In this thread: Lots of people criticizing a perfectly valid first diagnostic step that they all use frequently. Yes, we all know that it's not a FIX for some long term problem, but frequently you're looking at a simple confluence of rare events that caused an issue that can be resolved by resetting the system to a known state. If the issue continues with a frequency that is troubling, then you move on to other steps, but if you fire up a kernel debugger and bus sniffer every time you have a minor glitch, you're wasting time. And I wager everyone commenting otherwise knows that.