Well,
We have been watching windows 3 after our hardware upgrades yesterday. It was moving very fast, but we started to see some random reboots. I came in tonight to try and figure out what was going on. I thought that maybe the motherboard was going bad. I upgraded the bios, I tried different processors, and I even did a Q/A check on the memory.
What I didn’t even think to check was the CPU temperature. Because the processor was so much faster then the previous one, the system was pumping out way more heat then expected. Even in our cold colo room, it could not maintain a normal temp. As soon as it started to get loaded up, it would just restart.. with no reason or anything.
Anyhow, I just now put in a HUGE heatsink on it, and we are running it in our development room over night away from all of the other servers. So far, it has not rebooted.
I am going to go home, sleep for a few hours, and then check on it again when I get up. If it has not rebooted, then I have the restart problem pinned, and will re-locate the server to another rack where we have a boat load of cold air.
Sorry for the down time everyone. I tried very hard to keep it at a min. -- heading home. 3:15 am.
~Travis