Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Tue Jun 19 08:17:40 CDT 2012
if you have some time, you can test the RAM easily by just downloading the memtest application to a cd rom boot to it let it run for a few hours, if it's ram related it'll show up in the monitor. http://www.memtest.org/ -Francisco http://bit.ly/sqlthis | Tsql and More... Let Apple know you want turn by turn on your iPhone 4! https://plus.google.com/112803888444646122406/posts/HmQej9pHZQM <http://db.tt/JeXURAx> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 7:53 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>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. > > -- > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > > Reality is what refuses to go away > when you do not believe in it > > > ______________________________**_________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer@**databaseadvisors.com <dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com> > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver> > http://www.databaseadvisors.**com <http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > >