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From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <achornback@worldnet.att.net>
To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Mysterious boot during the night
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:14:08 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Anthony
> Atkielski
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2001 6:55 AM
> To: Kent Stewart
> Cc: Kris Kennaway; FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Mysterious boot during the night
>
> Kent asks:

[snip]

> > Based on your setiathome time, it has to be a
> > fairly slow machine.
>
> The processor is supposedly an AMD Athlon XP at 1.5 MHz, although
> I have no easy
> way to confirm this.  The machine is brand-new.

	Cutting edge technology... gotta love it.  *shakes his head*

> > I am curious about the rest of the system.
>
> The motherboard is a Chaintech 7AIA5 (or perhaps 7AIA5E, I'm not
> sure which).
> The CPU fan is running at 4551 RPM most of the time, and the CPU
> temperature is
> 47-48 degrees Celsius, as reported by the BIOS.  The system
> temperature is 39
> degrees Celsius.

	What chipset does that motherboard use?  Or is it even possible to find
out?  IIRC, Chaintech was part of the PC Chips line.  If that's true, that
would be a poor excuse for a motherboard based on my experience with PC
Chips products.

	Check your RAM, make sure it's properly rated for the speeds you're running
at.  If the machine is dying in the middle of a cron job which does the
standard system checks, you may also want to do some stress testing on the
disk subsection.  Also check dmesg for any anomalous readings (cards that
don't show up, hardware that's detected but "unknown", etc.)

--- Andy


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