On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Pete Theisen wrote:
> Eben King wrote:
>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010, Pete Theisen wrote:
>>
>>> It is getting to the point where Ubuntu 9.04 reboots without my asking it
>>> to every day. I can be sitting right at the console, there is no sign of a
>>> power fluctuation - and I have an UPS anyway, there is a reboot without
>>> any sign that it is coming.
>>
>> If you can set a script that periodically [1] pulls sensor data [2] and
>> stores them [5] for on-demand graphing, that may provide a clue. I had a
>> motheboard [3] whose onboard voltage regulator died so that some important
>> voltage [4] fluctuated, and occasionally produced the symptoms you see.
>>
>> [1] say once every 5s
>>
>> [2] specifically voltages
>>
>> [3] BP6 IIRC
>>
>> [4] not +5v or +12v
>>
>> [5] for a day or a week
>
> This is an Intel D845GEBV2 with a P IV 1.7, I guess 8 or so years old. Would
> it have those kind of sensors?
Might. Run lm-sensors and see. If they exist and the BIOS has an area
where you can read them but lm-sensors can't, you can stare at that for a
while and manually spot any fluctuations.
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