Sudden reboots with ProLiant DL360 G3 and 5.3-RELEASE-p2

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

We have 2 DL360's that we bought off Ebay several years ago, intending to
run Solaris 8 on both of them.  One of them we loaded Solaris 8 on and
it runs flawlessly.  The other we loaded Solaris 8 on and it reboots all
the time.  Needless to say the second one runs Windows 2K just fine.
The configurations of software and hardware are identical.  I am pretty
disgusted with the situation and Compaq/HP is no help - and we have a
sister company that is a Compaq dealer.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of federico
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 4:19 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Sudden reboots with ProLiant DL360 G3 and 5.3-RELEASE-p2
>
>
> Hello, we have a ProLiant DL360 Generation 3 Server with 5.3-RELEASE-p2
> installed.  The problem is that every now and then the server suddenly
> reboots.
>
> I had the problem from the first install.  At the beginning the
> server would
> suddenly reboot during buildworld.  Then, in the BIOS I the changed the
> Multi-Processor Specification Table Mode from Auto Set Table to Full Table
> Mapped, and Buildworld was able to finish successfully. I tried the other
> MPS settings, updating to the latest BIOS of the serve, loading
> FreeBSD with
> ACPI disabled, but the problem continues.  Nothing is logged
> prior the every
> reboot, so I have no clue as to what might be causing the problem.
>
> We bought two identical servers at the same time.  The other does not have
> any problems.
>
> HP help support is not very good and FreeBSD is not among their supported
> operating systems for this server, so could anybody please help?
> Please let
> me know what kind of information would be useful to troubleshot this
> problem, I will produce it.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> federico
>
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