Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:33:45 -0600 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unclean Reboot For No Apparent Reason Message-ID: <20050312093345.233739c4@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <d014caa50503070929239ee860@mail.gmail.com> References: <d014caa50503070929239ee860@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:29:17 +0000 Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > A while ago I asked about my 5.3 machine which has taken to > rebooting itself during a full portupgrade.Doesn't shut down > properly - just resets. > > I was advised to try a few things. > > I've done memtest86 from CD, let it do 5 passes and it found no > problems. I unplugged both CDs and the Floppy, and tried it, but > still did the same. cpuburn seems fine. > doing mbmon whilst executing the portupgrade -a command shows the > temperature get to around 42.5 before it resets, but it can vary. > > I'm stuck now... any ideas? > Ben Haysom Memory tests only proove that that the memory is good, not that the hardware the ram is connected to is good. The same for cpuburn. The best stress test is running a make buildword, a make install for scilab, and a find /. If that does not do it, it is most likely a intermitently flakey power supply.
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