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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:59:06 -0500
From:      "Moti Levy" <moti@flncs.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please
Message-ID:  <000b01c2e2cb$92d53540$c901a8c0@xp>
References:  <200303041302.h24D2erk009815@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <20030304233008.40599.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> <20030305025521.GA94920@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030305033342.GB3922@raggedclown.net>

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so you have a 3com nic in that thing ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff Sarginson" <cls@raggedclown.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please


> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:55:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:30:08PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote:
> > 
> Think you have been given just about all the advice to give.
> It is a bunner, and expensive to solve if you replace bits.
> 
> I will give two suggestions.
> Is the power supply to your firm/house whatever "clean" ?
> Computers don't like dirty power, that is power prone to what I think
> experts call grey-outs. They don't like spikes either, momentary
> increases in voltage. Do you live in an area prone to thunderstorms?
> 
> You can get devices to protect against somne of these things.
> 
> My second suggestion is going to sound really weird.
> My FreeBSD system disappears into the boonies when I have a screen saver
> enabled. That is xscreevsaver. Given enough time, and enough core dumps.
> it crashes my system as sure as eggs is eggs. I kind of proved this by
> leaving the systen running for days with and without screen saver.
> It boonied with the screen saver, it did not wihout.
> 
> A few questons. Power supply ? Do you have SCSI disks ? They eat
> electricity like it is going out of fashion.
> 
> Heat, is the server overheating ?
> If you have a modern BIOS it can tell you what the temperature is.
> You need to watch what the CPU temp is, because the reaction to over
> heating is reboot.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Regards
>    Cliff
> 
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