Gentoo 2004.1 Random Restart

methosrage · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 4 Location: NEXUS-Prime

Hello folks. I was wondering after doing a Stage3 install of Gentoo 2004.1 using the Gentoo Source kernel configured by the Genkernel script caused any problems on a the first, second and third booting of the system. Problems like random restarting after the system is booted and sitting at the login prompt, or after logging in the system will randomly restart.

Now I know that my hardware is fine because I nuked Mandrake, and it was running fine, and Windows just loves my system, but if you must know this is my hardware configuration, maybe Gentoo just hates me.

Motherboard: MSI 865PE Neo-2
Processor: Intel P4 2.6 Ghz w/ Hyper Threading
Graphics Card: MSI nVidia Geforce FX 5600
HD: Western Digital 160 GIG w/ 8MB Cache
DVDROM: HP DVD Writer 300i
RAM: 512 DDR 400
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I am so fricken angry right now, damn it.....

SlicerDicer · Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

You know this is just speculation now from personal experience. When I installed gentoo on my 1.4ghz box windows loved it! But as I put on gentoo it usto constantly die for no aparent reason I later learned I had a bad powersupply that would go beserk if too much power was drawn... It could be that Gentoo is requesting too much power and its just restarting it by way of running out of watts. Just a thought.
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