On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:49:51PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > > of testing. > > If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the > BIOS power saving settings are configured. I would guess that the > BIOS is not seeing any input and therefore turning the machine off > because it thinks it is idle. I believe that after the OS is booted > it takes over these things. But memtest may not be programmed to do > this for that machine while the linux kernel in knoppix does. > > Just a guess... I agree with this. It bears some digging into the bios. A
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