I've recently installed a server in colocation, and my server is rebooting every 4.5-5.5 minutes. Regardless of the OS I run, it reboots. I have all ECC memory in the server, so it should correct errors if there is a bad bit in the memory, right? It's weird because it always happens about 4.5-5.5 minutes after bootup. My motherboard is a Supermicro X8DTL-iF. I read on a blog that another person had the problem, and supermicro recommended to do a BIOS update. Is this the right course of action?
Server reboots every 4.5-5.5 minutes
supermicro
Best Answer
Fixed this problem by disabled the Watchdog function in my BIOS. It was rebooting my server every five minutes for some really weird reason. Oh well, at least no hardware is bad! :)