Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 15:59:43 +0000 From: Ben Haysom <ben.haysom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unclean Reboot For No Apparent Reason Message-ID: <d014caa5050312075947122fdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050312093345.233739c4@vixen42.local.lan> References: <d014caa50503070929239ee860@mail.gmail.com> <20050312093345.233739c4@vixen42.local.lan>
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On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:33:45 -0600, Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> wrote: > 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. those things do not do it. but the maachine is always on and only ever resets during portupgrade -a. every time. B.
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