constant rebooting

[seanle]

have a power edge 2600 and it wont stop rebooting
need help!!!

 

[seanle]

oh and windows server 2003 is on it

 

[NickFerrar]

Is anything consistently getting written to the event logs jsut before the crash?

In the past we've had a self-rebooting PowerEdge 2600 and it turned out to be a conflict between diskeeper and our backup software running overnight.

Other than that I have a couple of PowerEdge 2550's that reboot once in a while, I think it's flaky memory but had to track it down as we don't get logs written and Dell diagnostics finds no problems. You should run diags on yours and check the ESM logs in OpenManage.

 

[technome]

Nick...
I have one Wk2 server, with memory leaks when I run Diskeeper. By any chance are you referring to Vertias BE. Also I have APC Powerchute, which seems to have started the problem. See you have been over to the Minasi site a few times

Paul Meiners

........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[seanle]

thanks for the reply
it was a gps system that was added and was not told about
but he put it in wrong

 

[xmsre]

In windows 2000 and NT 4.0 there was a switch you put in when you had serial devices, like an UPS, connected so that the NT detection logic would not query the com port and cause your server to reboot. it's the /noserialmice:com# option in the boot.ini. In windows 2003, it's /fastdetect:com#

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;170817

 

[jkupski]

Okay, you've got my curiousity piqued: exactly why did someone hang a GPS off of a (presumably stationary) server?

 

[NickFerrar]

Hi Paul,

Our issue with Diskeeper with ARCserve v11, in the end I just set Diskeeper to only run Saturday/Sunday as we aren't a 24/7 operation.

 

[technome]

Nick
Thank for the reply, basically I do the same, but I shut down services through the scheduler, until needed. Veritas has been involved in a few memory leak situation for me, irritating, never figured out the correction, so I resort to the scheduler.

........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[seanle]

well the server is not stationary
it is on a very large drag line at a coal mine

 

[technome]

I like it, a server with a GPS, does it wander off ?

Coal mine, non stationary...
Power issue, is it on UPS
Flaky power supply. Some PS units have very sensitive circuits which will cause a reboot if minor power glitches occur.

If the server is moving, possible electrical contact problem
great product

http://www.posthorn.com/Stab_2.html

........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm

 

[jkupski]

well the server is not stationary
it is on a very large drag line at a coal mine

That's pretty damn cool. Reminds me of a bash.org quote, though of course this is on a whole nother level

<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.

 

[technome]

What next, LoJacks for servers ?


........................................
Chernobyl disaster..a must see pictorial

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm