From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 17 23:54:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A54C616A41F for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:54:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lgadallah@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5149F43D49 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:54:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lgadallah@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so1208360wra for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:54:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PIkeEL1Xtf6yFJ99X6gc51gQKnsDaNHUI12hpcBGG/i/WbKvFYRXLKX6AAWkrWt1+p/VnwjZ3DqS/6uW8GUm9cgonHZlkos7l5nw7Au8QJsvfUmkQEUdD7uBElhrf9g7GMneG0zS2qvFZ1SizfVL6Oqq3bzIi1YUYveHwFcGStk= Received: by 10.54.68.16 with SMTP id q16mr1462312wra; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.102.18 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9d5506db05061716541e943131@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:54:39 -0700 From: Larry Gadallah To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Random resets - N440BX X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Larry Gadallah List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:54:40 -0000 Hello all: I have a long running and (so far) very solid Intel N440BX motherboard in an Intel Columbus case, dual P-II 400 Mhz, 512M of ECC RAM, two Fujitsu SCSI-2 drives, etc. For the past 3-4 years, I've run FreeBSD 3.5 through 4.11 on this box, until about a month ago when I noticed that it was down. On investigation, I found out that one of the P-II fansinks had fallen off its CPU. Needless to say, the associated CPU self-destructed. I bought a couple of P-III 550 Mhz CPUs and put them in, and everything was fine, or so I thought. Now I'm experiencing random reboots, no core dumps or log messages and I'm trying to figure out what's gone wrong. I've dug up a few notes indicating that power supply or RAM are suspect. Does anyone know if going from P-IIs to P-IIIs would cause that much more stress on what should be a very solid system? Thanks in advance... --=20 Larry Gadallah, lgadallah AT gmail DOT com