Thanks for the info, Bob. You have been very helpful (as have all the other suggestions from the other posters). I can't swap the power supply until tomorrow evening (different office, 65 miles away). I'm going to try that before ordering the motherboard.
Thank you, Kyle B. Plummer From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 1:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots No, it was the only one on the 1500. 1 Dell 6400 + ext DAT drive was the full load on it. From: Kyle Plummer [mailto:kplum...@nje.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 9:38 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots Did you have other servers hooked up to the same UPS when the server was rebooting? And it only affected the one server? Unfortunately for me, this is a production server - in this case a DC. Fortunately for me, it is just a backup DC so no one is missing it. Kyle B. Plummer From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:29 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots My experience was much the same, one was a 1500 and one a 2200. I think they are both of near the same vintage. I *thought* I ruled out the UPS for the one server that did it nearly daily when I moved it to the larger one for a while then it happened again, just at a different interval and lower frequency. Replaced all the batteries and it's a lot better. I should get off my duff and connect and configure PowerChute but that is a PITA covered in another thread and they are just lab servers so they don't have any priority. From: Kyle Plummer [mailto:kplum...@nje.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots I've had it on two different UPS units. First one had other servers on it (load was at 50%), but none of the other servers had an issue. I moved it to a new UPS (both are Smart-UPS 1500 units from APC) that had nothing else on it. Still did the reboots. That's a good suggestion, though. I didn't think of that when I moved it. I was more concerned with isolating the server from the other ones. Thank you, Kyle B. Plummer From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots I have had similar spontaneous shutdowns that were unexplained till I realized they were actually caused by the APC UPS's in my lab/office. One did it nearly daily till I just happened to be there to observe it and realize what was going on. From: Kyle Plummer [mailto:kplum...@nje.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots I have it on an APC Smart-UPS 1500, very light load. I have my own AC and keep the server room around 68 or so. Good airflow. No dust build up inside the case. I'll try swapping the power supply itself with a known good one to see if that helps. Thank you, Kyle B. Plummer From: Mathew Shember [mailto:mathew.shem...@synopsys.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spontaneous server reboots Bad power supply? How is the circuit load? From: Kyle Plummer [mailto:kplum...@nje.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Spontaneous server reboots I have an HP DL380G4 server that randomly reboots. At first I suspected an issue with Windows. However, I booted into the BIOS and let it sit there for a few minutes. Again at random intervals the system will reboot. Sometimes I can't even get all the way into the BIOS. I replaced the memory modules with new ones (twice, just to be sure) - still reboots randomly even from the BIOS. I suspect an issue with the motherboard. Any other possible causes, or has anyone experienced this with the G4's? It had run for about four years prior with no issue until this started. No other hardware changes or updates to the BIOS have been done in the last year (only Windows patches). Thanks in advance, Kyle B. 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