Nicolas Ross (Nicolas.Ross@cybercat.qc.ca)
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 13:39:11 -0500
Peter A. Castro said...
> Nicolas Ross said ...
> >
> > Hi there !
> >
> > Recently, we bought a 200 MHz CPU upgrade card from one who was selling
them
> > on this list.
>
> Did the person you bought them from test them first?
Nope, they were brand new from the box, factory sealed...
> > We have a ANS 700 w/ 150 MHz CPU, 112 megs ram, 5 IBM 4 gigs disks in
> > software raid, running YDL 1.1
> >
> > So, yesterday morning we replaced the 150 MHz CPU card with the 200 MHz
one.
> > The server went OK for about 8 hours. And then started crashing like
hell.
> > Crashed 3 times in less than one hour. I finally removed the 200 MHz
cpu,
> > and but back the old one.
> >
> > Any similar case ? Any solutions ?
>
> We have three ANS's and I upgraded the last two with 200 MHz CPU cards
> last week. So far no problems at all. Can you describe the crashes?
> Are programs dumping? Are you getting kernel panics? Machine lockup?
> Anything suspicious in you syslogs? More info please!
It varies...
The first time, the console was frozen, nothing to do. Three finger split
(ctrl - opt - start)
Second time, httpd crashed, and caused a kernel panic.
Third time, console froze again.
There were nothing in the log files saying abnormal things...
> > Nicolas Ross, ing. stag.
>
> --
> Peter A. Castro (doctor@fruitbat.org) or (pcastro@us.oracle.com)
>
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