I recently installed openSUSE 11 on my Toshiba laptop. I am not entirely sure why, but it seems that the system gets overloaded and the computer will just shut itself down. No screen or warning, just drops everything and I have to hit the power button to turn it back on. The laptop came with Vista on it, so I expected some kind of compatibility issues. I have never seen this before though.
Centrino Dual core
4gb Memory
Intel 965 chipset
1EvilGenius adjusted his/her AFDB on Saturday 16 May 2009 06:26 to write:
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> I recently installed openSUSE 11 on my Toshiba laptop. I am not entirely
> sure why, but it seems that the system gets overloaded and the computer
> will just shut itself down. No screen or warning, just drops everything
> and I have to hit the power button to turn it back on. The laptop came
> with Vista on it, so I expected some kind of compatibility issues. I
> have never seen this before though.
>
> Centrino Dual core
> 4gb Memory
> Intel 965 chipset
>
>
If you are in KDE/Gnome press Ctrl+Esc to bring up the process monitor and
see if anything is hogging all the CPU ot running amok eating all the mem,
if you see anything then post it here.
Mark
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With no programs running everything says 0%. If I open up the programs I use regularly, Banshee says 2% and Monsoon hovers around the 20% area. The only thing I have noticed that it does right before it crashes is the music will stop, then it crashes. Earlier it did it and I had enough time to just reboot the system before it crashed.
Looks to me like it’s just overheating.
In this case, are you using additional boot parameters?
Have you tried to type
acpi=off
at the boot screen?
1EvilGenius adjusted his/her AFDB on Sunday 17 May 2009 01:26 to write:
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> With no programs running everything says 0%. If I open up the programs I
> use regularly, Banshee says 2% and Monsoon hovers around the 20% area.
> The only thing I have noticed that it does right before it crashes is
> the music will stop, then it crashes. Earlier it did it and I had enough
> time to just reboot the system before it crashed.
>
>
Anything in the logs?
/var/log/messages, warn, xorg… etc (not a log just mean any of the
others ) 
If this is a sound related one ( got a hunch, just call me quasi ) then
disable all system notifications on your desktop, see if the machine runs OK
without them.
my thinking is you might have either your sound configured slightly wrong or
pulse is having a fit on something.
HTH
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Mark
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