On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com> wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager <eager at eagerm.com> wrote: >>> Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >>> >>>> If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of >>>> similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement. End >>>> of story. >>> I'll repeat: this is a house-made system. There's no vendor to RMA to. >> >> >> >> I don't know where you are, but in our country we can RMA anything and >> everything. Apart from CPU's. So, even a cheap desktop mobo could be >> RMA'd, as long as I can prove to the suppliers it's faulty, and it's >> within the warrenty period > > I responded to Dr. Morbius' suggestion that I "RMA the box". > There is vendor to RMA the box to. > > If I knew that it was a motherboard problem, I could RMA it. > Or disk, or PSU, or network card, or whatever. But, as I've mentioned, > there's no indication what causes the system to hang. There is no > way at this point to prove that it is a defective motherboard. > > > -- > Michael Eager eager at eagercon.com > 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077 > _______________________________________________ ` As far as I can see you were giving a bucked load of advice, which you haven't even bothered to follow yet. You're the only one who could actually do anything about the problem. No amount of suggestions made on this list will fix the problem for you. You need to actually take apart the server and see what's going on. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532