My computer shut itself down...

[GanChan]

My Mini just spontaneously shut itself off in the middle of a web-browsing session. It didn't go to sleep from non-use, because I was actively using it.

I hit the power button and it rebooted fine, except Camino was now unable to connect to any websites. So i shut down/rebooted again and now everything seems fine.

No surges or other electrical problems, as far as I know. No other components lost power.

It's never done this before. How do I troubleshoot it? Or do you know what it might be? Cable modem glitch of some kind?

 

[Eidorian]

Which model of Mac mini?

 

[kick52]

Log file?

(cat /var/log/system.log)

 

[GanChan]

Which model of Mac mini?

Stock $499 PPC Mini from 2005. Running OS 10.3.9.

 

[Eidorian]

Stock $499 PPC Mini from 2005.

Alright, I've noticed a rash of weird power supply issues in the current Core 2 Mac mini.

 

[GanChan]

Alright, I've noticed a rash of weird power supply issues in the current Core 2 Mac mini.

Do tell. I was thinking of buying one of those. I'd be interested in any buggy-ness they are having.

 

[Eidorian]

Do tell. I was thinking of buying one of those. I'd be interested in any buggy-ness they are having.

A few of the Core 2 minis worked fine for about a month and then had power adapter issues. I swapped them with the Core Duo adapters and they worked just fine.

I got replacement adapters though from Apple for the Core 2 models.

 

[decksnap]

Do tell. I was thinking of buying one of those. I'd be interested in any buggy-ness they are having.

I wouldn't worry about it. Some macbooks as well any and all G5s also had 'rashes' of random shutdown syndrome. I don't think it too widespread or too limited to any single system.

 

[kwood]

Could you have kicked the power cord? Or switched off the power bar? I used to do that all the time annoying as I'll get out.