Total disaster.
I was woken at 10 AM or so (I'm on holiday) by the distinctive sound of capacitors exploding. There are several items in the room which contain potentially volatile capacitors, but I was alerted to the location of the culprit by plumes of smoke eminating from the drawer in which sits the mail/FTP server. And I mean plumes of smoke. So much smoke that I can still smell the electrolyte now, 8 hours later. Turns out the input capacitors on the power supply had commited suicide
So off to Maplins I go, to get a Yum-Cha white box power supply to get the box back up. Plugged it in. Host up. All good.
Then I get back from lunch, and it's down again. Permanently. What I think has happened is some electrolyte or debris from the exploded caps has shorted the motherboard.
Anyhoo, I've transferred all the services to the main machine, so I'll have to suffer the noise from its 5 80MM fans during the night.
Arse.
I was woken at 10 AM or so (I'm on holiday) by the distinctive sound of capacitors exploding. There are several items in the room which contain potentially volatile capacitors, but I was alerted to the location of the culprit by plumes of smoke eminating from the drawer in which sits the mail/FTP server. And I mean plumes of smoke. So much smoke that I can still smell the electrolyte now, 8 hours later. Turns out the input capacitors on the power supply had commited suicide
So off to Maplins I go, to get a Yum-Cha white box power supply to get the box back up. Plugged it in. Host up. All good.
Then I get back from lunch, and it's down again. Permanently. What I think has happened is some electrolyte or debris from the exploded caps has shorted the motherboard.
Anyhoo, I've transferred all the services to the main machine, so I'll have to suffer the noise from its 5 80MM fans during the night.
Arse.
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