[tech] Morwong's power supply went BANG! (bang! bang!)

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sat Oct 16 23:42:43 WST 2004


As the subject says, at around 8:15 this evening, morwong's
power supply went bang. This tripped the circuit breaker for
the machineroom circuit, so everything lost power.

Having eventually traced the source of the magic smoke to
Morwong (it went bang a few more times when re-powered), we
replaced the power supply with one of the two lying about
from the Prioris. (The prioris is now acting as a
semi-external scsi enclosure for morwong, but that's a
different story).

So morwong and everything now seems happy. A small amount of
mail was bounced (about 10 minutes worth) while mooneye was up
before morwong had booted, no homedir files should have been
lost.

The cause could possibly be overheating, as someone said the
machineroom was fairly hot yesterday. The aircon didn't seem
particularly cold, so I bumped it up a bit for summer.

Matt


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