<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Marco Scoffier</b> <<a href="mailto:marco@metm.org">marco@metm.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a server, which has been solid for years (yes years)<br><br>I put it into a colo and it has started randomly powering off,<br>yes completely off.<br><br>When I reboot the machine after one of these poweroffs the BIOS will get
<br>to where it initializes the Mylex Raid card (dac1100?) and then powers<br>off again.<br><br>If I unplug the RAID card the BIOS will complete its diagnostics until<br>when it finds no system disk, no PXE boot etc. So I unplug the machine,
<br>put the Raid card back in its slot. Reboot and everything is ok. RAID<br>is fine sychronized everything.<br><br>I finish the boot and everything comes up ok, mlxcontrol (FreeBSD 6.1)<br>shows everything is hunky dork. Basically I went through all the
<br>pulling the card, and rebooting stuff 5 days ago, ran memtest and<br>crossed my fingers that I had fixed the hardware voodoo (perhaps<br>something had wiggled and gotten unseated when I moved the server<br>to the colo).
<br><br>Today the server is off again. So I plan on going to the colo,<br>removing the raid card and reinstalling a geom RAID straight on one of<br>the SCSI channels.<br><br>Is there something else I should check? I wiggled the power cord and
<br>power connections this did not cause the server to power off.<br><br>Could there be another reason for the mysterious power-offs?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>--<br>Marco<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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Good afternoon everyone.
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I had a box that ( after moving it ) displayed similar symptoms.
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It would lock up during the post at one piece of hardware.
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I removed that piece of hardware, then it would lock at another piece
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Sometimes it would lock at different parts of the post without changing
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any hardware. When it actually made it through the post, it would lock
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somewhere in the boot/os load process.
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A few times it successfully booted and loaded, only to lock in an application.<br>
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An intermittent ghost in the machine.
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The box is a tower with a slot processor (P3).
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I removed the processor and reinstalled it in the slot.
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The box has been rock solid since.
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Apparently the bouncing around from the move backed it out just enough.
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Good luck.
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tim..
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