jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Jun 19 11:54:24 CDT 2012
Yea, and I am going to do that. With 64 gigs of memory it will be more than "a few hours"! ;) It may be that the problem was a SSD which died Monday morning. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 6/19/2012 9:17 AM, Francisco Tapia wrote: > 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> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >