October 21, 2025Oct 21 Community Expert Hello,After many years of flawless service, a few days ago my system renamed itself to "Tower" and lost some of its configuration information. A google search seemed to suggest that this was due to a faulty Flash USB stick, so after trying a few things there with no fix, I have no replaced that with a different USB stick, just running a trial version of 7.1.4 for now. The array boots okay and starts a parity rebuild, but fails repeatedly after just a few minutes. I enabled syslog and have two log files to attach. The server that this is running on is 13-14 years old now. I'm wondering if there is an underlying issue in my hardware, but I have zero idea of how to find that in the logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!Thank you,Bryan syslog-previous syslog
October 21, 2025Oct 21 Community Expert 40 minutes ago, cowger said:but fails repeatedly after just a few minutes.Do you mean the server crashes during the parity sync? That's typically a hardware problem, and I'm afraid there's nothing relevant logged, which is kind of expected in these cases.
October 21, 2025Oct 21 Author Community Expert 43 minutes ago, JorgeB said:Do you mean the server crashes during the parity sync? That's typically a hardware problem, and I'm afraid there's nothing relevant logged, which is kind of expected in these cases.Thank you, Jorge. By hardware problem, is it more likely the motherboard or a drive? If the former, then I think my next step is to replace that with new and hopefully get through a parity rebuild to get access to my files again.
October 21, 2025Oct 21 Community Expert If the server is crashing, it's unlikely that it's a drive; typically it's the board, CPU, RAM or PSU.
October 22, 2025Oct 22 Author Community Expert 3 minutes ago, JorgeB said:If the server is crashing, it's unlikely that it's a drive; typically it's the board, CPU, RAM or PSU.Okay, thank you! Buying new hardware...Bryan
October 26, 2025Oct 26 Author Community Expert Solution On 10/21/2025 at 10:52 AM, JorgeB said:If the server is crashing, it's unlikely that it's a drive; typically it's the board, CPU, RAM or PSU.Thanks again. I ordered all those pieces of hardware. While waiting for the new motherboard to arrive, I decided to install the new ATX power supply (everything else staying the same), just to test it out. Wouldn't you know it... everything is now fine. It's been doing a parity rebuild for 2 days now, problem-free. With the old PSU, it would crash every time within minutes. Beware of those 12 year old power supplies!!! ;-)Bryan
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