[Lancaster] Help! Netbook keeps rebooting!

[Wayne Ward]

I know this might sound silly but have you tried another distro just to 
see if it does it with that
have you had suse on it before??..

regards
wayne

Ken Walton wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I wondered if any of you nice people could help me. In the last couple 
> of days, my netbook -- a Toshiba NB100 running Ubuntu Hardy Heron 
> Netbook Remix -- has suddenly started rebooting randomly. The screen 
> suddenly goes black and it goes to the bootup screen, but then comes 
> up with a message that Ubuntu can't detect the display correctly and 
> asks if I want to continue in a minimal graphics mode or shut down. If 
> I shut down, it boots up fine the next time. It did this about four 
> times yesterday, and has done it three times already this morning.
>
> I don't know if it's a hardware problem or a software problem and I 
> don't understand linux logs well enough to gain anything meaningful 
> from them. This is my only computer, and I've got a pile of 
> copy-editing I'm supposed to get finished this week, so I'm hoping 
> it's an easily fixed software glitch. I've only had the machine about 
> 3 months and it's already had to go back for repair once after the 
> whole thing went completely dead. 
>
> Any (not too technical!) suggestions gratefully accepted!
> -- 
> Ken Walton
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Wayne ward

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