Server crashing, no explanations

[Alan Gilmour]

Hi Tobias,

Yes the plan is the next time it crashes is to check BIOS,
unfortunately I need to get hosts to do this as I can't physically
access the machine at this point, but they have some KVM like switch
attached to it.

Cheers

Alan


On 20/05/2008, Tobias Hoellrich <thoellri at adobe.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> > Roberto Nunnari
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:49 AM
> > To: Alan Gilmour
> > Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Server crashing, no explanations
> >
> > Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could be a HW failure..
> > Once I had a server crashing with no dumps, and I found out
> > it was I power supply problem.
> >
> > Best regards.
> > Robi
> >
>
> Same here: my aging Dell with ECC Rambus (yes, Rambus) memory was
> rebooting without producing a panic and thus without a chance for a
> crash-dump, because one memory bank on the system was failing.
>
> However, the BIOS on the system was nice enough to tell me about the
> memory errors and even tell me which module it thought it was.
>
> That may be something you should check on your system (meaning: BIOS
> error log - if you happen to have one of those).
>
> Cheers - Tobias
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