It could. My experience has been that the boot-up ram BIOS test rarely ever finds RAM problems even when they exist. I've experienced your problem before due to bad RAM. The system may boot and the bad portion of RAM may not be used at first, then as files are accessed and cached in RAM you hit the bad chip and BOOM!!! Let me know what you find out. Jason At 03:28 PM 12/1/00 -0600, you wrote: >> Spontaneous reboots often point to bad RAM. Are you borrowing DIMMS >> from one board to the other? > >Yes, I am... The machine I took the RAM out of wouldn't even boot, but I >assumed it was probably the board. Would a reboot during POST still point >to bad RAM? I'll try replacing that anyway. > >Jay > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: destef at mail.destef.com [mailto:destef at mail.destef.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 12:16 PM >> To: 'tclug-list at lists.real-time.com' >> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Evil spontaneously rebooting intel MB's >> >> >> Spontaneous reboots often point to bad RAM. Are you borrowing DIMMS >> from one board to the other? Just a shot in the dark idea. >> >> Jason >> >> >> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Austad, Jay wrote: >> >> > So I'm building this machine which is supposed to run >> without a video card. >> > I have 2 intel SE440BX2 PII400 MB's and chips. I boot the >> machine without >> > the video card in it, it boots fine, I can log into it over >> the network, and >> > then after being up for a few minutes it reboots. >> Sometimes it will reboot >> > even before the POST is done, so I know it's not the OS >> that's causing it. >> > Both boards do it, so I'm fairly sure it's not a problem >> with the hardware. >> > >> > >> > Does anyone know anything about this? I'm going to upgrade >> the BIOS and see >> > if that helps. I know the board will work without a video >> card, as many >> > companies who make x86 based network appliances use this >> exact same board. >> > >> > Jay >> > _______________________________________________ >> > tclug-list mailing list >> > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >> > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> tclug-list mailing list >> tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >> https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at lists.real-time.com >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >