Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:29 +0100 From: Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net> To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware problems or Software problems Message-ID: <20040325154829.GA93153@pleiades.aeternal.net> In-Reply-To: <20040325001226.9E37.LUKEK@meibin.net> References: <20040325001226.9E37.LUKEK@meibin.net>
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--yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Luke, I would try to find some kind of burn test utility which will test your har= dware. As for memory, there is Memtest86 memory test, and for harddrives there are= many vendor utilities, which can make a really deep tests. cheers, Martin On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 12:18:41AM +0900, Luke Kearney (lukek@meibin.net) w= rote: > Hello, >=20 > I have a server which recently died on me. I believed that the problem > was likely the memory as the machine would reboot of its own accord > initially when accessing via samba or NFS. Then I noticed that it would > reboot when under no load. Given that the motherboard and CPU etc was > pushing three years old it seemed like a good opportunity to upgrade to > some newer kit I had. I installed a new ASUS P4800 motherboard with a > celeron 2.20ghz chip and brandnew 512mb memory.=20 >=20 > Now again whilst under no load at all it will freeze. The only original > parts are the HDD's. My difficulty is that nothing is left in the logs > or on std out.=20 >=20 > If it is the disks I will reluctantly replace but I cannot see why disks > would cause a reboot and leave nothing logged such as a time out or > anything.=20 --=20 =3D-- : :. kind regards :.. Martin Hudec :.: :.: :m: +421.907.303393 :.: :@: corwin@aeternal.net :.: :w: http://www.aeternal.net --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAYv9MZYEZIv+rgggRAhPxAJ98TVCYnRb/p/1txG5NaEfzMgeJFgCeIRYw o+9B8lWiqtKDzRQu4dEsDu0= =ypWr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--
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