From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 17:11:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F124737B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:11:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (gemini.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1759E43FAF for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 17:11:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wh-wurm.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h2S1BYVT026887 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 28 Mar 2003 02:11:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:28:53 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030302 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Warwick References: <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-20.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY,QUOTE_TWICE_1,REFERENCES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:11:46 -0000 > > >If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty >hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that >spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it >could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, >as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does not >necessarily mean it is problem-free. > Look especially for the condensators on the motherboard. There is a wide-spread problem with a Taiwanese company having produced bad electrolyte. The resulting condensators are found in motherboards of nearly all manufacturers and (as I can say out of my own experience) give exactly the behaviour, you described. Ciao Siegbert