unexpected shutdown

[Colin Law]

On 3 September 2013 05:51, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 06:03:29 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Yeah, but since the pc rebooted, it's probably something to do with USB,
> since that coincided.

Quite possibly, or it could be the extra load from the USB that tipped
the PSU over the edge, particularly if it was an external disc for
example that needs a fair amount of power.

Colin