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      gohtar345
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      Recently, about a week or two ago, my pfsense server starting going down at least once every 24 hours.  I was running version 1.2.  A few days ago I updated it to 1.2.2 and now I am lucky if the server stays running for 12 hours.

      I have plugged a monitor and keyboard in to the system and waited for another crash, when it crashed again I went to the keyboard and even the shell menu is non-responsive.

      I am not sure where to start on troubleshooting this one, I am leaning towards hardware issue, since it just popped up and happens on 2 versions of the OS.  Are there any logs I can look at through SSH?  I have tried to view the system log in the web portal it only goes back to when I reboot to make the server work again.

      My server is running on a supermicro mobo, dual P3 667 mhz cpus, 1 gig ram, 20 gig SCSI hdd, one builtin NIC and one added NIC, i don't recall specifics about the NICs right now, I am at work and the server has crashed again.

      Thanks

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        Guest
        last edited by

        This is absolutely hardware related.

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          gohtar345
          last edited by

          I checked the ram with Memtest, and ran a data verifier on the HDDs.  Is there anyway to narrow down what the issue might be.  I looked at the NICs when the server was frozen, they were still blinking.

          Thanks

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            Cry Havok
            last edited by

            In order I'd look at:

            • PSU

            • Cooling (CPU and case)

            • Motherboard

            • CPU

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