[Cialug] REALLY weird problem

[Todd E Thomas]

I might have a Dell 2900 out in the garage. If you want it for spare parts
I'll just give it to you. My girlfriend wants that stuff gone anyway.

I'm not sure which of us was more excited about virtualization(?).

Let me know.

TT


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:

> There were some 2900  series dell servers that had power supply issues
> that would randomly lock up  and/or reboot on occasion.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:55 PM, Zachary Kotlarek <zach at kotlarek.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:40 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Scott Prader wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is it possible that a power supply was damaged?
> >>>
> >>> Scott
> >>>
> >> Unsure, but not too likely, .. the HW is a Dell 2900 with dual power
> >> supplies.
> >
> >
> > It still might be worth logging the voltage readings for a few hours,
> and/or forcing a failover to the second PS.
> >
> > I had a box once that appeared to work fine for ~15 minutes and then
> would start putting out voltage not quite bad enough to crash outright, or
> to trigger a PS failover, but bad enough to make the clock run at about
> 1.4x normal speed (and probably several other bad things, that was just the
> easiest symptom to spot) which made it die in spectacular ways.
> >
> >         Zach
> >
> >
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