Re: SBS 2003 crashes for no apparent reason
- From: Joe <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:50:10 +0000
JD wrote:
what a day!
Memory all checked out ok, SATA drives both ok too. Installed more memory. Moved pagefile back to system partition. It now crashes every 20mins! Refitted processor and memory. Booted in safe mode (still freezes). Spent 2 hours on the phone to Dell - they think it is a problem with the motherboard and/or the processor.
Not a cheap solution!!!
OK, you've obviously reseated every connector on the MB, there's not much more you can do and still maintain the server running at all. About the only really useful troubleshooting method is substitution, which requires you to have two of everything, and presumably you'd have done all that if you did.
I've known a bad IDE CD drive to bring a machine down, I'd think it less likely that SATA could but I wouldn't be sure. Though you may well have the hard drives on SATA and an IDE CD... Pull the floppy drive connector off the MB altogether, if there's one fitted, and disconnect the CD drive, whatever it is, and any USB stuff you don't need.
It's possibly worth getting a voltmeter to the MB power connector, or better still calling up the voltage and temperature monitor if you have one for it. If nothing else, reboot and watch the values when the BIOS shows them. A slightly low voltage on logic chips can cause intermittent oddities, and increased memory will draw more current, and will pull the voltage lower still. It would be frustrating to replace the MB, or even just the processor, and find it was a power supply problem all along.
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