My server rebooted for an unknown reason..

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 19:55, CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> On 05/25/2010 11:34 AM, J wrote:
>> It's been my experience that sudden, spontaneous reboots with no
>> messages in the OS logs tends to indicate a hardware issue, either a
>> failing CPU or piece of RAM, something throwing an NMI, or overheating
>> or PDU problem.
>
> I've seen it with defective power supplies, hard disk drives, and
> motherboards, too. A Dell server at a school I help was having
> spontaneous rebooting issues. Dell replaced the CPU, RAM, and power
> supply. It turned out to have the "bulging capacitor" problem on the
> motherboard and once the motherboard was replaced, all was well. It's
> not always an easy problem to troubleshoot.

Sounds like Dell didn't try to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow.
That *always* works! :)

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Amedee