What a way to start a Monday. :-(

[Windogg]

Come in this morning and the server room is sweltering. Not just hot but cook a egg on floor hot. The theromostat goes up to 95F but the needle was pegged as far as it would go. Damn HVAC system shutdown over the weekend. I immediatly started punching out ceiling boards and doing anything I could to get cool air into the room.

By then the damage had been done. One processor to one of the servers died. The thing chugs along fine on just one but stuff like this really sucks. Now I have a nice PII Xeon 400 (2MB cache) sitting on my desk.

I wonder what are the chances of finding a matching pair? Ok well, time to upgrade I guess.

Windogg

 

[iamwiz82]

Windogg, that sucks. We have 2 server rooms at my work, one of them only has an old unix system and a Sun cad server. Well, the air conditioning in that room died one day, and no one knew til the engineers couldnt retrieve their files off of the server. What a pain.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Let us all have a moment of silence for the loss of this fine piece of hardware that gave it's life in the line of duty


*moment*

Okay, now make a keychain out of the core

 

[Czar]

The weekly "I hate monday's" thread from Windogg

To bad, it happened also when I worked for VISA, extremely hot in there, but no damage. We just got all the desk fans we could find and opened the server door and made a line of fans from the closest window to the server room.

 

[Killbat]

Wha.... the multiprocessor system kept running after a CPU fried? I didn't know they could do that, cool!

 

[Napalm381]

<< Wha.... the multiprocessor system kept running after a CPU fried? I didn't know they could do that, cool! >>

On an Abit BP6, probably not. On a fancy server with hot pluggable everything, of course.

 

[Azraele]

ouch

 

[Mooncalf]

<< &quot;Sounds like a case of the Monday's&quot; >>

 

Monday,Monday

The Mama's and the Papa's

 

[Windogg]

The neat thing is that just about everything is hotswapable (even PCI cards). Of course I downed that one before I yanked the CPU. The slot 2 case is one big mofo.

Windogg

 

[Killbat]

NEAT!

Of course it's obvious that a high-end server would have to be capable of that sort of thing, I never really stopped to think how cool that is.

 

[Anybody]

Hot pluggable pci slots make my nipples stand on end.

 

[guyver01]

Hey.. WINDOGG... send me that CPU!! I'll pay ya to ship it

 

[ArkAoss]

yup pretty nice start, you could have started it with a speeding ticket, like my boss did 2 weeks ago, or like today, where he went to court, and lost the case, and hadda pay...

 

[Windogg]

guyver, the CPU is still under warranty so I'm gonna see if they want it back. If not, it's yours.

 

[denali]

That sucks. Why didn't the systems shut down when the reached a temperature thershold? You don't have any environmental sensors in the server room to notify you about something like this? Hope the rest of your week goes better.

 

[Missus]

Sorry about that Windogg!!

Hope your day gets better!!

 

[etech]

We got one of these sensaphone for our server rooms. Just hook it up to a phone line and it will call you when the temp gets too high. Cheap insurance.


I know how you are feeling though, one of my sulfur analyzers pluged up and I'm still working on the sample valve. Not what I had planned for today and I'll probably get home late and my wife called and said the telephone company was out doing something to the wires. I'm waiting for the DSL to be connected.