Re: System downtime wednesday for maintainance.

[W B Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     The systems are up again except for pkgbox.dragonflybsd.org.  apcupsd
>     has been integrated and tested.
>
>     There's nothing wrong with pkgbox's disks but the motherboard failed
>     to power up.  In fact, both my Asus A8N SLI-Delux machines (apollo and
>     pkgbox) failed to power up.  The green standby LED works but no fans,
>     no main power, no nothing.  I've determined that it isn't the power supply
>     and it still didn't boot up with all the peripherals and cards removed
>     so it looks like a motherboard problem.
>
>     After some fiddling.. wiggling various things, I managed to get apollo
>     to power up, but pkgbox is dead.  I am going to replace both motherboards
>     so pkgbox will probably be dead for the rest of the week.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Have you noticed any electrolytic capacitors - probably in VR section - with 
slightly bulged tops?  Some of those have taken a *long* time to work thru the 
system and fail - long after the 'big wave' has largely passed from memory.

Or maybe it's a new round of bad electrolyte....

Bill