Re: Debian Sarge: Intermittent random crashes

Peter T. Breuer wrote: 
BlueGecko <bluegeckoNoSpmAbse@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My BIOS settings are much conservative (no overclocking, no hyperthreading etc.).

Then clock it down and check your heat sink and fan.


The clock is just at the standard rate.


That's what I SAID. Clock it down.

Now I'm curious, what diagnostic info will he gain from running the clock below spec? The CPU and M/B temps are within normal range, and I assume you're not suggesting running that way, any more than you would "fix" a car backfire at highway speed by only driving at 30.

I would have him reseating every data and power cable, including power supply, and put a meter on the power supply under load. Noise and/or low voltage under CPU+disk load is possible in this case.

I don't disagree that this is almost certainly hardware, but even if the system runs stable at below spec speed I'm not ture it helps fix the problem.

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