[clue-tech] Unexpected Reboots

[Chris Stone]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 01:33:27PM -0700, Chris Hirsch wrote:
> When you start to see  odd reboots on a stable box the first thing I'd
> check are the fans and cooling..I had a box that was stable for years
> and then the CPU fan and a bridge fan died shortly within one another.
> After that I'd get about 2-3 hours of uptime and then it would reboot.
> 
> There was nothing in the logs to indicate this (because it would just
> hard reboot and nothing would get flushed) and it took me a little while
> to actually figure it out until I cracked the box..then it was obvious :-)


Or the power supply itself. A bad or dying power supply can cause random
reboot cycles....



Chris

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