Re: [GENERAL] Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable (fwd) - OpenBIOS

21 Mar 2000


      Here's why we need to KILL the BIOS
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:52:57 -0800
From: Arthur M. Kang arthur@levelogic.com
To: Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org
Cc: "[iso-8859-1] Pawe� Dubin" paweld@suimed.tpnet.pl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
     pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable
Had this rebooting problem before for a while and it drove me NUTZ!  Installed RedHat
and FreeBSD and both rebooted periodically.  Don't know if my solution will help or not,
but what was causing my reboots was the system BIOS.  The options for Power Management
in the system BIOS should have some settings for the monitor as well as the hard drive.
I was finding that the spinning down of the hard drive caused the machine to reboot.  No
traces in any error logs or anything...
Hope that helps somebody...somewhere...  :)
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