On 10/31/05, Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> wrote:
Hans du Plooy wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm having problems with a windows server that resets spontaneously. Normally I would suspect windows, but seeing as it is a fresh install, the hard drive seems to be the obvious culprit.
Is there a tool, preferably one that I can run off a live CD, that will test the hard drive below filesystem level?
The hard drive is not the problem. Even if memtest does not fail, try changing the memory anyway, with a different brand.
Look in BIOS at the memory timings, choose "By SPD".
Other cause could be a bad driver.
Investigating the hard-disk is most probably a waste of time. Some bad blocks on the disk don't manifest with spontaneous resets.
But if you really feel you need to do it, boot the "Rescue System" and use the badblocks command. 99.99999% it will tell you the hard-disk is just fine and peachy.
Can you bench test the power supply (supplies)? I had a system that would just do random reboots and it turned out to be the supply. It was fine when just sitting there, but do the slightest thing and reboot. John