[Gllug] Diagnosing hardware faults

[j.roberts]

On 28/11/10 17:39, Tethys wrote:
>
> I believe one of my machines to have developed a hardware fault.
> It intermittently[1] exhibits one of three behaviours:
>
> - Spontaneous reboot
> - Hung machine, {caps,num}lock LEDs work, magic SysRq works
> - Hung machine, {caps,num}lock LEDs don't work, magic SysRq doesn't work

Check the CPU heatsink (and machine generally) for dust/good airflow.

These symptoms suggest overheating to me.

MeJ

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