Soooo. Major headaches with the new machine. Every few hours I'd get a reboot, with nothing logged in syslog. Very odd.
My initial suspicion was the power supply, but it's a spanking new 350W effort, and it's only driving ~30 watts of hardware. The voltages looked fine in the BIOS page and in 'sensors'. Not too likely, then.
I looked to the motherboard next. No bulging or burst caps, no debris anywhere, corrosion, all normal.
My initial suspicion was the power supply, but it's a spanking new 350W effort, and it's only driving ~30 watts of hardware. The voltages looked fine in the BIOS page and in 'sensors'. Not too likely, then.
I looked to the motherboard next. No bulging or burst caps, no debris anywhere, corrosion, all normal.
And then I put the RAM in my desktop machine and ran memtest86 over it. 1086 errors.
What surprises me most is that I didn't get any kernel messages before any of the reboots. I would have expected to see a kernel oops or panic at one point or another, but there was nothing.
Anyway, I've treated the poor wee thing to half a gig of unbuffered ECC RAM, so hopefully it's feeling better now.
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