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bugboy · #1 13th March 2007, 14:54

Hello my first post on this forum.

I've sreached google for an answer and found nothing.

My problem started a week ago when the speaker cable came loose inside my machine(*1) and kept shorting the power supply.

Now this is my internal webserver that allows me to build sites and mess around. Its headless and i can ssh in or config via webmin.

When i first set this up it was running great but since the cable came lose every so often the server would drop from the network. If i'm working on pages then it says up and works great but if i leave it for a while it just drops.

I was wondering if you guys had any advice. I'm pretty new to all this so bare with me.

*1 machine details

900mhz pIII
256 ram
80gb hardrive
250gb hardrive
ATA raid controller pci card
built in ethernet
built in graphics(running headless)

martinfst · #2 13th March 2007, 17:42

The power supply shortage may have damaged your motherboard. If the problem only happens now and then and is not reproducible with a specific sequence of actions there's not much you can do exept replace hardware. Could be memory (how about static electricity when you fixed the loose speaker cable)? Not much we can help you with, sorry

bugboy · #3 13th March 2007, 17:59

i've got some spare ram i'll try that.

I did take out the pram battery as well at one point don't know if that could be a cause.

falko · #4 14th March 2007, 21:58

You could test your memory with memtest: http://www.memtest.org/

bugboy · #5 15th March 2007, 09:59

Thanks i'll give that a whirl.

I have swapped the ram around as well just incase.

Say if the mobo is messed up. Could i just swap the hard drives and ATA pci card over to new mobo and wil that just work?

martinfst · #6 15th March 2007, 10:06

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Say if the mobo is messed up. Could i just swap the hard drives and ATA pci card over to new mobo and wil that just work?

If it's a similar mobo, yes. Don't know what happens if it's a different chipset. Could work, maybe not. Personally, when I'm going to use a new server/hardware, I let the installation procedure figure out what hardware I have and have it install the appropriate drivers.... You could try, depends on how important your current server/data is and if you need to keep it online as much as possible. Make a backup 1st and test your restore.