[Lancaster] Help! Netbook keeps rebooting!

[jonath]

Well, of course, it's hard to say what's wrong without having the
netbook in front of me but my gut feeling is this sounds like a
hardware issue. This is exactly the kind of thing (more or less) my
laptop does when it gets too hot. Plus, given that you've already had
to send this machine back, perhaps you still have a duff machine on
your hands. Does the reboot happen after any particular activity (e.g.
during CD access, after running a certain application, after the
cooling fan kicks in) or is it entirely random?

But regardless of all that conjecture, it should be fairly
straightforward to rule out the operating system if you get hold of
one of those live/evaluation CDs. I've used Knoppix before; they seem
okay:

http://www.knoppix.net/

regards,

jonathan

2009/7/29 Ken Walton <ken.walton at carandol.net>:
> It came with Ubuntu Netbook Remix pre-installed, and I've been happy with
> that so far, especially as it has the correct kernel for the Atom chip and a
> Toshiba repository for the right hardware drivers. Besides, I'm copy-editing
> on a deadline, so taking an afternoon off to install a new OS would be
> counterproductive! :-)
> So far, it hasn't crashed since I changed to the Vesa driver, but it's early
> hours yet...
> 2009/7/29 Wayne Ward <wayne at lancastercomputers.co.uk>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
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> Ken Walton
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