Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:49:41 -0500 From: Jason Hunt <leth@primus.ca> To: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <20030328044941.GA428@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de> References: <BAA49A98.4698%ukla@attbi.com> <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org> <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de>
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On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > > > >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. > This is off topic (sort of), but out of curiosity, could problems like that on a motherboard cause problems relating to memory? If so, I bet this explains my problems at work lately with an NT4 server giving me the BSOD all the time with memory errors.
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