From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 25 07:48:14 2004 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 A8C1016A4CE for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:48:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwall.in.markiza.sk (fwall.in.markiza.sk [62.168.76.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4182343D2F for ; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:48:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from corwin@pleiades.aeternal.net) Received: from pleiades.aeternal.net (pleiades.in.markiza.sk [192.168.13.7]) by fwall.in.markiza.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65B8223038; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:14 +0100 (CET) Received: from pleiades.aeternal.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pleiades.aeternal.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114C517050; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:30 +0100 (CET) Received: (from corwin@localhost) by pleiades.aeternal.net (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i2PFmTLM093210; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from corwin) Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:48:29 +0100 From: Martin Hudec To: Luke Kearney Message-ID: <20040325154829.GA93153@pleiades.aeternal.net> References: <20040325001226.9E37.LUKEK@meibin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040325001226.9E37.LUKEK@meibin.net> X-Copyright: (C) 2004 Martin Hudec X-Operating-System: FreeBSD pleiades.aeternal.net 5.2.1-RELEASE-p3 i386 X-PGP-Key: http://www.aeternal.net/corwin_aeternal.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware problems or Software problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Martin Hudec List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 15:48:14 -0000 --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--