From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 11:44:54 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E56E37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:44:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-13.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5695443FB1 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 11:44:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h25JioTb000974; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 14:44:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E66539F.6010207@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:44:31 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tuc Cc: Kris Kennaway , Bsd Neophyte , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please References: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> In-Reply-To: <200303051935.h25JZqSY003695@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuc wrote: >>It exercises the hardware vigorously (CPU, RAM, disk, I/O controllers, >>=2E..). This is exactly the situation under which failing hardware is >>most likely to fail. >> > > So the next question is how do I approach Dell to replace the > motherboard/cpu/memory? If I show them FreeBSD they'll laugh. Can you find an intensive program to run under Windows that will reproduce it? Hell ... just install ActivePerl and write a perl script that does lots and lots of number crunching (it need not be anything useful) or install SETI and see if it crashes Windows. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message