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DaveAtFraud
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Last Activity: 02-07-2008, 12:06 AM
Joined: 01-14-2008
Location: Parker, CO USA
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  • DaveAtFraud
    replied to Symptom question
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    Re: Symptom question

    Yeah, they're Mustangs. The picture is from the "Gathering of Mustangs and Legends" at Rickenbacker AFB near Columbus, Ohio last year. The tie in to my by-line is each one of those airplanes represents at least a $1M investment on the part of the owner. Some hobbies are more expensive than others .

    Lots more pictures from GML 2007 on my web site ([url]http://davenjudy.org[/url]) under interests.

    Cheers,
    DaveRe: Symptom question<br /> <br /> ...ng of Mustangs...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Here's a link to [URL=http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=20]my blog[/URL] with a more complete description of my upgrade adventures if anyone is interested.

    Cheers,
    DaveRe: Symptom question

    Here's a link to [URL=http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=20]my blog[/URL] with a more complete description of my upgrade adventures if anyone is interested.

    Cheers,
    Dave    Re: Symptom question

    Here's a link to [URL=http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/?p=20]my blog[/URL] with a more complete description of my
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Thanks. That's what it looked like but I wasn't sure. Way too much of it for it to be electrolite and in places that don't make any sense for electrolite.

    The PSU has a couple of slightly bulged capacitors but none appear to be leaking. It may be my guinea pig for seeing how I do at replacing capacitors on a PCB. It's not like a 400w PSU is worth paying to have repaired.

    Cheers,
    Dave...
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  • DaveAtFraud
    replied to The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage
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    Re: The Hall of Shame - Badcaps Photo Montage

    This is probably the best pic of the capacitors on my motherboard. Note the leaked electrolite on the capacitors near the CPU.



    Cheers,
    Dave
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Looks like my post of a picture of my KG7-RAID was a casualty of the site rebuild. I'll post it again over in the "hall of shame" thread.

    Also, I had a chance to blow the dust out of the PSU and it is questionable. Several of the capacitors are at least slightly bulged. Unfortunately, there is some goo of some sort that got smeared over several parts of the PSU including the capacitors. This looks a little different than what leaked out of the capacitors on the motherboard and it's in several locations besides the capacitors.
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    I'm baaaaack!!!

    Well, that was painful. I tried just moving the drives from my old server to what is now my old desktop. I very carefully noted on each cable which connector it had been attached to and which drives were connected to it but something didn't work. Not sure if the Promise IDE paddle I used to provide more ports has a problem or whether asking several Linux software RAID pairs to move was too much.

    At least the server is back up. I've got e-mail back and the web site plus the blog is up. I still need to get dSPAM working and a couple of other things....
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Not a good idea. She still has her claws and knows how to use them:...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    I'm guessing that a lot of people got burned by bad caps in the supply chain. I seem to remember that CoolerMaster was one of the PSUs that Tom's Hardware liked at one point.


    May have to wait until this weekend unless a crash forces my hand. I've been job hunting for a while and I have a short notice interview tomorrow.
    I should really move the server to the basement. My cat likes to hang out with me when I'm computing. I'd swear she sheds continuously.

    I don't have the foggiest idea how stuff works at the electronics...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Played vulture at the local CompUSA going out of business sale and picked up a CoolerMaster 500w PSU for $60. I figure I'll swap PSUs tonight. Since I'm not exactly an electronics handyman, I figure I'll swap out the MB and then see if I can fix it when breaking it doesn't mean that I'm off the 'net. Same for the old PSU. If I'm successful, I can retire my old "crash and burn" test system: a 733MHz PIII.

    BTW, I'm wondering if the MB lasted as long as it did since the system is always on. I'm thinking the capacitors have had very few...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Not sure if my digital camera is up to capturing the details but I'll see what I can do. I'll wait until the MB is out of the case though to get a picture. I'm thinking the top bulges will be much more apparent with an oblique shot.


    The system is in an Antec case (at least the case hasn't given me any problems) so I have the side panel off as I'm typing. No problem checking to see what the capacitors on the MB look like. Checking the PSU will have to wait until I have a replacement since I'm off the net when the system is down...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    I've got a spare PSU someplace. I'll swap it in and see if things improve.

    Sad thing is that I specifically bought Antec PSUs because they had such a good reputation at that time. I think my spare is fairly generic but low run time (got used by my nephew for a couple of weeks when he needed a spare).

    Thanks,
    Dave...
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  • DaveAtFraud
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    Re: Symptom question

    System is on 24x7x365. It's my own little corner of the internet. Other than a few reboots for software updates or powerdowns to replace hardware it's been running continuously since December 2002.
    I'll probably just replace the MB and PSU since this is also does my web and mail serving. If I need to spend the money, I'll spend it. I just don't want to trash something that's still good because it might be the problem.

    The PSU is an Antec SmartPower 400w (yes, I've seen the Antec thread here). MB is an Abit KG7-RAID.

    Thanks,...
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  • DaveAtFraud
    started a topic Symptom question
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    Symptom question

    I have an Abit KG7-RAID that I have been using for a [URL=http://davenjudy.org/wordpress/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=12]home server[/URL] that may have bad capacitors (they look a little bulged). The symptom I'm seeing is backups sometimes fail. I first saw the problem with amanda reporting:

    /home lev 0 FAILED [compress got signal 11, /bin/tar got signal 13]

    but other partitions completing with no problems. I tried to reproduce the problem by running what I think is the same command amanda uses:

    /bin/tar -X /etc/amanda/exclude-list/exclude.txt...
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