Spontaneous Reboot

[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:25:42AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply, but that's not it.  The machine was for
> approximately 10 minutes at the time of the failure.  The CPU is a Duron
> 600.  Is there anywhere that the kernel would log a message along the
> lines of "What th-" besides /var/log/messages?

If the CPU fan has stopped spinning, it might even be called surprising that
it managed to last 10 minutes.  It is "only" a Duron 600, though, so 10
minutes might be just about right.

I've heard reports of Athlons dying in under 10 seconds when the heatsink
has fallen off.

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