<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"> --- On Wed, 12/2/09, Gordon <gbplinux@gmail.com> wrote: <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> From: Gordon <gbplinux@gmail.com> Subject: 9.10 problem To: ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 8:01 AM <div class="plainMail">I have a problem with 9.10 on my Toshiba L40 Satellite 2GB RAM, dual core T2330 1.6GHz processors which I don't /think/ happened with 9.04. Every so often, randomly, there's a loud "click" and the machine instantly switches off. Happens with the kernel that ships with 9.10, and the updated kernel. The same doesn't happen with Windows 7 on the same machine - dual boot. Anyone had this? Any fix for it? Maybe something in you logs could help. Not much to go on now. It sounds like perhaps a hardware issue except that windows doesn't do it. Perhaps a bad partition on the Karmic install. There are tools to check out the HDD; smartmontools which I just installed but haven't used it. You could do an fsck on the unmounted partition. This can cause disk corruption so be sure you read up on it first and know what you are doing. Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570@sbcglobal.net </div></blockquote></td></tr></table>