Spontaneous Shutdowns

Eric Dannewitz yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Apr 14 13:13:01 2004


Yeah, I had something like this going on with my Quicksilver 2002. I 
think it is overheating as well. It would, in OS X, give a message Apple 
PMU::Forced shutdown -122............


Norberto Quintanar wrote:

>The cube had this problem with spontaneous shutdowns, it was due to
>overheating.  
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>--- Brian Mayton <brian-lists@ilabrats.org> wrote:
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>>Does anyone here have any guesses as to what might be happening?
>>
>>The machine is a PowerMac G4 with somewhere around 640MB RAM and a
>>pair 
>>of 120 GB drives with Yellow Dog 3.0.  I can't remember the exact
>>specs 
>>(and I can't get them now since the machine is down) but I do
>>remember 
>>that it looks like the original G4s with the pinstripe pattern, and
>>it 
>>has an internal firewire port on the motherboard.  It's either 450
>>or 
>>500 MHz. This is the second machine I've tried (with the same hard 
>>disks and installation of YDL).  The first one was also a G4, but
>>was 
>>lacking the internal firewire port.  Both machines did the
>>spontaneous 
>>shutdown thing.
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Brian
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