BOOM? Been watching too much Knight Rider. :) On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Jason DeStefano wrote: > It could. My experience has been that the boot-up ram BIOS test > rarely ever finds RAM problems even when they exist. I've experienced > your problem before due to bad RAM. The system may boot and the > bad portion of RAM may not be used at first, then as files are accessed > and cached in RAM you hit the bad chip and BOOM!!! > > Let me know what you find out. > > Jason > > At 03:28 PM 12/1/00 -0600, you wrote: > >> Spontaneous reboots often point to bad RAM. Are you borrowing DIMMS > >> from one board to the other? > > > >Yes, I am... The machine I took the RAM out of wouldn't even boot, but I > >assumed it was probably the board. Would a reboot during POST still point > >to bad RAM? I'll try replacing that anyway. > > > >Jay > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: destef at mail.destef.com [mailto:destef at mail.destef.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:16 PM > >> To: 'tclug-list at lists.real-time.com' > >> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Evil spontaneously rebooting intel MB's > >> > >> > >> Spontaneous reboots often point to bad RAM. Are you borrowing DIMMS > >> from one board to the other? Just a shot in the dark idea. > >> > >> Jason > >> > >> > >> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Austad, Jay wrote: > >> > >> > So I'm building this machine which is supposed to run > >> without a video card. > >> > I have 2 intel SE440BX2 PII400 MB's and chips. I boot the > >> machine without > >> > the video card in it, it boots fine, I can log into it over > >> the network, and > >> > then after being up for a few minutes it reboots. > >> Sometimes it will reboot > >> > even before the POST is done, so I know it's not the OS > >> that's causing it. > >> > Both boards do it, so I'm fairly sure it's not a problem > >> with the hardware. > >> > > >> > > >> > Does anyone know anything about this? I'm going to upgrade > >> the BIOS and see > >> > if that helps. I know the board will work without a video > >> card, as many > >> > companies who make x86 based network appliances use this > >> exact same board. > >> > > >> > Jay > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > tclug-list mailing list > >> > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > >> > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> tclug-list mailing list > >> tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >> > >_______________________________________________ > >tclug-list mailing list > >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Houck thouck at thouck.com www.thouck.com