Re: [cobalt-users] RE: RaQ3 Mysterious dying continued

["Dave Thurman (Mailing List Email)" <listonly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/1/02 11:59 AM, Grant Stern stated:

>> Grant Stern Replied:
>>> 
>>> "think you may have a physical failure of either your ethernet card
>>> or your
>>> new ram. i had similar issues with some new ram that were resolved by
>>> my
>>> ram supplier (who IMHO, RULZ!) by replacing the bad ram with some
>>> nice new
>>> ram."
>> 
>> I had the Ram kicked up initially from 128 to 256 and I'd be telling
>> lies
>> to say if it all started then but it did happen with the 256 them I
>> had it
>> upgraded about 3 weeks ago to 512 and now it's happening again.

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This may be way off, but if you added more ram and all the sudden had
trouble, somehow it corrected itself, you then added more ram and again you
are having problems, is it possible you have a bad cat cable, maybe just the
slightest movement, or vibration makes and breaks contact?? Just a thought.
You have to physically move/get in the box.

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> 
> when i upgraded, the machine booted normally, then, started losing
> services mysteriously.  then all processes started to stick, is that
> happening?  no processes stop, then cpu overloads, then raq go boom?
> of course this all happened on a friday nite after hours.
> 
>> With regards to the ethernet card this is built in and I believe it's a
>> major to change or replace :( The servers remote so there is now way I
>> can

> 
> get thee to thou colo.  if it is the ram, the only way to find out is
> the hard way.   and make sure the machine shuts down properly,
> otherwise it turns into an all year odyssey.  just strip the ram down,
> and test each piece you have and pray that that's the problem.
> 
> (OFF TOPIC RANT: i only trust the colo to know where the button is, and
> where their bottom hole is, and hope to god they don't confuse the two!
> no offense intended to all u colo providers on the list.  one time (my
> last shared host before getting a raq) called my host cuz sites were
> down.  host called the colo, and they get everything up again.  host
> calls me back, and i joked that the colo was probably cleaning the
> server rack and unplugged the T1.   he says, actually, they were
> cleaning the FIREWALL and forgot to plug it back in!)
> 
>> Grant also replied with:
>> 
>> "have you tried booting the raq with a module that you know for sure
>> works??"
>> 

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