Subj : Good reason not to run a BBS at home...
To   : All
From : nelgin
Date : Tue Sep 24 2024 19:57:45

I replaced my 4x6tb RAID 10 disks with a sinlge 12tb until I had time to get the 2nd disk and install it.

Tonight was the night, shut the server down, added the 2nd disk, booted up fine but I heard some random plinking inside. Obviously something was hitting a fan...there are 6 fans, 3 at the front, one in the rear, the CPU fan and the fan in the PSU.

Quickly shutting down, turned off the power and checked everything. I couldn't find anything so it must have been something under the slider my tower is on hitting the power supply fan.

Pulled in the power, flipped the switch and got a white led flash to show there's power. Hit the power on button...nothing.

Powered off, rechecked all the connectors for fans, switch, checked memory and card slots. Tried again...nada. Looks like I somehow fried my motherboard.

I'll dig my power supply tester out tomorrow. Last thing I want to do is replace the motherboard. I'm at the age now where that sort of thing isn't fun, it's a waste of time chore.

This is not how I wanted to spend my Tuesday night!

Save your BBS uptime, get a VPS!

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