On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 01:28:53AM +0100, Siegbert Baude wrote: > > > > > >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. >
This is off topic (sort of), but out of curiosity, could problems like that on a motherboard cause problems relating to memory? If so, I bet this explains my problems at work lately with an NT4 server giving me the BSOD all the time with memory errors. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"