Need Help - N40L keeps crashing

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Leo Levosky

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Hi,

Not sure what section I should be posting this in?

I have an HP N40L which has been running WHS 2011 fine for a long time. Now it keeps powering itself off (orange light rather than green) and I don't know what this means. Does it mean WHS is crashing or does it mean a hardware failure? It is doing it almost daily now and I don't know how to work out what is happening.

If the hardware is okay what operating system would you suggest putting on it now? It is just acting as a file server and running LMS server for my Squeezeboxes.

Thanks,

Leo
 

Stephan

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Server is in standby then? Connect a USB keyboard and press Ctrl, Space or Return. Or try a mouse, click left. Does server come back up?
 

Leo Levosky

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The server comes back when I press the power button but it goes back to standby sometime later. That time can be an hour, a day or a couple of days. What I don't understand is whether this means a hardware issue or just WHS crashing.
 

WANg

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The server comes back when I press the power button but it goes back to standby sometime later. That time can be an hour, a day or a couple of days. What I don't understand is whether this means a hardware issue or just WHS crashing.
Does event viewer in WHS2011 show anything like a BSOD? If not, I am going to guess that it's the PSU (power supply) falling off a cliff. To test that, just run any Linux LiveCD, put a heavy system load through it for, say, 10-15 minutes. If it still does that, it's the PSU.
 

WANg

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Is it possible the power settings are messed up and it sleeps when idle?
Could be, but you did say that the machine only comes out of sleep using a push off the power button (and nothing else)...right? Or does a click off a USB mouse or a tap off the keyboard work as well?