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Power… Control!

Rawr. So it looks like the new webserver is having power supply issues. I’ve got six disks in there, and I think the power supply isn’t hacking it. When attempting to sync over data to it, it keeps rebooting.

Time to go purchase something much larger.

I’d think it could maybe be something else, but the machine isn’t dumping core (no vmcore* files found on the box) and this is the first time it’s happened. It’s also nicely reproducable…

Blah.

UPDATE: Also, something seems to have happened when the box crashed, and I have an empty directory that I can’t delete. (It’s part of the set that was being sync’d over.) I need to get the box into single user mode, but I can’t really do that remotely. At least it’s at home…

Well, time to price out power supplies.

UPDATE2: I may have an appropriate power supply at home… So long as it’s not too physically long, and I can fit it inside the case, it’ll definitely power the machine. It’s just meant for a 2U/3U/Whatever case, so I’ll have to build a bracket to hold it. Ah well.

2 Responses

  1. xepherys July 20, 2005

    Power supplies are evil…

    My Sparkle 300W exploded (literally) last week. No pre-emptive whining or anything. Scared the daylights outta me! Luckily the remainder of the computer was unharmed, so my new Antec PS is working quite nicely.

    But yeah, those things are evil…

  2. kevinblanchard July 21, 2005

    Yeah when I built my Wintel box, I had to upgrade my power supply when I purchased a 6800 OC :) Sucker eats a lot of power:)

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