Laptop suddenly turned off

Jon Savage jonathansavage at gmail.com
Wed Nov 24 14:24:07 UTC 2004


> I have some problems sinc FC3test2. With every kernel since test2
> sometimes laptop plugged to AC outlet or battery supplied turns off.
> It works at random times, but today, after upgrading to
> 2.6.9-1.681_FC3
>  the laptop turned off 4 times in 1 hour. It is too much.
> I've just been working in gnome (configuring sound or network) when it
> took place.
> How to fight this? I have now FC3 final (clean install).
I had the same behaviour on my laptop. After a little troubleshooting
it turned out
that one of my memory sticks had gone bad. Try running memtest, I
believe that is an option from cd 1.
-- 
Bests,
Jon




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