[nycbug-talk] Help!!! (server problems...)

[Jesse Callaway]

On May 24, 2004, at 10:43 AM, Kit Halsted wrote:

> Thanks, Jim. Heat was one of the first things to occur to me, & one 
> thing I did last time I was there was cleaning the filter on the 
> server room AC. (Dropped ambient temp by about 15 degrees! That filter 
> was nasty...) Still, it never made sense to me that heat problems 
> would happen when the box was close to idle; I would expect crashes at 
> peak times rather than at 7:00 AM when the office is empty & no one's 
> hitting the web db...
>
> -Kit
>

hmm... maybe it wants coffee.

Are the PCI cards sitting tightly in the sockets? Is there someone who 
doesn't like you who leaves around that time? Someone who touches the 
power cord at that time, like by walking on it?

Regarding what Jim suggests, check the BIOS and see if it has a thermal 
panic feature.