Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 14:01:50 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: skylar@cs.earlham.edu Cc: freeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load Message-ID: <436E7D4E.6080707@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu> References: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> <436E7599.9090003@cs.earlham.edu>
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Skylar Thompson wrote: > Micah wrote: > >> >> My desktop system just started doing this last night. I was upgrading >> Gnome using the handy shell script they provide. It looks like >> sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset. This morning I'm trying >> to reinstall all the software that got lost in last night's reset and >> I get another reset in the middle of compiling. The last message in >> /var/log/messages before reboot is: >> Nov 6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 >> Nov 6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 >> Nov 6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel >> >> I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors. I'm guessing it's >> a hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it? > > > > Could it be a bad power supply? Try swapping in another one and see what > happens. > I was thinking that too, unfortunately I don't have a spare and was hoping to diagnose before buying parts. Voltages look fine when I check the accessory lines (+5 and +12) with a multimeter under load. Thanks, Micah
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