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pheloniusfriarI tried to connect to my server from work earlier today and it did not respond. We had some serious storms go through the area today so I figured here was a power outage that lasted longer than the short time I have in my little UPS (there were reports of possible tornadoes just to the east of the city, still waiting to hear news of whether there was or not... although a hundred thousand people were without power in the Montreal area earlier, many are still waiting for power to be restored). I asked Beep to turn on the server when they got home and said they did... except, it was my flight simulator that they turned on, heh. Not a big deal, but I went down to turn it on myself when I got home.
Nothing.
No fan. No lights. No nothing.
Unplugged from UPS and plugged directly into the wall.
Not a whisper or stir of life. <gulp> <sweatles>
Had to run out and do some errands, but when I came home, I hauled the server upstairs to work on it, cracked a bottle of 2010 Monasterio de las Viñas Grand Reserva, and started to work. Pulled out the power supply and opened it up. Checked the internal fuse: it was fine. Got a jumper wire and shorted the PS_ON signal (green wire) to the ground beside it (black wire), plugged in the supply and ... nothing at all. Turned it off and there was a weird hissing noise for a few seconds and then silence. Being a scientist, I did it again with identical results.
'nuf said ;).
This was potentially good news because I was then sure the power supply was fried, and that might be the only problem, but I didn't know yet whether the motherboard or any other parts got cooked at the same time.
I had a spare power supply from a previous system I had built, but had to remove to upgrade to a newer power supply when I got a fancy graphics card for it that needed additional power, so I went down to the basement to get that. I tried the PS_ON trick and the fan started to turn, so that was a good sign. I installed it in the system (it was better suited for the server than the one I had in there it turns out), connected everything up, plugged it in, turned on the system, and ... power lights. I turned it off right away before it could boot (it runs Linux), and brought it down, hooked it up, and boop, beep, blorp it came up perfectly the first time!
<phew!>
I do regular backups, but I just did some intense coding the past couple of days and had not done one in the interim, so that would have been a serious pisser if I'd lost the hard drives, for instance (I find it really hard to rewrite code after it has been lost, I don't know why it gives me extra grief beyond the basic annoyance of having to do it).
So crisis averted, and the wine turned out to be very, very nice.
I leave you with this absolutely delightful music video... the animation is wondrous!
Nothing.
No fan. No lights. No nothing.
Unplugged from UPS and plugged directly into the wall.
Not a whisper or stir of life. <gulp> <sweatles>
Had to run out and do some errands, but when I came home, I hauled the server upstairs to work on it, cracked a bottle of 2010 Monasterio de las Viñas Grand Reserva, and started to work. Pulled out the power supply and opened it up. Checked the internal fuse: it was fine. Got a jumper wire and shorted the PS_ON signal (green wire) to the ground beside it (black wire), plugged in the supply and ... nothing at all. Turned it off and there was a weird hissing noise for a few seconds and then silence. Being a scientist, I did it again with identical results.
'nuf said ;).
This was potentially good news because I was then sure the power supply was fried, and that might be the only problem, but I didn't know yet whether the motherboard or any other parts got cooked at the same time.
I had a spare power supply from a previous system I had built, but had to remove to upgrade to a newer power supply when I got a fancy graphics card for it that needed additional power, so I went down to the basement to get that. I tried the PS_ON trick and the fan started to turn, so that was a good sign. I installed it in the system (it was better suited for the server than the one I had in there it turns out), connected everything up, plugged it in, turned on the system, and ... power lights. I turned it off right away before it could boot (it runs Linux), and brought it down, hooked it up, and boop, beep, blorp it came up perfectly the first time!
<phew!>
I do regular backups, but I just did some intense coding the past couple of days and had not done one in the interim, so that would have been a serious pisser if I'd lost the hard drives, for instance (I find it really hard to rewrite code after it has been lost, I don't know why it gives me extra grief beyond the basic annoyance of having to do it).
So crisis averted, and the wine turned out to be very, very nice.
I leave you with this absolutely delightful music video... the animation is wondrous!
