strange hardware problem

[david thornton]

Have you examined /var/log/messages?

can you put the drive in another chassis?

You need to be able to rule out portions of the system.

What if you remove the NICs? if it's just on it's own with no network  
does it behave the same?

David


Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

>
> The machine is running RedHat 9. Pentium III. It reports itself as 
> GenuineIntel
> in /proc/cpuinfo. It is not heavily used. Top shows mostly 99.8 % of 
> idle CPU
> as well a lot of free memory.
>
> It is used as a test server, visible also from the Internet.
>
> It just shuts down itself. In the sense that there is no access to it 
> by ssh,
> it does not respond to mouse or keybord. This happens more and more 
> often,
> recentely every 15 minutes.
>
> There is no any usefull info in log files (or at least I can not find 
> it).
>
> May be someone could perhaps suggest how to approach this problem, how 
> to solve it?
> How to find out what causes it?
>
> We checked the BIOS, apmd is not running.
>
> zb.
>
>

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