System Locks up overnight

[samsc]

fans going on means total system crash or hardware failure.
usually intermittent.

Nothing to do with Catalyst or pixelmad.

recent os builds have not seen this happen so much for me.

i had a broken fan on a graphics card that used to cause this to happen.
heat....

[samsc]

Came up with an idea to check whether its an OS install problem or a hardware problem.

Solution:

Buy a new hard disc.

1. Install totally new system on disc

2. if the computer still crashes - its a hardware fault

3. if the computer doesnt crash - its an os install problem.

[tylerr]

Seems to me that i could just swap the scsi drives between 2 machines and see if the problem moves. The only bummer there is that the bad machines brother is going to Austraila for a gig. It will have to wait a bit.

Tyler

[samsc]

did you update the flash roms in the atto cards?

they definitely did several rom updates last year.

on the atto site - this is refered to as firmware

http://www.attotech.com/

they also did driver updates as well.

[tylerr]

done all that.

[samsc]

is this thing still crashing - a lot - like every few hours?
or just occasionally?

[samsc]

we both know this is some kind of intermittent hardware failure.

its tough to debug with so many permutations of the components involved.

when i worked at V*L it always used to be the cables and connectors that failed the most - in the most difficult way to debug

[Spam Butterfly]

Just a note on SCSI adapter cards:
The driver updates and firmware updates go hand in hand. It's not enough to check one or the other - do both.

Hugh

[tylerr]

I have upgraded the drivers and the firmware. Didnt help. Now when I get the units back i am going to start swapping components between the mached pair of machines. The server crashed after several hours of inactivity or at least activity with no DMX applied. Its an odd problem.

When did you work at VL?

[samsc]

classic sympton of intermittent hardware problem....

V*L -1988-91 i used to fix artisan consoles