random shutdowns

[brian]

On 08/23/2009 01:53 PM, brian wrote:
> 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586
>
> Since yesterday, my computer has been shutting down randomly. Several
> times, I had walked away from the box with nothing special running. I
> thought it might be a hardware issue, checked connections, etc.
>

Just happened again. One thing I forgot to mention is that hitting the 
power button causes the fans to spin up (and, I think, the drives) but 
the monitor stays blank and there's no POST beep. I have to hold the 
button in until the box shuts down again before I can get it to boot 
properly. That seems to me to be a suspend problem.

Anyway, as this is a desktop box, I decided to remove it altogether. I 
edited /boot/grub/menu.lst, changing:

title Fedora (2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586.img

to:

title Fedora (2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 ro 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet acpi=no apm=off noapic nolapic
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586.img

I'll reboot and see if the problem goes away. I'd appreciate any 
comments if I'm barking up the wrong tree.