Gorski, Jim wrote:
Micah,
I had a motherboard fail with a similar set of symptoms.
Mine was due to bad capacitors on the motherboard itself.
Take a look and make certain that none of them are swollen
or pushing material out the top.
Heat also leads to random resets - is your fan still running
smoothly or is it covered in dust and cat hair like mine..?
Best of luck - hope this helps,
Jim Gorski
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Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:59:37 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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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.
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I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test
the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them
in the bios). My Dad said he'd bring by his spot-read thermometer if he
remembers so I can check the temps of everything. The CPU heatsink and
memory are cool to the touch under load. I didn't see any obvious signs
of burnt/damaged components. No telltale smell either.
Thanks,
Micah
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