I've seen this before with a failing power supply. I've also seen this associated with a bad motherboard. I have (sadly) also seen this once associated with software that tried to put a system to sleep and just sent a power off instead. I doubt that software is the culprit in this case since it appears this is a home server and would not have need for sleep modes.<br>
<br>I would be most suspicious of power supply first. It's the easiest to change and lest expensive. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Paul Cartwright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale@pcartwright.com">ale@pcartwright.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">I'm still trying to figure out what happened. It doesn't look like there was a<br>
power outage ( no blinking alarm clocks ). My wife got up at 4am, and the<br>
computer was not on. My log shows nothing in the APC_events file, except the<br>
computer starting back up.<br>
syslog.0 shows:<br>
<br>
Jun 28 22:20:50 paulandcilla last message repeated 8 times<br>
Jun 29 04:07:41 paulandcilla syslogd 1.5.0#5: restart.<br>
Jun 29 04:07:41 paulandcilla kernel: klogd 1.5.0#5, log source = /proc/kmsg<br>
started.<br>
<br>
that 22:20 message is an email host mismatch error.. so it was receiving<br>
email, then... my wife hits the POWER switch at 4:07, to turn it back on. I<br>
have an APC UPS attached, that will shut it down in case of power outage,<br>
then UPS is on, and I'm not sure why the PC was off....<br>
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