[AccessD] Can anyone help me with this

[John Colby]

I actually purchased an identical MB and swapped it out, before I 
discovered the "keep it active" trick.

The file system is totally run off of a hardware raid controller.  
Mostly Raid 6.  Boot is raid 5.


On 10/15/2017 4:18 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> I think you may be on to something.
>
> Check all the features in them motherboards BIOS. Has John checked the motherboared's tech documentation? As the motherboard has been around for a while, if this is a hardware issue then someone would have posted a comment or two.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2017 9:03:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Can anyone help me with this
>
> John,
>
> Is it possible that the behaviour occurs at the hardware level, rather than
> the OS or SQL Server? I'm thinking of Energy Conservation settings. I have
> a tower I have that randomly shuts off and just as randomly turns back on.
> If I intrude, i.e. press the power button while the machine is in "shut
> off" mode, then it comes back to life much more quickly than after a cold
> boot, and it returns to precisely where I left it. It also seems, although
> I haven't verified this, that if I run gmail on that machine (since I get a
> lot of email), that seems to preserve the connection and prevent the
> shutdown.
>
> Arthur
>

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John W. Colby