RE: After installing ISA server reboots twice a day

>Is there any chance that this could be software ? If a bluescren occurred
would there always be something in the event log ?

If it is software, 95% of the time you will see something. Even if it is
only a event saying recovering from bug check or preparing memory.dmp or dr.
Watson.

>This issue started at the same time we moved the hosting of this server to
another company. The engineer there has assured me that the ups is up to the
job. We also have another server on this ups which is not rebooting.

This has nothing to do with the UPS. (Unless the UPS itself is starting to
suffer some kind of failure.)

What I mean by the power supply is the actual power supply inside the
server.

For example, we have a server that has 2 EIDE HD, 2 SCSI HD, 2 NIC cards, a
total of 3 fans all running on a 300 watt power supply. 

All of a sudden, at around 11:00 PM and 4:00 AM the server would reboot.
Nothing in the logs or memory dump. After a couple of days I saw a pattern.
At 10:50 a batch file started that was doing a bunch of file updates. At
4:00 AM NAV was scheduled to do a complete virus scan. Both of these are
disk intensive.

So on a whim, I changed the power supply to a 480 watt and have not had a
problem since.

That's why I was asking about what hardware do you have.

John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA
IT Manager, Network Engineer
RelianceSoft, Inc.
Fullerton, CA  92835
www.reliancesoft.com





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