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jensvejmand

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Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 3

hard crash on large file transfer

Hello,

OK so I have this server, and whenever i try to scp a large file (~1GB) onto it, it locks up hard anywhere from 3-80%. No ping, ssh, keyboard, the framebuffer even locks up.

It's an old intel 440bx board(tyan tiger 100 1832DL to be exact) w/ dual PII Deschutes processors @ 400mhz. Currently it has 128mb ram because I want to be sure it's not a ram conflict of some kind.

Things I've done:
-tested the single stick w/ memtest86+, passed about 12 runs
-swapped the hard drive
-swapped the nic (same module 8139too though)
-swapped the ide cable
-swapped the video card (!)
-went through every single BIOS setting w/ the manual
-dd'd 28GB worth of /dev/zero to a hard drive on the second ide channel 
-checked for IRQ conflicts
-done cpu-burn etc. temperature never went above 48C

I'm just about to swap the power supply, but I've been at this for over a week now and getting kind of burnt out. I was just wondering if there were any knowledgeable people here who might know what's going on?

Is it just a bad board? If not, is it going to die soon anyway?

I'm thinking it might be a PCI (or southbridge) problem, but I'm not really sure where to go from here.

logs don't show much either :(

thank you!

Last edited by jensvejmand (2008-06-12 22:52:02)

Zer0

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From: Windsor, ON, Canada

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 299

Re: hard crash on large file transfer

Maybe transfer a file using something else like FTP too rule out if it's software or hardware related.

jensvejmand

Member

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 3

Re: hard crash on large file transfer

I just tried ftp'ing the file and the server crashed within 3 seconds... :(

update: it wasn't the power supply.

Last edited by jensvejmand (2008-06-13 23:05:51)