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Smoking Motherboards
By Howard Young | July 28, 2007
I managed to fry my motherboard with a little help from Southern Cal Edison. They’ve been having power outages in Thousand Oaks with the last one causing all my servers to shutdown after the UPS ran out of juice.
ClknGo Server 1 (cngs1) is a Win2k server that automatically shuts down via a signal from the UPS when the power is on battery backup.
Pacific Landmark Server 1 (plms1) is a Linux (Red Hat 9), but doesn’t have driver installed to automatically shutdown … so that means, if I’m at home, I shut it down when the lights go out.
My workstation, I. M. Mortal Jr., also on a UPS, shutdown but when the power came up, the power supply was in a weird mode and smoked the motherboard when I turned the UPS back on. The data on the disk drive was OK and I was able to boot the drive off my old HP (I. M. Mortal) which I recently retired after 7 years of faithful use.
I don’t have the time to put together a new system right now so, I. M. Mortal III is now a Dell Optiplex. Dell did a great job of getting it out to me in 3 business days. Luckily, I’ve been converting everything to run on Microsoft Virtual PC since it’s so convenient — and in the case of a fried system — it’s so easy to get back up and running again.
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