unexpected shutdown

[Ric Moore]

On 09/02/2013 03:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 1 September 2013 23:16, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> In my experience if a machine just shuts down with nothing in the logs
> immediately prior to the shutdown then there is a hardware problem of
> some sort (by which I mean not software).  Often it is the PSU (power
> supply) that has a fault.

Right, it's the failure to complete boot on an IRQ error that blows my 
mind. It's like trying to find an intermittent fault in a wiring 
problem. Damn machine is about 80 miles from here too. Ric



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