On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Jim Durham wrote:
I have had this problem now with at least 3 FreeBSD servers over a period of about 2 years. I had put it down to some hardware problem but it seems to be too much of a coincidence with 3 different machines doing the same thing.
I had sudden reboots over a period of two years. Recently, they started happening more often. It turned out that the capacitors had gone bad.
Capacitors from about two to three years ago used a poor formula. This site has information about it: http://www.badcaps.net/.
The interesting thing for me was that the capacitors did not show any signs for about two years. They looked like they had flat tops without leaking. I think they may have spilled their guts when, I turned the computer off for about a week for a vacation. They must have missed me. :)
In case the power supplies are over-taxed, here is an on-line calculator: http://takaman.jp/D/index.html?english.
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