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[Walter Vaughan]

youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:
<snip reboots>
> -What's the motherboard maker?
INTEL  S5000XVN

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5335  @ 2.00GHz (2002.99-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6f7  Stepping = 7
usable memory = 8571473920 (8174 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  S5000XVN>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs

> -What's the chipset maker (nVidia, Intel)?
Intel
> -Have you tried out an alternate OS in testing the system?
Ran Unbuntu for a day or so just for laughs before getting serious.

I've talked to my hardware vendor. They have several ISP's that are using 
identical hardware but are running FreeBSD 6.1 because of stablity issues they 
ran into with 6.2. They also had one client that gave up and went with CentOS5.