The uber-server (a 4 year old Dell Poweredge 4400) has been fixed. Apparently a client of ours was uploading a ~1gig file onto our extranet. The entire file was been buffered in memory before being written to disk. This caused a great deal of swapping (we don't have that much ram on the server) which eventually caused a memory fault due to a flakey DIMM. We quickly figured out what the problem was and tried to isolate the problem DIMM... only to find that the machine would no longer boot at all. _PANIC_ It would just freeze at the first stage of loading the bios. I suspected we were doomed and prepared for the worst (moving the RAID array to another machine or recovering from backups.) I decided to wait till the next morning to tackle it. That's when a bright fellow nocitced that the keyboad cable was unplugged. It was reinserted, and the machine happily rebooted. Duh. I'm mad on many levels, but most of it focuses on Dell, who built a server machine that a) needs a keyboard and b) doesn't even warn if it is unplugged. Every other keyboard dependant machine at least gives you the "keyboard error: press F1 to continue" message. What in the hell were they thinking?