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   Andreas Buchinger to All   
   Re: Strange T43p Behaviour - Random Powe   
   30 Dec 10 10:51:25   
   
   Gecko/20081111 SeaMonkey/1.1.13 Mnenhy/0.7.6.0   
   From: Andreas Buchinger    
      
   Eric Erickson wrote:   
   > I've got an old T43p  (2669H2U) that I've installed eCS V2.0 GA on. Now the   
   > strange thing is that it seems to randomly power off after sitting idle for a   
   > while. It has run as long as days or as short as 15 minutes before it doing   
   > it. It will be running along fine and just turn it self off. This is not a   
   > shutdown or trap. I sat and watched it once just to see how it behaves and it   
   > just turned it self off, screen went blank and the power/activity lights just   
   > went dark, just as if I had pulled the battery out. Push the power button and   
   > it comes right back on, re-booting of course, along with a chkdsk of any HPFS   
   > formatted partitions.    
   >    
   >    
   > Now the funny thing is that this machine runs XP just fine with out   
   > exhibiting the same issue. I'm pretty clueless at the moment on how to   
   > proceed trying to figure this out.    
   >    
   > Any ideas would be appreciated.    
   >    
   > TIA    
   >    
   >    
   > Eric Erickson   
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   As XP runs I would test with something like 'cpuburn' if it is a temperature    
   problem.   
      
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