FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE: Unexplained power off

[Peter Jeremy]

On Tue, 2006-Aug-15 15:32:55 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>It ended up that something had gone wrong with the
>motherboard itself.  It was about two months from the
>time I first started to see problems to the point
>where it completely died.  It was a very frustrating
>two months!

On two occasions, I've had hardware fail _during_ an upgrade.
The first time it was obvious because the system crashed.  The
second time, a PCMCIA modem just stopped working at exactly the
same time as I upgraded my kernel.  That took a lot of head-
scratching before I twigged.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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