Effin power company

[Steve]

Last night amongst the gales etc, the power company decided it was disco time, on & off with the power.

So this morning computer room smelt of TCP when i booted it up & cordless phone died also

Big thanks to Ady & Mike for the advice new power supply fitted & all is well

New Panasonic dect phone to set up also

 

[Da]

Erm surely that's Mother Nature's fault, not the power company's? :S

 

[Dink]

Erm surely that's Mother Nature's fault, not the power company's? :S

not really as if they used underground cables wind wouldn't affect the supply

 

[Da]

lol, and then we'd all compalin when they dug up the roads!

Or maybe it's Steve's fault for not investing in surge protection? :rasp:

 

[Mike_182]

lol, and then we'd all compalin when they dug up the roads!

Or maybe it's Steve's fault for not investing in surge protection? :rasp:

No comment! I run all mine through a UPS for protection and time to save my documents!

How'd you get a PSU that quick?! Cos I don't think ATX ones work in Dells?

 

[sn00p]

I've seen a UPS take out some servers.

It was back in the novell era, never seen so many worried faces. Turns out when the server ran its backup, it logged in across the network to the machine machine. Unfortunately the login it was using was logged in somewhere else on the network and the backup login failed, and it obviously couldn't backup. Drives had to go off to a recovery company, not sure what the outcome was because I'd left by the time they'd returned.

 

[Steve]

Ok, i now have surge protection as well:rasp:

Effin power company were turning it on/off nearly all morning from 6.00 am, not just a one off

Mike, will get a genuine one asap just needed to get back up quick. As this one is rather loud?

 

[Mike_182]

Unusual. Dells usually go up in a puff of smoke when you plug an ATX one in, as they use a proprietary power connection on 99% of machines. If you're using an ATX one you're a very lucky man...