Virtanen, a friend of mine has similar problems -- his pentium II needs mounting brackets to hold it to the motherboard, and he hasn't bought them yet.
It might not help, but ... one never knows. :) On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 08:57:51AM +0300, virtanen wrote: > > Managed to get this damn machine working with debian quite long time. > Even managed to get network working (ethernet). > > '1) Suddently again, while editing a picture using SO 5.1 the power went > off. > > 2) While trying to boot again it gave the normal messages like 'not > cleanly unmounted, check forced' etc. Then again sudden shut-off. This > happened three times while trying to boot. The fourth time worked and it > managed to check the partitions... Now it has been working again. > > 3) > There isn't any overclocked CPU or anything like that. > As far as I know this thing has never happened with this machine with > windows. > I put most bios settings as defaults. APM disabled as well as all shadow > ram settings disabled. Power-button override disabled. > > Still don't know, where the problem is. Just waiting for the next > shut-off... > > In my opinion it (shit) happens, when there is some large swapping going > on. > The machine has got atx-boxand automatic shut-off of the power, when > shutting down windows. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!