Server Keeps Crashing

[Himay]

Hello,

 

I'm hoping someone can help me troubleshoot an issue I've been having where my server becomes unresponsive and I have to power cycle. This happens every couple of days. I've attached the syslog and diagnostics.

 

Thanks

tower-diagnostics-20230508-1942.zip syslog

[trurl]

Have you done memtest?

[Himay]

If i try to select the memtest option from the boot menu, it just reboots my server.

[JorgeB]

It only supports legacy/CSM boot, if you can only boot UEFI download and run the free Passmark memtest.

[Himay]

Thanks. I downloaded and ran the free Passmark memtest. I'm getting a ton of memory errors. I have two 8GB sticks. I've tried testing both separately and they both produce errors. One produces fewer errors than the other. I'm going top try running the server with the better stick while I order new RAM. I'm only running a couple of Docker containers so even with 8GB I'm OK. Odd that both sticks went bad,

[trurl]

1 hour ago, Himay said:

One produces fewer errors than the other. I'm going top try running the server with the better stick while I order new RAM.

You shouldn't even attempt to run any computer unless RAM is working perfectly. Everything goes through RAM. The OS and other executable code, your data, everything. The CPU can't even do anything with anything until it is loaded into RAM.

[Himay]

I received my new RAM today and memtest now runs without errors. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!