A little off topic but I hope someone can shed some light

[Colin Law]

On 8 September 2010 04:24, Vic Main <vmain at shaw.ca> wrote:
> At 07:08 PM 09/07/10, you wrote:
>
> I have an HP Pavilion Notebook model 6324US.
> The machine will not reboot.  What I mean by this, it shuts off, powers back
> up, but never even gets to the BIOS stuff.
> I have to turn it off.  Close the lid, wait various amounts of time before
> it will start again.
> Now, I'm running 10.04.1 very successfully so there are not a lot of time I
> have to restart, but non the less, it is VERY frustrating!
>
> Any clues would be greatly appreciated!
> --
> Matt Anderson
> 9712216800c at gmail.com
> (971) 248-0870
> John 8:32
>
> This sounds like a heat problem to me, possibly a fan has gone,
> the processor gets to a preset temperature limit and the internal protection
> turns on and shuts it down.
>  This is so that the chips don't destroy themselves.
> The clue that's most important is that you have to wait.

I don't think the OP meant that it shuts down by itself.  I think that
what he means is that if he asks it to restart then it appears to
close down Ubuntu, the screen goes blank, and then it just hangs
instead of the BIOS starting up.

A question, if you ask it to shutdown (rather than restart) does it
shut down and power off ok?  If so then I would agree that it is
likely a hardware problem.  If not then it is not that it does not
restart, but that it is not shutting down properly, and is hanging
during the shutdown.

Colin