[AccessD] How to troubleshoot a blue screen

Gary Kjos garykjos at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 11:29:19 CDT 2012


Interesting that the Raid wouldn't have reacted to that failure better
than that. I'm not up on my Raid levels but 1 includes mirroring isn't
it?

GK

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Well, I got a blue screen today and when I went downstairs to look at the
> server, an SSD had failed.  I could not even detect it nor get past the bios
> where it was trying to detect SATA ports.  This box is stuffed with drives
> so I started with the SSDs (the most likely culprit) disconnecting all 4 (I
> could now boot) and then one at a time until I found the one drive.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
>
> Reality is what refuses to go away
> when you do not believe in it
>
>
> On 6/16/2012 10:53 AM, jwcolby wrote:
>>
>> My SQL Server blue screens about once a month or so.  It does not appear
>> to be heat related, or at
>> least CPU heat related as I have top flight HSFs which hold the temps
>> below 35 C.  The temps in the
>> case stay around that temperature or below.  The blue screens appear to be
>> SQL Server related, as
>> they seem to be triggered by my doing something in SSMS.  This last time I
>> started an update query
>> and it immediately blue screened, by which I mean I clicked start (the
>> query) and the blue screen
>> occurred.
>>
>> This is an AMD dual cpu server, both CPUs populated.  32 gigs ECC RAM on
>> each side.  Being a server
>> there is no overclocking.  There is a lot going on hardware wise however.
>>  I use an Areca 16 port
>> RAID controller, RAID 6 arrays built from 1 tb WD black drives.  I am
>> using SSDs to create a Raid1
>> array hosting several of my Read Mostly databases.  The specific update
>> that caused the blue screen
>> was not on SSD however, it was on the Areca rotating media raid 6.
>>
>> I am at a loss on how to troubleshoot.  It "feels" like it must be a
>> memory problem, and yet the
>> memory is ECC.  Perhaps I have a bad DIMM which just flakes out.
>>
>
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