Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Michael Hennebry wrote: >>> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013, John R Pierce wrote: >>>> On 11/24/2013 9:45 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote: >>>>> CentOS 6.4 died on me again. >>>> >>>> only time that has EVER happened to me, on dozens and dozens of >>>> systems, has been when there's been a serious hardware problem. >>> >>> I really do not know whether to hope you are correct. >>> On one hand a new computer would be expensive. >>> On the other, if it's something else, >>> my diagnostic skills are clearly not up to the task. >>> >> What kind of m/b is this, and what are you running on it? We've had that >> happen occasionally on the 48 and 64 core Penguins, which are all > > The computer is a DakTEch Freedom 4 P4 DDR System. > The system board is a D865GBFL w/LAN,audio & video > Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz 800FSB > I got it in 2006. <snip> It is getting long in the tooth. (I'm about to replace my m/b of the same vintage at home.) Interesting thought: if you go into the BIOS, there's no system event log, is there? That's normally a server thing, but who knows.... I can't imagine how you killed a video card by installing a hard drive. Next question: is the system in a room with HVAC? Have you tried opening it up, and vacuuming dust out of the power supply and anywhere else (like the video card)? I remember seeing a picture online a few years ago, where someone cut open a power supply, and found a lizard, too large to get out.... mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos