Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:49:11 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> To: Matt Watson <mwatson@becon.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE (April 5, 2006) randomly rebooting on Dell Poweredge 650 Message-ID: <444999A7.5060508@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <20060418094002.W42235@clearwater.comnet.becon.org> References: <20060418094002.W42235@clearwater.comnet.becon.org>
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Matt Watson wrote: > The subject line pretty much says it all, I have a Dell Poweredge 650 > box running 6.1-PRERELEASE which was cvsup'd on April 5, 2006. The box > has now twice rebooted on its own for no aparant reason. <...> [Log indicates no errors, spontaneous reboot.] <...> > > This machine previously had Linux installed on the box and did not > display the same problems, so I'm going on the assumption that its not a > hardware failure. > > Aside from the reboots the box has been preforming extermely well. > > If anybody can provide some insights or suggestions I'd greatly > appreciate it. Check your BIOS settings for a hardware watchdog timer. I had this problem on some brand-new servers (same class of hardware as yours) and disabling the timer stopped the reboots. Intel 6300ESB, if anyone's interested.
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