Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

[Dougie Nisbet <dougie@highmoor.co.uk>]

David Jardine wrote:


> "Tucked away in the loft", you say.  Is dust building up somewhere 
> along your power supply line?  In a multiple-socket extension, 
> perhaps.  A long shot, but I once had this problem.  I think the 
> dust caused momentary short circuits, not long enough to blow a fuse 
> but long enough to cut the power to the computer, while the dust 
> burnt away - but I'm no electrician.
>
> Cheers,
> David

It's certainly a possibility. I don't think it's running too hot though. 
Once while wondering how to increase ventilation I realised that leaving 
the sides of might help! And the harddrives have a slot empty spacing 
between them. According to xmbmom the mobo and cpu never go above 28C. 
Of course, having no case to protect it does leave it exposed, but it 
*looks* pretty clean.

Dougie