Re: [cobalt-users] Rebooting problem?

["Troy Fridley" <tfridley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi All,
>
> Last couple of days my cobalt raq4i has been rebooting itself without me
> telling it too. Nothing shows up in the alert box to indicate a problem.
> In the most recent reboot, I was adding someone to a listserv and then I
was
> locked out and the machine rebooted. Any ideas?
>

We have seen this issue as the result of multiple problems, the first and
most common is Fan Failure or Bad RAM.  The far worse cause has been caps on
the motherboard going bad. We have lost 2 RaQ4's to this particular issue
over the years, if you have physical access to the machine pull the cover
and check the fans.  While your in there make a close visual inspection of
all the capacitors, make sure they are not domed or split, pay particular
attention to the ones located around the CPU socket.

-Troy