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Re: [LUG] Server lockups

 

Neil Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:56:37 +0100
> Simon Williams <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> 2 days ago my server locked up. After a hard reboot it came back up 
>> fine. Then last night it did the same thing again, but this time it
>> took several tries before it would boot properly.
>>
>> The question is- what is causing this?
> 
> Overheating?
>

A favourite, often a quick de-dusting of the fans and heatsinks can work
wonders here. I like to have lmsensors working to keep an eye on temps
as well as relying on bios monitoring.



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