Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

[Gorski, Jim]

Micah,

I had a motherboard fail with a similar set of symptoms.
Mine was due to bad capacitors on the motherboard itself.
Take a look and make certain that none of them are swollen
or pushing material out the top.

Heat also leads to random resets - is your fan still running
smoothly or is it covered in dust and cat hair like mine..?

Best of luck - hope this helps,

Jim Gorski


Message: 14
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 00:59:37 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Message-ID: <436F1779.7090807 at u.washington.edu>
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>>>> Micah wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> My desktop system just started doing this last night.  I was 
>>>>> upgrading Gnome using the handy shell script they provide.  It 
>>>>> looks like sometime around 11:30pm the computer reset.  This 
>>>>> morning I'm trying to reinstall all the software that got lost in 
>>>>> last night's reset and I get another reset in the middle of 
>>>>> compiling.  The last message in /var/log/messages before reboot
is:
>>>>> Nov  6 10:41:08 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 6001
>>>>> Nov  6 10:58:14 trisha ntpd[489]: kernel time sync enabled 2001
>>>>> Nov  6 13:02:57 trisha syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/
>>>>> kernel
>>>>>
>>>>> I just ran memtest86+ and there's no memory errors.  I'm guessing 
>>>>> it's a hardware issue, but how do I diagnose it?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could it be a bad power supply? Try swapping in another one and 
>>>> see what happens.
>>>
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