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From: Andrew Hoffman <andy.hoffman12@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss!
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:48:28
Message-Id: CAKqv15RdQnBKHhq=QaWJY+Kc=nfdJgJ_nyg1TGEG2xMrH9nqrA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss! by Willie
1 Sounds like it could be a hardware issue. Does it do the same thing inside
2 Windows? It might be overheating. Check for dust and proper cpu/powersupply
3 fan operation.
4
5
6 On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Willie <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
7
8 > Hey Everyone,
9 >
10 > I have been dealing with this problem for awhile now. It seems that
11 > whenever I am in Linux my computer will just turn off. Not shutdown like I
12 > did "shutdown -r now". Just completely off out of the blue at random times.
13 > I have been reading the logs but there is nothing helpful at all. It is
14 > never the same thing on the logs when it does just shutdown. Sometime I can
15 > boot up and it will go off when it says "Waiting for udev events to finish"
16 > or something like that.
17 >
18 > I haven't done any major upgrades in awhile, there is really nothing
19 > different. I installed Windows last night to see if it is a hardware thing
20 > but nope it stays on. I also tried reinstalling Gentoo on a couple of
21 > occasions on another Hard Drive but it just shutdown while I was getting it
22 > done.
23 >
24 > Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't want to be in Windows
25 > after I spent all that time customizing my XFCE4 desktop.
26 >
27 > --
28 >
29 > Willie Matthews
30 > matthews.willie@×××××.com
31 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Unexpected Power Loss! Willie <matthews.willie@×××××.com>