Robert Nichols wrote: >> My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 >> has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). >> The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. >> Is this just /var/log/messages ? > > The only System Event Log I know of is part of the BIOS. If you > enter your BIOS setup you might find something recorded, or you > can try running "dmidecode -t system" (as root) and see if > anything meaningful shows up. There's a manpage for dmidecode, > but I doubt you'll find much of interest there. Thanks. I found as I said in another post that I could read the System Event Log by pressing F2 on boot. I see that "dmidecode -t system" does indeed give me information about the error: -------------------------------------------------- Descriptor 2: Single-bit ECC memory error Data Format 2: Multiple-event Descriptor 3: Multi-bit ECC memory error Data Format 3: Multiple-event -------------------------------------------------- Not as explicit as the System Erro Log , though. Eg can I tell from this which module is at fault? (I don't have the faulty module in now.) Incidentally, does anyone know what the many "Intrusion" entries in the System Event Log mean?