t42 restarted overnight

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katman · #1 Post by **katman** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 1:45 pm

hi,
i leave my t42 on overnight all the time. for some reason yesterday, it restarted in the middle of the night. does anyone know why this might happen? also, how can i figure out what made it restart, is there a log of some kind? thanks...

Steve007 · #2 Post by **Steve007** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 3:23 pm

katman wrote:hi,
i leave my t42 on overnight all the time. for some reason yesterday, it restarted in the middle of the night. does anyone know why this might happen? also, how can i figure out what made it restart, is there a log of some kind? thanks...

Hmm, weird. Very unlikely, but overheating perhaps? Did something you had running crash and brought the machine down? What about Gremlins?

Bob Collins · #3 Post by **Bob Collins** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:11 pm

Do you have Windows Update running?

If so, some of the updates demand a restart and will restart overnight, however it usually does a pop-up to let you know what it did.

Other than that, I would guess heat or a funky driver file bombing out.

ian · #4 Post by **ian** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:44 pm

I couldn't agree more Bob, but the pure science in your post made me laugh - I quote "heat or a funky driver file bombing out" - priceless...

Bob Collins · #5 Post by **Bob Collins** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:51 pm

As I was typing it I kind of laughed too, but figured it made sense. Many of us have used Windows enough to know, technically, what a "funky driver file" actually is or at least how it operates.

I guess it does not reflect well on the forum when you get an obtuse answer as such! My apologies to Bill and all the good people here.

DavidNZ · #6 Post by **DavidNZ** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:01 pm

You know, with a snappy bassline and some good ol' fashioned Roland 909 beats, "heat or a funky driver file bombing out" could sound quite cool...

ian · #7 Post by **ian** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 2:35 am

Bob, please don't misunderstand me - I was certainly NOT criticising - I admire people who can REALLY use words, and as such am often caught by phrases and outbursts - your comment was straight off-the-cuff and as such perfectly adapted to the discussion in hand.

Another case of:-

Whistler: "I wish I'd said that"
Friend: "Oh you will, Whistler, you will"

Bob Collins · #8 Post by **Bob Collins** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:16 am

ian wrote:Bob, please don't misunderstand me - I was certainly NOT criticising - I admire people who can REALLY use words, and as such am often caught by phrases and outbursts - your comment was straight off-the-cuff and as such perfectly adapted to the discussion in hand.

Ian, no misunderstanding at all!

I was going a little bit more with an extra dose of tounge-in-cheek sarcasm.

I am quite glad you found it funny. Sometimes I slam it into gear and go before the light is actually green, if you know what I mean.

It does however remind me of a time when a buddy and I were in the same architectural firm. He wrote a little lisp routine to make a bunch of tiny text files with a string of gobbledgook (sp?) in them, and place them in the root of the C:\ whenever a new drawing file was opened with AutoCAD. The joy was that you could tweak the lisp to place files elsewhere of course, and you could randomly call them <something>.dll and place them int the windows folder. This also had the ability to be quite insidious if you set the replication number low and the directory an odd one that Windows does often use, preferably a hidden folder.

Well, it would really dog a machine as the folder got fatter and fatter with useless files that had to read to list a directory. Oh yes, it was not so randomly named, but rather incremented, hence the directory had to be listed prior to writing the new junk files. Where is this story going you ask, I am trying to wrap it up, but I am not known for my brevity.

Anyhow, we would occasionally bomb someone for fun and it was relatively easly to clean through the network without them knowing what you did. Anyhow, after reviewing this lisp and seeing it work, I coined the phrase: "Self-Replicating-Balogne-Bag", which elicited a true guffaw from my friend. This was the type of guffaw that made every head pop-up from our half-height partitioned cubes. A real prairie dog moment, or whack a mole if you prefer.

Now I am truly sorry for wandering well off topic, and as such, we are off the map, and here be monsters.

Bob is now wrenching the helm, turning the steering wheel furiously, slamming the joystick, or carving a new path, back to the topic, we hope.

The tidbit I did forget in the previous post was, to ask if there were any updates other than the Windows update? Did the OP install any new software, get crammed with adware, scumware, or the like. And I would also posit hardware issues like bad ram, unseated ram, etc.

Bob Collins · #9 Post by **Bob Collins** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:17 am

DavidNZ wrote:You know, with a snappy bassline and some good ol' fashioned Roland 909 beats, "heat or a funky driver file bombing out" could sound quite cool...

Thank you. I am looking for the royalty checks already! Or at least I would like an MP3 of it to use as my new theme music!

ian · #10 Post by **ian** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 2:10 am

Nothing to do with this discussion - but I think you might like to take a look at the thread 'MSN Lawsuit'. The original poster is a guy with an unpronouncable name, born somewhere just after Venus, turn left etc. and who, with any luck, will be following Steve (Martin, who else) and will start using verbs soon in his posts on this forum.

I understand how one can get easily sidetracked, but this chaps rantings are a clear case of mental hijacking! By whom, I don't even really want to know - the gremlins at Dell? Entertaining on occasion.

Bob Collins · #11 Post by **Bob Collins** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 9:21 am

ian wrote: I understand how one can get easily sidetracked, but this chaps rantings are a clear case of mental hijacking! By whom, I don't even really want to know - the gremlins at Dell? Entertaining on occasion.

Hehehehehehe

Kenn · #12 Post by **Kenn** » Wed Dec 22, 2004 12:56 pm

To second the suggestion above: if you have "Automatic Updates" enabled, it will download, install, and reboot automatically (after giving you a 10-second notification countdown). This has happened to a few of my computers, and is most likely what's going on with yours.

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