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[Roscop]

As title suggests I am stuck.

 I have a headless server that runs windows home server up in the loft and it keeps restarting at what seems to be random times. I only notice it when I am streaming movies from it but it appears to do it even when its sitting idle and its begining to get quite annoying.

first I thought it may be the PSU was on its way out but I have swapped it for a known working one and its still doing it.

It doesnt appear to be an overheating issue either as temps are well with in normal limits.

I have removed 2 of the older HDD's to see if they are causing an issue but i doubt it as HD tune says they are ok.

It has been running almost 24/7 for the last 18 months but I would expect the mobo/cpu to have a longer lifespan than that

Any other ideas are welcome cause its lost on me

[Wooster]

My money is on a memory problem.
Can you run it with one stick for a bit?

..also, is there anything in the event logs?

[Roscop]

Ahem... There was nowt there that stood out but I had a good search through and noticed that it was not a random restart its exactly 2 hours between them  . So turns out my 'evaluation' has run out will need to sort that out

[Wooster]

Well spotted.. 

[Thermalsig]

Ahem... There was nowt there that stood out but I had a good search through and noticed that it was not a random restart its exactly 2 hours between them  . So turns out my 'evaluation' has run out will need to sort that out

Coolness, all you have to do is reassemble now.