2005-06-30, 05:01 AM
I may be reaching here...but just curious if anyone else has had similar issues. I have a Dell 400SC 2gig w/ 768 RAM, pvr350 + pvr250 and it's 'almost' running perfect! handful of plugins all working well so far. Only 2 80gig drives so far, but getting larger...
The other night I was doing a dvd-mpg and when i went back down to check, I had a rebooted black screen stating no hard drives can be found. I then powered off, back on, and voila, back to normal. I continued to play around with it and kept seeing it rebooted to the same state when i checked again. nothing in the logs at all that I can see.
Assuming it was the ripping process that was causing some type of funkiness with my hardware, I left it alone for the night...only to find that around noon the next day it did the same exact thing.
I would guess hardware related problems, but this server ran perfect for 1 1/2 years as a mail server never doing this. Seems like something with the hard drive controller, but like I said, it seems odd I never had problems. My next guess is possibly heat or power issues...but it's a pretty beefy server with a good size power supply. However, I do have the 2 pvr power hogs though, video card, usb/firewire card, 2 hd's, dvd burner and cd-rom...so tonight I yanked the cd-rom and the firewire card and i'll play the sitting game. Just wanted to see if anyone had seen anything like this or any other ideas to try. I have the latest drivers from Hauppage and all the gbpver stuff should be all up-to-date.
Thanks!
The other night I was doing a dvd-mpg and when i went back down to check, I had a rebooted black screen stating no hard drives can be found. I then powered off, back on, and voila, back to normal. I continued to play around with it and kept seeing it rebooted to the same state when i checked again. nothing in the logs at all that I can see.
Assuming it was the ripping process that was causing some type of funkiness with my hardware, I left it alone for the night...only to find that around noon the next day it did the same exact thing.
I would guess hardware related problems, but this server ran perfect for 1 1/2 years as a mail server never doing this. Seems like something with the hard drive controller, but like I said, it seems odd I never had problems. My next guess is possibly heat or power issues...but it's a pretty beefy server with a good size power supply. However, I do have the 2 pvr power hogs though, video card, usb/firewire card, 2 hd's, dvd burner and cd-rom...so tonight I yanked the cd-rom and the firewire card and i'll play the sitting game. Just wanted to see if anyone had seen anything like this or any other ideas to try. I have the latest drivers from Hauppage and all the gbpver stuff should be all up-to-date.
Thanks!