Dell PowerEdge 840 - keeps rebooting

[Lanny Baron]

Hi Rigis,

Check the memory. For starters anyway.
Regards,
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Regis wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Are there any indications that the Dell PowerEdge 840 is not supported by
> FreeBSD? My new system keeps rebooting (5 times last night) without
> any logs, console errors or kernel dump. I would be interested to know
> whether somebody else uses this machine.
> 
> I currently have 7.0 PRERELEASE installed from last week sources.
> I tried to install 6.3-RELEASE but the computer rebooted while the 
> data were copied from the CD to the hard disk.
> 
> The computer has 2 Broadcom NICs and 3 SATA II disks, no RAID.
> It sometimes reboots even in Single User Mode when idle. 
> I recompiled the kernel this morning without SMP support but no luck.
> I am not sure anymore whether this is a hardware or a software issue.
> Any suggestions on a bootable CD diagnostic tool that I could
> run outside FreeBSD would be very welcome.
> 
> Regis
> 
> P.S. I also posted this message on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
> 
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