Help! Random reboots after booting
Hi,
Recently, for the last month or so, I have been suffering my computer
occasionally rebooting on bootup. I only found out for sure today, because I
normally let my computer get on with booting whilst I make a cup of tea, etc.
It seems to occur as soon as X starts - the cursor is frozen as soon as the
graphics are initialised, and then the computer simply resets. It only ever
seems to do this once after which it is fine, with one exception of earlier
today, when it froze and reset after being on for about five minutes.
I have grepped /var/logs and there doesn't seem to be any kernel panics, nor
does syslog, messages, etc. show up anything out of the ordinary occuring
when the computer reboots.
The only other hint that I have to what might be happening is that my cd
writer appears to spin up for several seconds and spin down, but since I have
only witnessed it first hand once, I'm not certain that this doesn't occur
after the computer has already crashed.
I'm using Debian Woody/Unstable with the 2.4.17 kernel, PII 350Mhz, 128 meg
ram,
cat /proc/pci shows my video card to be :
ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 92).
I'm not sure what other details I can give that might help explain my problem.
If anyone can help me, I'd be very grateful.
Cheers,
Jason
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