Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 01:28:53 +0100 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: Steve Warwick <ukla@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Message-ID: <3E839745.8000602@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org> References: <BAA49A98.4698%ukla@attbi.com> <20030327233929.GA67949@lethargic.dyndns.org>
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> > >If there was not a clean shutdown, I would start looking for faulty >hardware, assuming the power was not interrupted. Any machine that >spontaniously reboots on its' own usually has a bad power supply, but it >could be very well be the motherboard, or even something else. Further, >as many other people have said, just because the hardware is new does not >necessarily mean it is problem-free. > Look especially for the condensators on the motherboard. There is a wide-spread problem with a Taiwanese company having produced bad electrolyte. The resulting condensators are found in motherboards of nearly all manufacturers and (as I can say out of my own experience) give exactly the behaviour, you described. Ciao Siegbert
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