Unresponsive server with fast scrolling text

[djuniah]

Twice in the past couple months my server has gone completely non responsive and when a monitor is hooked up, all i see is very rapidly scrolling text.  I took a video of it this time to see if anyone can give me a place to start investigating.  I assume this is probably a kernel panic, but i'm not really sure.  Here is what i'm seeing: https://streamable.com/fc97w

 

After resetting everything is fine and it runs a parity check.  Server logs seem to be wiped on restart.  is there any sort of log i can look at to get to the bottom of this?

 

EDIT: I also took some static pictures of it to try and read some of the text, however the refresh rates and exposure times were making it tough and a lot of it bleeds together.  I see my motherboard system name shown in some of it, "rewind_stack_do_exit", and other things.  Here's one of the better pictures: 

 

Edited May 14, 2017 by djuniah

[ashman70]

Install the fix common problems plugin and set it to troubleshooting mode. If you haven't done a memtest do one and upload your diagnostics for a start. 

[djuniah]

I've done a memtest and everything passed.  I also have fix common problems but haven't done a troubleshoot.  This only happens on a rare occasion (once every couple weeks).  Do I need to leave it running in troubleshoot that whole time?

[ashman70]

Yes

[djuniah]

Doesn't that constantly write data(syslog) to the flash drive?  If that's true and my issue only happens every few weeks, wouldn't that very quickly wear out my boot drive?