[CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

Wed Mar 9 08:24:48 UTC 2011
Leen de Braal <ldb at braha.nl>

> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Michael Eager wrote:
>
>>> House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM.
>>
>> Any chance the problem's with the video card?
>
> Video is on the MB.  It doesn't seem likely that it's
> the video, since the system doesn't respond to network
> when it crashes.
>
> It could be anything.  That's why I'm looking for
> something that would give me a bit of a hint what
> to look at.  With an infrequent failure, it's not
> practical to replace components piecemeal.

While you open the case, check for the bulging capacitor problem.
Will have the effect you describe, freezing up the system so that even
bios routines don't work (your fans).
If that's the case, replace mainboard.

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