Computer randomly locks up

Renza · 10th July 2012, 7:40 PM

Hi guys,

Got my file server here. been working fine for the past year until the weekend. Works fine, but approx 1 hour in it will lock up. Specs are:

Gigabyte Z68-D2S-B3
Intel i7 2600, stock with stock cooler
8gb corsair ram (2x4gb)
Triple redundant psu in the rack mount chassis
2x Crucial m4 60gb in raid1 for boot
8x Hitachi 3tb drives
IBM M1015 flashed to IT mode
Intel dual gigabit nic
Windows 7 Pro

Have tried swapping the ram out (put 2x2gb of Corsair I had spare). CPU temps were also a little high, so I reseated the hsf and put some new paste. Temps dropped, idle around 38c. Tried updating all drivers as well, to no avail

I'm thinking somethings up with the board. anyone got ideas?

NNNG · 10th July 2012, 11:35 PM

After about 5200 hours power on time, Crucial M4 SSDs can cause that issue. Update their firmware.

Asteroid · 11th July 2012, 12:58 AM

Stock cooler... have a good hard look at the plastic mounting clips. They were infamous for breaking causing the cooler to sit crooked. Awful design.

Renza · 11th July 2012, 3:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asteroid

Stock cooler... have a good hard look at the plastic mounting clips. They were infamous for breaking causing the cooler to sit crooked. Awful design.

I reseated it, pressure on the CPU is firm and even, and all the clips are intact.

Quote:

Originally Posted by NNNG

After about 5200 hours power on time, Crucial M4 SSDs can cause that issue. Update their firmware.

oh yeh good point! I'll give that a shot tomorrow. 5200 hours is around 216 days, which puts it somewhere in the first week of December - exactly when I installed the server. Sounds like its on the money

edit:

Quote:

Crucial quickly released a firmware update for the 5200 hour bug recently found on the popular m4 SSD. This bug would cause systems that reached a total of 5184 hours on their m4 SSD to become unstable. Once restarted systems would be stable until another hour had passed.

which is exactly the symptoms I'm seeing! I'd totally forgotten about all the initial issues with the m4...

10th July 2012, 7:40 PM	#1
Renza Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Adelaide, 5051 Posts: 3,011	Computer randomly locks up Hi guys, Got my file server here. been working fine for the past year until the weekend. Works fine, but approx 1 hour in it will lock up. Specs are: Gigabyte Z68-D2S-B3 Intel i7 2600, stock with stock cooler 8gb corsair ram (2x4gb) Triple redundant psu in the rack mount chassis 2x Crucial m4 60gb in raid1 for boot 8x Hitachi 3tb drives IBM M1015 flashed to IT mode Intel dual gigabit nic Windows 7 Pro Have tried swapping the ram out (put 2x2gb of Corsair I had spare). CPU temps were also a little high, so I reseated the hsf and put some new paste. Temps dropped, idle around 38c. Tried updating all drivers as well, to no avail I'm thinking somethings up with the board. anyone got ideas? __________________ i7 3770K @ 4.5ghz \| AsRock Z77 Professional \| 16gb Corsair Vengence 1600mhz \| Gigabyte GTX580 \| Seasonic X750 \| Silverstone TJ07 \| Crucial M4 256GB \| 2x Dell 2407WFP Canon 5D Mark II \| Canon EF 24-70 f/2.8L \| Canon EF 17-40 f/4L \| Canon EF 70-200 f/2.8L IS \| Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 \| Canon EX-580II \| Manfrotto 190 Pro B Traded over $22,000 on OCAU! - PM for recent traders Last edited by Renza; 10th July 2012 at 11:09 PM.

10th July 2012, 11:35 PM	#2
NNNG Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: SE Melbourne. Posts: 1,289	After about 5200 hours power on time, Crucial M4 SSDs can cause that issue. Update their firmware. __________________ \| i5-3570K @ 4.4 \| Z77X-UD3H \| 16GB DDR3-1866 \| GTX 570 OC \| Corsair HX620 \| Antec P280 \| 160GB X18-M G2 \| Filco TKL \| Crossover 27Q (2560x1440, IPS) \| + $900 of trades.

11th July 2012, 12:58 AM	#3
Asteroid Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Lapping Freo Posts: 2,248	Stock cooler... have a good hard look at the plastic mounting clips. They were infamous for breaking causing the cooler to sit crooked. Awful design. __________________ The boxen: A8-3870/ F1A75-V Pro/ 8GB \| A64 3000+/ K8V-X/ 1,25GB \| X230 ThinkPad