My voicemail PC died a pretty terrible death this morning. I was still
groggy from a late night of hackering and sitting at my computer (my back
is to the voicemail system) and all of a sudden this loud popping begins.
At first a wave of terror washed over me as my not quite totally
functioning brain was trying to determine just what the hell was going on.
At first I didn't want to look but I turned around in time to see some
serious arcing going on inside the exposed PC (the case is off). It went
on for a good 4-5 seconds (start to finish). It was probably the power
supply but I can't tell for sure until I do a post-mortem (right now I'm
getting my voicemail back up). Luckily it didn't take out any hardware.
The hard drive is fine and as far as I can tell so far so are the voice
boards. That was some crazy shit.
The power supply fan went bad on it a while ago (over a year, surely
longer) and I never bothered replacing it because I always use just
whatever hardware I have laying about whenever something goes bad on the
box, and those damn power supply fans go out all the time and it's a pain
to have to replace them. Anyway, I wonder if it was some critical thermal
failure of some sort. The P/S was hot but not abnormally so (abnormal in
this case would be scorching but usual temperature is very hot to the
touch but not burning).
Wacky.
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