System shutdown on boot: software or hardware?

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:42:33 -0800
>From: "Mureika, Jonas" <jmureika at lmu.edu>  
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>Beginning about two weeks ago, I noticed that my Enterprise Server (WS) running on a Dell Dual Processor machine started to spontaneously reboot.  The problem became more frequent, and this morning I discovered that I cannot boot the system to completion.  The machine is still running, but the video signal to the monitor seems to be cut.  I thought this may just be a monitor problem, but I cannot access the machine remotely either.
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>Has anyone else experienced similar problems?  Does this sound like a software issue that can be fixed with a patch, or a hardware issue?   The machine is almost 3 years old, and has never given me problems in the past.  Any insight would be very much appreciated.

Have you checked syslog? I'm afraid that it sounds to me like a memory or m/b problem....

     mark, who needs to do something about his wife's m/b....