I am awake now because a power supply failed in a Windows server. I should be sleeping now preparing for my weekend, but these things take priority. My wife woke me up when she said there must be something wrong with the computers because several people were calling … Sho’nuff, I see that Mr. Windows 157 isn’t responding to requests … The green power light is glowing, but the fan ain’t blowing … (Johnny Cochran I’m not) … I try to power off from the rear and power it up … Nothing … If the fan were bad, but not the supply, I could have replaced it at a later time … Anyway, slide that puppy out of the rack and spinning screws to put in a replacement power supply … Booted up, and it seemed to me to be slow to get to the BIOS banner, but who knows, I was across the room when it powered on and things work weird through the KVM … So, I will definitely have to cycle it after a boot … Since I am going to have to cycle it, I put on the current available maintenance if any exists … Just so happens there is, so I put this on all other Windows servers … Cycled and all is well …
What really stinks about this? I was sitting here all night running side by side ‘net installs of SuSE 10.1 and Fedora Core 5 … I had all this down time of waiting where if I had known that server wasn’t responding I could have had the supply replaced well before morning prime time … C’est la vie … I am going back to sleep … Long sleepless weekend ahead …