Interesting Happenings with computers
Well, this afternoon was quite interesting. I got off the net (hopped on shortly after work to check my emails), and walked to the study to call Synchro to chase up my Motherboard. As I walked in, I had just found the phone number, when I heard the server fans and HDD spin down, and my music stopped…
On my way home, I had noticed people working on power lines, to hook up a house via underground power. I’m assuming it was them who somehow managed to cut out power to Riverton, and Shelly. (Mem can confirm this at a later date, but according to Western Power, Shelly was out as well). I checked the fuses quickly, once satisfied it wasn’t us, I started the timer to see how long it would be out. I called Western Power, and was told that Riverton and Shelly where out, and the ETA was 5:30pm for them to come back on (this was roughly 2:30pm). So I called Synchro, was informed my board was ready to be collected, then Dad called me, and I told him the power was out, and he said he’d come home and pick me up, and take me to Synchro as he had to drop a pipe off at the Engineer’s down near there.
After a number of ph calls, I went to play some guitar, and had just started playing, when the power came back on. I looked at my timer, and it was roughly 15 minutes from when the power went out. Not bad for Western Power…
It was then I heard a really nice loud pop coming from the study. So I headed towards the study to see if the server maybe had some issue with starting up… As I walked in I heard a second loud pop. And on quick observation, determined the server was fine, as it was humming along merrily, so stuck my head under the desk, and discovered smoke coming out of the back of the power supply for dads computer. I quickly disconnected it, and from the smell, guessed a cap had blown.
I called dad, informed him of the situation, and decided that while we were out, we might as well get a PSU….
To cut the long story short
On that note, is anyone looking for a socket 939, agp board? Asus A8V Deluxe, with or without wireless.
Oh, and the other good news, we are getting adsl!!! Most likely Westnet, although we are waiting for them to announce their phone plans, so we can determine if we want a bundle deal, or split companys for phone and internet.
Tim
(This blog entry was going to be a rant about work, but due to the happenings….)