Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:10:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Sean Farley <sean-freebsd@farley.org> To: Jim Durham <durham@jcdurham.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sudden Reboots Message-ID: <20041002095910.Y4180@thor.farley.org> In-Reply-To: <200409301003.00492.durham@jcdurham.com> References: <200409301003.00492.durham@jcdurham.com>
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Jim Durham wrote: > I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a > period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem > but it seems to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines > doing the same thing. I had sudden reboots over a period of two years. Recently, they started happening more often. It turned out that the capacitors had gone bad. Capacitors from about two to three years ago used a poor formula. This site has information about it: http://www.badcaps.net/. The interesting thing for me was that the capacitors did not show any signs for about two years. They looked like they had flat tops without leaking. I think they may have spilled their guts when, I turned the computer off for about a week for a vacation. They must have missed me. :) In case the power supplies are over-taxed, here is an on-line calculator: http://takaman.jp/D/index.html?english. Sean ----------------------- sean-freebsd@farley.org
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