Lucid 10.4 Keeps Crashing

[VH-BIL]

I know but I have had trouble with NIC's going south on me when administrating servers.

[Nunners]

The thing is, in my case it's not just the NIC going... unless the two NICs are causing the whole lot to go...?

[Nunners]

OS Reinstall complete... going through adding all the config in etc... It has crashed once already... nothing in logs again, although I'm not certain it wasn't something I'd done this time... I'll keep monitoring...

[Nunners]

No definitely not any better... back to the drawing board... anyone got any ideas?

[VH-BIL]

No, maybe hardware or the configuration of the hardware. I had a problem with a hardware configuration that caused a system freeze. It just happen to be the graphics card was not happy in the slot it was in and was moved, after no problems.

[Nunners]

Sort out hitting a brick wall with this one... the motherboard is all in one... i.e. the sound and display card are in-built, therefore there isn't mich that can go wrong. Is this likely to be something either install specific, something with Lucid or more than likely a fault on the motherboard/CPU etc? If it's the latter, then that's fine... but not sure what else I can do if it's the first two... can anyone suggest anything?

Cheers
Nunners

[sh1ny]

It can be any number of things.
Just so you're sure you can install a different OS for a test, see if it crashes there. Something that has different kernel version preferred.

From the way it sounds, seem like a mobo issue to me. Try with a different PSU after the OS reinstall above. Try installing lm-sensors and monitoring the temps, something might be causing overheating.

I've had a few cases of boxes freezing ( tho not rebooting ) and it was almost always either the mobo or the PSU.

[Nunners]

I have tried a different PSU, so probably mobo... I'm going to try debian, as apparently that can handle odd hardware better (not that I think this is an odd hardware issue) and see where we go from there!

[VH-BIL]

Sh1ny has a good point.

[Nunners]

Now up and running on Debian 5.05 - and it all seems fine... no faults nothing.. and actually, looking at the stats, it's running better as well - better load and memory usage...

I'll stick with that for now then - thanks for your help guys...