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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:57am on 2005-11-25 under

Sometime around 6:30 this morning, the power went out at my house. (Once I got most of the LAN happy again and logged into my ISP, that was when the earliest of the email that hadn't gotten picked up yet was from.)

When I woke up, the Debian machine in the bedroom wouldn't come back on. It won't even run POST. No beeps, no video, nuffin. Well, the LED on the CD-ROM and the hard disk access LED on the front panel come on very briefly.

I'm getting tired of this.

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posted by [identity profile] malada.livejournal.com at 01:32am on 2005-11-26
Cross your fingers and install a new power supply. Usually it'll come right back up, although I have seen a bad power supply cook a motherboard.

Ouch.

-m
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:50am on 2005-11-28
I don't know that I have a backup of the right type of supply on hand (it's one of two machines with those newfangled power supplies; my spares-awaiting-testing are all AT style). But fortunately it came back to life after I mashed a thumb on the CPU ...
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posted by [identity profile] dmk.livejournal.com at 05:39pm on 2005-11-26
(WHC posting from DMK's machine)

If I could dig up a motherboard with a fast CPU and a large hard drive, could you just toss out the problematic systems and combine their functions into one machine?

If so, how fast is fast and how large is large?

Note that I don't have any idea where this stuff will come from, but I seem to be finding a lot of PC parts lately.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:45am on 2005-11-28
I run multiple machines partly to split the workload, partly to have multiple operating systems available without buying a copy of VMware, partly to have workstations in various rooms, ... I could see putting DNS, syslogd, web service, RDBMS, overnight comic strips downloading, and mail service all on the same box as the file server if it were studly enough (this collection of services is probably more RAM-bound than CPU-bound), but given a studly box I'd be ever so tempted to either make it a workstation or an application server instead -- and you know I'd find out the hard way how many Opera or GIMP windows it took to make it complain if I made a habit of using the same machine for those and everything else. But it'd let me cull the oldest and/or most troublesome machines anyhow.

(Problem is, I've got too many ideas for projects, some of which will be a little resource intensive. OTOH, I'm about to find out just how much faster a Sparcstation 5 is than a Sparcstation 2, and the number of "pizza boxes" has climbed to eight, so some of these projects will probably get Suns thrown at them.)

I'm not really sure how fast and how large it would take. (The "big disk" in the house now is the 40 gig in the file server. It's starting to get full, but it's also holding assorted software for three operating systems as well as everything else.)

I think I'd still want to keep PPP on a separate machine outside the firewall.

The Debian box (one of the newer machines in the house (and the fastest), which made its failure more surprising & alarming) did eventually start again after I pushed hard on the RAM and the CPU. It didn't feel like anything moved when I pushed on it, but I guess there was one bad connection on one pin somewhere.
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