On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... > > 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. Weird... > The laptop does not power off when sitting at the Knoppix prompt (I > enter some random character or two to prevent time-out default boot), > nor does it power off after 35 minutes at the Windows (yech!) login > prompt or within Knoppix when it's running from the LiveCD. > > I've not seen any odd behaviour when running Knoppix, and very limited > oddness when running Windows (yet a couple of small things - easily > attributable to Windows flakiness); :-) Difficult to tell sometimes :-) > the guy who owns the laptop says it has frozen on him a few times and >wouldn't power up once until left alone a couple of hours. As if "it needed a rest"? > After spending a couple of days with the laptop, my gut instinct is that > the hardware is fine, but this consistent auto-poweroff 35 minutes into > a memtest86 run (with default parameters) raises a yellow flag in my brain. > > Anyone have any knowledge if maybe memtest86 might be triggering a > shut-down code, or if it's running into a bad memory cell? Perhaps the poor thing is overheating? Are the fans going during memtest? I presume that both Knoppix and Windows plays nice with ACPI and (probably) fans, but I suspect that memtest86 couldn't care less... Just a derailed brain... -- Karl E. Jorgensen karl@jorgensen.org.uk http://www.jorgensen.org.uk/ karl@jorgensen.com http://karl.jorgensen.com ==== Today's fortune: TANSTAAFL
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