So I've had my server running fine for a couple of years now.

I chose to upgrade the hard drives a couple of days ago, but since changing it has become unstable.

What I mean is, it gets up and running then it starts a parity check, this continues on for some time but eventually just crashes. I can no longer see it through the web ui nor can i telnet to it.

I read the wiki and figured the problem was that i was using a dual rail OCZ 500W psu, and maybe the extra drives was putting it over the edge.

So today I went out and bought a brand new Corsair 500W single rail, hoping that this would sort it. Unfortunately not 10 mins after booting up, it was down again.

So just now I plugged in a monitor/keyboard, let it boot and left it.. after 15 mins I went back to check it and had crashed and the monitor was showing the following:  (completely frozen, can't type anything)

 

Does anyone have any idea what that means?

 

Thanks in advance.

I chose to upgrade the hard drives a couple of days ago, but since changing it has become unstable.

Did you preclear the drives and check smart reports before you added the drives to the array? Do you still have the old drives with the data on them?

 

Next time you boot the array and it starts the parity check, let it run for a couple minutes, then capture the syslog, zip it up, and attach it to your post.

I chose to upgrade the hard drives a couple of days ago, but since changing it has become unstable.

Did you preclear the drives and check smart reports before you added the drives to the array? Do you still have the old drives with the data on them?

 

Next time you boot the array and it starts the parity check, let it run for a couple minutes, then capture the syslog, zip it up, and attach it to your post.

kernel errors are most frequently memory errors.

run a memory test.  Might also want to verify the ram strips are running at the correct timing, voltage, and clock speed.