Random reboot question

[ashok shankar das]

John Watlington wrote:

>Is it in any way likely that memory errors could lead an x86 system  
>to reboot ?
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Yes Tripple fault can make your system to reboot.

>In the past, I have worked with systems where this was possible (it  
>trapped
>unimplemented instructions to implement OS calls, one of which was  
>reboot).
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Few months back i experienced a strange situation.
When ever i plugged a perticular USB hard disk my laptop(Old TOSHIBA) 
refused to work

I could not understand why,

>I can't think of an equivalent situation with the laptop (i.e. a  
>modern kernel),
>even if it is the kernel itself faulting, can you ?
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>
Less likely a kernel fault.

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Ashok Shankar Das
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