[clue-tech] Spontaneously rebooting laptop

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On 9/27/06, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hm, looks like I may be returning this laptop, although I'd like to
> determine the cause if possible. It's Costco, so I doubt I have to build a
> case or anything due to their policy.

Costco's return policy rocks.

> Here is the symptom: I run dvd::rip, and start to transcode a movie, and
> somewhere during the transcode step, the laptop reboots. At first I thought
> it *might* have been because I put the duo core kernel linux-smp-686 on, so
> I tried booting with the original ubuntu kernel and ran transcode again -
> eventually it happens again. In fact, I haven't been able to transcode
> any long movie. Transcode is pretty CPU intensive.

Is it possible that the laptop is overheating and rebooting for that
reason? I have a laptop that has spontaneously shut down a handful of
times, and each time it's been *really* hot.

Best,

Zonker
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