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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 09:11
To:	ALL	1 of 33

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Well, dead server :@ Seems to have died overnight. Disconnected all hard drives and it still won't POST. Just CPU and RAM, running off on board video and the fans spin but that's it. No beeps. Moved the RAM to a different slot. How on earth do I diagnose this?! Feels like I need to but a new CPU/Mobo/RAM because how else cam I diagnose what's up? I don't have spares of similar varieties to test. A

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From:	graphitone	8 Jan 2017 09:15
To:	ANT_THOMAS	2 of 33

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Have you got a multimeter to test the PSU first? Or whack the PSU into another PC if you've got one and test it there. Drawings n' that PIBEES

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 09:21
To:	graphitone	3 of 33

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Erm 12V - 14.8V 5V - 8.4V That does not look good. A

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 09:38
To:	ALL	4 of 33

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Different PSU, same behaviour. But that wouldn't surprise me if the original PSU has killed something with its high voltages A

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 10:49
To:	ALL	5 of 33

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RAM is still alive, as is the main system hard drive. I wonder if just PSU and motherboard will sort it. A

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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 13:05
To:	ANT_THOMAS	6 of 33

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Have you checked the voltages on the other psu? If they're out as well it could be heavy electricity.


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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 13:13
To:	ANT_THOMAS	7 of 33

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Oh, here's a thought.

Have you tried checking the voltages with the bathroom light off?


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 13:24
To:	koswix	8 of 33

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Other PSU is near enough to 12 and 5. Bathroom light has been off. I'll try with it on. A

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	8 Jan 2017 13:36
To:	ANT_THOMAS	9 of 33

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Always helpful Kos. (fail) “Hillary received more votes for president than any white male in U.S. history. Including Donald Trump.

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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 14:10
To:	ANT_THOMAS	10 of 33

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Did you check the voltage with a load attached? No load on a switched mode PS is going to give squiffy voltages, so may not be the psu that killed it.


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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 14:12
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	11 of 33

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(ant's old (old old) bathroom light used to knock out his Internet when it was switched. We cling on to the past round here, it keeps us from noticing how devoid of exciting newness our lives are)


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 14:26
To:	koswix	12 of 33

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It was plugged into the motherboard and "on" when I tested. So I'd hope that would be enough load. I've found somewhere fairly local that sells the same motherboard, it's difficult to find boards with 6 sata sockets these days. Really don't want to have to buy all 3 parts just to check which is dead :(( A

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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 14:47
To:	ANT_THOMAS	13 of 33

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Guess it's fucked then.


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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 15:00
To:	koswix	14 of 33

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Proper fucked. A

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	8 Jan 2017 16:57
To:	koswix	15 of 33

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Is everything electric fucked, and not just your sockets? “Hillary received more votes for president than any white male in U.S. history. Including Donald Trump.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	8 Jan 2017 18:54
To:	ALL	16 of 33

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This must be dead server day. Mine just went. “Hillary received more votes for president than any white male in U.S. history. Including Donald Trump.

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From:	koswix	8 Jan 2017 22:20
To:	milko	17 of 33

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He's doing that thing where he bashes our sockets, again.


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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	8 Jan 2017 22:56
To:	koswix	18 of 33

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NJ! “Hillary received more votes for president than any white male in U.S. history. Including Donald Trump.

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	8 Jan 2017 23:30
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	19 of 33

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Rubbish. What's happened? A

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	9 Jan 2017 00:42
To:	ANT_THOMAS	20 of 33

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Dead drive. It's been running for weeks (maybe longer) from memory. I'm been able to vnc to it, use the console for ssh and open a file in geany. Anything else it was throwing "file system read only" errors. When I tried to reboot today, bios shows nada for hdd. It's MrsD.'s old refurb HP SFF desktop (with original, 20GB drive) that she had for a few years and I set it up as a server about 4-years ago. “Hillary received more votes for president than any white male in U.S. history. Including Donald Trump.

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