so you have a 3com nic in that thing ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:55:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:30:08PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > Think you have been given just about all the advice to give. > It is a bunner, and expensive to solve if you replace bits. > > I will give two suggestions. > Is the power supply to your firm/house whatever "clean" ? > Computers don't like dirty power, that is power prone to what I think > experts call grey-outs. They don't like spikes either, momentary > increases in voltage. Do you live in an area prone to thunderstorms? > > You can get devices to protect against somne of these things. > > My second suggestion is going to sound really weird. > My FreeBSD system disappears into the boonies when I have a screen saver > enabled. That is xscreevsaver. Given enough time, and enough core dumps. > it crashes my system as sure as eggs is eggs. I kind of proved this by > leaving the systen running for days with and without screen saver. > It boonied with the screen saver, it did not wihout. > > A few questons. Power supply ? Do you have SCSI disks ? They eat > electricity like it is going out of fashion. > > Heat, is the server overheating ? > If you have a modern BIOS it can tell you what the temperature is. > You need to watch what the CPU temp is, because the reaction to over > heating is reboot. > > Good luck. > > > -- > > Regards > Cliff > > [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
