My work pc has been randomly rebooting for a while. The reboot is pretty random, doing nothing in particular there is a brief BSOD, it reboots and I say some rude words.
This reboot became particulary bad while I was trying to copy some vmware virtual machine snapshots: 2G worth of files. It couldn't copy more than two without a reboot. I am about to start some serious vmware use so I needed to get this sorted.
The googling I did blamed the problem on cheap RAM which is a possibility as the PC is a generic beige box made from cheap parts. However, before spending money I decided to look for a BIOS upgrade and sure enough one was available so I flashed the motherboard from the B6 revision to CN.
I tried to reboot the PC and it wouldn't start up: no beeps, just dead. I didn't panic, while mentally going through possible emergency procedures I reset the CMOS memory and all was well.
I've done a total of six vmware copies now and it hasn't shown the problem. It could be that the ambient temperature is not right but still things are looking good. If it fails again I will update here, hopefully without the rude words.
Peter's Moblog
