My partner's box would just randomly reboot, he found out that his video card (
I think it was a diamond viper..) wasn't compatible with his motherboard and
processor, an AMD 400Mhz. He got a new video card and all was fine. It hasn't
done it since.

~j


Ben Lutgens wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:32:31AM -0600, mjn wrote:
> >
> >I even logged in this morning prior to that boot time and the machine did
> >boot but there were no screen message to indicate that it was a propper
> >restart.  My ssh connection just stopped responding...might this be a
> >hardware problem?
>
> If the machine is working hard and the fans are crappy or don't function, it
> could be rebooting when it gets hot. Some bioses will do this.
>
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