Sudden and unexplained reboots

[Onyi C. Ejiasa]

Believe it or not I had the same problem less than 1 week ago!

It always turns into a process of elimination game. After battling the same errors and random reboots for 1 month or so (yes I even ran MemTest86 5+ times without errors!), it turned out to be a flaky motherboard. Regardless, all clues and experiences seem to point to a hardware problem.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Carlos Reategui 
  To: Noor Dawod 
  Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:39 PM
  Subject: Re: Sudden and unexplained reboots


  I would suggest http://www.memtest86.com
  I had some bad memory on a machine that drove me nuts for several months.  I
  would suggest letting it run through the entire default set of tests.  My
  problem did not show up until test 6 or 7.  Since I discovered this I run it
  religiously on any new machine or one that I have changed the memory on.

  -Carlos

  PS. Sorry if this has been suggested already. I saw the thread midstream.

  <snip>
  >
  > I shouldn't speculate on causes until you have more idea what's happening,
  > but this does smell like failing hardware.  In your position, I'd be
  > thinking about swapping RAM and maybe the power supply.
  >
  >

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