Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Nope; the BIOS is not shutting down the laptop. > I paused the memtest for five minutes, and then let it continue; the > shutdown occurred five minutes later than it had been shutting down. How unfortunate because that would have been easier to handle. > So I restarted the mem

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-05 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS pow

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing. Weird... > The l

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:49:51PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > > of testing. > > If that is consistently 35 minutes then it

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
Bob Proulx wrote: Kent West wrote: Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS power saving setting

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. I am no expert in this area

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Kent West wrote: > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing. If that is consistently 35 minutes then it makes me wonder how the BIOS power saving settings are configured. I wo

Re: OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: > OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... > > > Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. > No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes > of testing. > I am no expert in this area. To understand the problem

OT: knoppix memtest powers off after 35 mins

2007-07-03 Thread Kent West
OT for Debian, but you folks are knowledgeable ... Running memtest86 from a Knoppix LiveCD on an HP pavilion ze4400 laptop. No errors, but the laptop powers off consistently after about 35 minutes of testing. The laptop does not power off when sitting at the Knoppix prompt (I enter some ran