unexpected shutdown

[Ric Moore]

On 09/01/2013 04:43 PM, thufir wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 21:08:47 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>
>
>> Run memtest for as long as you can.  If it shows any problems, or if the
>> machine shuts down then you have a hardware problem, possibly an
>> overheating problem.
>
> Ok, I'll try that later. I think it's a bad USB port.
>
> Just a few minutes ago I plugged in a USB cable, *nothing* attached to
> the cable, and the pc just shutdown -- boom.
>
> Thanks for the quick response.

I'm getting a similar problem where the machine just shuts down, then 
complains of an IRQ issue, at times, during boot. Heh, I thought DOS was 
dead. :) Ric



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