Server "freezing"

[bronto]

OK, I've put in a battery from a dead Mac that was new a couple of 
months before the Mac died.  I doubt that this is the cause of the 
problem as I just went to Radio Shack and had the old battery tested, 
and it's drawing 3.6 volts like it was new.  So I don't think it's 
the battery.  Even so, I'm leaving the replaced one in just to see 
what happens.  I'll post here if(when) it freezes again.

Rob


>Wow, that would be too easy.  I'll try it.
>
>Anyone else have ideas?
>
>Rob
>
>>We had a similar problem on one of our servers - it turned out that 
>>the battery on the motherboard was dying.  We replaced that and 
>>it's worked fine ever since.
>>
>>No guarantees but it's an inexpensive fix - the batteries are less 
>>than $10 I think.
>>
>>
>>On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 11:53  AM, Rob Brandt wrote:
>>
>>>I am having a problem for the last month or so and don't know what 
>>>to do about it.  It's happened 4 times in November, and last night 
>>>as well.
>>>
>>>The server "freezes".  It is completely unresponsive to the 
>>>keyboard, http, mail services, telnet, ssh, and ftp.  I can 
>>>successfully ping > it.
>>>
>>>When this has happened, I end up having to shut it down at the 
>>>power button and reboot.  When rebooting it goes through the 
>>>filesystem check and often encounters and Unexpected 
>>>Inconsistency, requiring me to run fsck.  After going through 
>>>that, it fixes several things (sometimes a lot, sometimes a 
>>>little) and then loads properly and all is well.  For a while. 
>>>Then it does it again in 2 to 14 days.  I don't know whether the 
>>>unexpected inconsistency is the cause or the result of the 
>>>"freeze".
>>>
>>>Are there any diagnostics that I can perform to discover the 
>>>problem? If there are file system errors causing this, are there 
>>>utilities that can be run that will prevent it or minimize the 
>>>risk?
>>>
>>>Any advice appreciated.  Running:
>>>
>>>Beige G3 Tower;
>>>YDL 2.2
>>>768 MB Ram
>>>YDL boot disk : original 4gig IDE (hda8)
>>>Data disk for /home and /var: New (2 mos) 60 gig IBM (hdb2 & 3)
>>>
>>>All of the above partitions have exhibited the Unexpected Inconsistency.
>>>
>>>Rob
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