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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 18:44:43 +0000, Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> wrote:
> how would I check that?
> and yes, cd works fine...

Get a beefier PSU and try http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/.

> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 07:37:22 -0600, Jim King <jim@jimking.net> wrote:
> > I made a Memtest86 bootable CD.  Does your CD drive work?
> >
> > Check your power supply.  I had similar problems, and it turned out the
> > extra power used during heavy disk I/O AND heavy CPU usage caused the
> > power supply to flake out.  It caused all sorts of strange symptoms,
> > which all went away when the new power supply was installed.
> >
> > Ben Haysom wrote:
> >
> > >hi
> > >
> > >I have a problem with 5.3 FreeBSD on my Duron 700 mhz 512 Mb ram 200 gig HD.
> > >
> > >It currently reboots itself (without shutting down) before finishing a
> > >portupgrade -a.
> > >
> > >I was advised to test the memory and CPU (which I did using memtest
> > >and cpuburn - couldn't use memtest86 coz my floppy drive is busted)
> > >and they both seem fine. memtest did seem to struggle at the start.
> > >
> > >Next I've gone for fsck - seemed fine once it had fixed the errors
> > >(various switches -f and -y) but I'm not 100% sure of this.
> > >
> > >Any advice?
> > >
> > >Ben.

-- 
tommi harkonen