What the?!?!?!? Reboot out of nowhere!

[sloopy]

another possibility is the kernel panic'ed because of something ( a cron
job, etc...) and when this happens the kernel reboots in 180 seconds.
this may have been caused by a variation in things inside ( p/s is
common ) 


sloopy.


On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 14:31, Dakidd wrote:
> >> So I'm sitting here in front of my PM 7500 running MacOS 9.1, using it as
> >a
> >> TV set to watch "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", when my PM 7600 running
> >
> >> YDL 3.0, which is sitting just to the right of the 7500, idle, nobody
> >> logged on, with the monitor powered down, goes "BONG!" for no detectable
> >
> >> reason.
> >
> >
> >Most likely dirty power.  Possible that your motherboard or
> >power supply are going out, but most likely there was some dirty power on
> >the wire and your power supply either protected you from a slight surge, or
> >took a break with not enough juice to work with.  And yeah, some power
> >supplies
> >can be more sensitive than others, which could explain why your other system
> >was fine.
> 
> I'd find this idea a lot easier to accept if, as has always been the case
> in the past during "power troubles" (*RELATIVELY* common, as far out in the
> boonies as I am), the 7500 and the lights "twitched". The 7500 has always
> (for me at least) been the "touchier" machine when it comes to power issues
> - If there's trouble on the power line, it has always been the machine that
> glitches first, alerting me to trouble, and giving me warning that I
> probably want to yank plugs out of the wall quick if I want to keep the
> other hardware from getting hit by something ugly. Not this time. The 7600
> has always been the "tank" of my collection - NOTHING phases it. But it was
> the only hardware in the house that so much as flickered. Even the lights
> (which frequently start showing visible flickering with just a 10 volt
> "wiggle" on the line) remained dead-steady, and the fridge, which literally
> shrieks when we get a power-glitch, ran on rock-steady.
> 
> Guess I'll have to chalk this one up to "Who knows what happened?"
> 
> Don Bruder -  dakidd at sonic.net      <--- Preferred Email - unmunged
> I will choose a path that's clear: I will choose Free Will! - N. Peart
> 
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