On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:34:58PM -0500, jim scott wrote: > I think I left a key fact out of my original description. I can boot to the > SATA drive. Everything seems to work normally for an hour or more, then the > system spontaneously reboots and "loses" the SATA drive. Is it likely a > motherboard problem if the problem doesn't occur on first boot? If you take the IDE hard-disk out, for a day, does it improve the stability? (I know it used to work, let's find out if the damage is permanent). If that config is stable, try running with only the IDE disk. Find another one and do a clean install of your favorite distro and use that for a couple of days. Linux does not use the BIOS, so unless there is some severe hardware problem, I don't see what could cause spontaneous reboots. Does the machine have a serial port? Do you have another machine close by? You could try to set up a serial console, it should capture any last distress messages from the kernel before the panic/reboot, if it is aware of anything. florin -- There was a typo, but on the wrong page. -- Vipin Kumar -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060404/28ba428c/attachment.pgp