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Date:      Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:41:22 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off
Message-ID:  <20060816084122.GB727@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <p06230907c107cae42bf2@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Tue, 2006-Aug-15 15:32:55 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>It ended up that something had gone wrong with the
>motherboard itself.  It was about two months from the
>time I first started to see problems to the point
>where it completely died.  It was a very frustrating
>two months!

On two occasions, I've had hardware fail _during_ an upgrade.
The first time it was obvious because the system crashed.  The
second time, a PCMCIA modem just stopped working at exactly the
same time as I upgraded my kernel.  That took a lot of head-
scratching before I twigged.

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Peter Jeremy

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