Spontaneous hard shutdown -- cause?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Feb 7 20:31:59 UTC 2012


On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 12:07:39PM -0800, William Park wrote:
> For few days now, I'm having spontaneous shutdown.  Not a reboot,
> but just sudden power down with no log to tell what happened.
> No problem with hydro.  Just before the shutdown, I hear some
> relay being triggered in the power supply.  It's the same sound
> you'd normally hear in the normal shutdown.
> 
> So, I'm thinking bad motherboard.  Has anyone encountered this
> kind of symptom before?

Overheating?  Fan failure?

Could be bad power supply or bad motherboard.

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