Re: t/s old hardware failure

On 07/06/14 16:44, [email protected] wrote:
> I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a
> cacti server, has been in use as is for several years, no screen, no kbd,
> last power down was about 1 year ago
>
> today I noticed it's down, as there is no screen no keybd, I just hit
> reset, but, it didn't come up
>
> once the screen was attached I saw it was stopped on BIOS screen after:
>
> Pri. M HDD SMART enabled
> Pri. S HDD SMART enabled
>
> PCI device listing/IRQ
> (list)
> -----
>
> rebooted to BIOS, set 'fail safe', booted OK
> rebooted to BIOS, set 'optimal', booted OK
>
> working fine again
>
> is there any logs that might point out why it stopped earlier ?
>
> any diags to try running ?
>
> 2.6.18-308.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Jul 10 08:49:28 EDT 2012 i686 i686 i386
>
> top - 16:38:48 up  1:15,  1 user,  load average: 0.24, 0.56, 0.68
> Tasks: 110 total,   2 running, 108 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> Cpu(s):  0.0%us,  0.0%sy,  0.0%ni,100.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,
> 0.0%st
> Mem:   1002124k total,   492440k used,   509684k free,    24048k buffers
> Swap:  2031608k total,        0k used,  2031608k free,   340848k cached
>
>
I'd bet cmos battery flat or nearly so.
Also +1 to take a look at the power consumption, P4's are notorious for 
power consumption, if its just cacti something low power would suffice.
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