Dazed and confused - unknown system restart

Feb 02, 2008

- thanks for helping, I'll try that soon, and see if that works. I'll give you a reply if that works.

Thanks again for the help!

Feb 04, 2008

- Hey daverh,

I looked thoroughly for power management options, ACPI and power saving on the BIOS, and there is no option for this.
I remember there is power saving mode in the O.S., but is that going to help if its disabled on the O.S.
If i should disable it on the Fedora Core 4, what are the steps to disable it.

thanks

Feb 05, 2008

- the first time i came about this unknown restart, I though maybe if i update it, it will fix the restart issue, i updated the BIOS a couple of times which didn't solve the problem.
Well the strange thing about this that when i changed one of the PPPoE servers recently to a different type of server by just exchanging both hard drives with 2 hard drives that already got all the setup, O.S, programs installed. and just 2 network interfaces linked. 2 other interfaces not linked - system never restarts. this server is for hotspot page and prepaid services and has its own database which is ok but not so stable and thats y we are using also PPPoE servers. I regularly check the logs and no restarts. It's same hardware as the other PPPoE server but just different services running with the same Fedora Core 4. Now i have a feeling maybe the O.S has problems with 4 network interfaces running at the same time or it can be something in the PPPoE scripts running. Well the configurations of these servers i didn't made them. The configurations was done by a team that came here and did all these. All the other servers from the PPPoE servers don't have this restart issue and the others all have 1 or 2 network interfaces linked. I can't take none of the other network interfaces off because all the 4 network interfaces linked are running each for a purpose. 1 is the External (backbone internet), Internal (SNMP and RADIUS(Database Authentication)) DMZ (IIS linked & Mail) and 4th is Wifi (linked to wifi transmitters). The team left has a quick sketch of the services, network, and firewall configurations. I can go into each of the servers and find out exactly what scripts are in, but its hustle to understand these scripts lol.

thanks for your time and help.
The ASU sounds good, i will look for it and see if i can view power saving mode and ACPI options.

thanks