[ALUG] Re: Re: System shutting itself down but I can't see why

[cl at isbd.net]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:19:34AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
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> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 22:20 +0000, cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:57:30PM -0000, Ted Harding wrote:
> > > On 30-Oct-06 cl at isbd.net wrote:
> > > > My Slackware 11 keeps shutting itself down but I can't see why.
> > > > 
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> Does pressing the power button trigger a shutdown event via ACPI on your
> machine, is it possible that the power button is intermittent short or
> even just getting stuck ?
> 
You were nearly right - see my post last night.  There was a whisker
of solder shorting out the reset button to the case, it occasionally
moved enough to 'unshort' the button and caused a reset.  I found this
when I decided to investigate why the reset button wasn't working.

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Chris Green (chris at halon.org.uk)