Oh, here's a thought.

Have you tried checking the voltages with the bathroom light off?

Other PSU is near enough to 12 and 5. Bathroom light has been off. I'll try with it on.

Always helpful Kos. (fail)


 

Did you check the voltage with a load attached? No load on a switched mode PS is going to give squiffy voltages, so may not be the psu that killed it.

(ant's old (old old) bathroom light used to knock out his Internet when it was switched. We cling on to the past round here, it keeps us from noticing how devoid of exciting newness our lives are)

It was plugged into the motherboard and "on" when I tested. So I'd hope that would be enough load.

I've found somewhere fairly local that sells the same motherboard, it's difficult to find boards with 6 sata sockets these days. Really don't want to have to buy all 3 parts just to check which is dead :((

Guess it's fucked then.

Proper fucked.

Is everything electric fucked, and not just your sockets?

This must be dead server day. Mine just went.

He's doing that thing where he bashes our sockets, again.

NJ!

Rubbish. What's happened?

Dead drive. It's been running for weeks (maybe longer) from memory. I'm been able to vnc to it, use the console for ssh and open a file in geany. Anything else it was throwing "file system read only" errors. When I tried to reboot today, bios shows nada for hdd. It's MrsD.'s old refurb HP SFF desktop (with original, 20GB drive) that she had for a few years and I set it up as a server about 4-years ago.

Important stuff backed up?

I learnt my lesson a while back and I'm glad to use CrashPlan

This server had nothing important on it. I've only used it to ssh from plus some light webdev for at least a year.

Another try this morning before I was going to take it all back to the place I bought the parts and it's working again. I certainly don't trust that PSU so I'll be buying a new one.

You bought said parts fairly recently?

April 2015. So not too long ago, but well outside a 12 month window if that's what guarantee I have. The PSU has a 3 year warranty though, but how I go about proving an intermittent fault, I don't know. For around £40 I don't think it's worth the hassle of trying to claim.

Bummer. I started shopping for a replacement drive and noticed I can get a 128G solid state for about the same as a 500G spinner (which capacity might be nice to have, but I sort of don't really need atm).

Tempting...