Trouble with my new Compaq DL380

[kulua at linux2themax.com]

"Jon Moss" <jon.moss at cnonline.net> wrote ..
> Thanks to my son and husband, I may be rebuilding my new web server.  The
> Compaq DL380 will not boot up.  It briefly acquires it's IP address but
> after about 5 minutes, the IP address "disappears" from my network!  I've
> tried two different monitors, once loads X, it "disappears" from the
> monitors also!
> 
> I can get the server up booting from the CD and using linux rescue.  I
> was
> able to run backups of MySQL data and backup all the pertinent files. 
> My
> site is running on a "backup" workstation/server temporarily.
> 
> My question is - should I completely scrap this install of Fedora Core
> 2
> on the Compaq DL380?  Do I have other alternatives?  I plan on tackling
> this project tomorrow morning, so I hope a few of you will give me some
> ideas and suggestions.
> 
> Baffled,
> 
> Jon Moss
my first question would be is  have you tried going to runlevel 3 to see if somthin during boot fails then looking at whats running process wise maybe somthing has gone amuck and eats up all the system resorses?  or somthing of the sort.