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It's a new day in a new week in a new month, and I can already tell it's
going to be a long week.
Just arrived for work at 9AM on a monday morning, and the door to the
server room is unlocked, the light is on, all the stuff inside has been
moved around, and there are some assorted circuit boards laying around.
Oh goodie.
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> It's a new day in a new week in a new month, and I can already tell it's
> going to be a long week.
> Just arrived for work at 9AM on a monday morning, and the door to the
> server room is unlocked, the light is on, all the stuff inside has been
> moved around, and there are some assorted circuit boards laying around.
Thanks for informing us.
--
- Warp
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On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:30:37 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Just arrived for work at 9AM on a monday morning, and the door to the
> server room is unlocked, the light is on, all the stuff inside has been
> moved around, and there are some assorted circuit boards laying around.
So what was the deal? Now I'm curious.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> So what was the deal? Now I'm curious.
So am I...
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Do you know what happens if you plug a PC into the mains while it's
configured for 110V rather than 230V?
I do now... ;-)
Mmm, the acrid smell of fried capacitor, with a hint of inductance coil
winding. My favourit smell in the morning.
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Do you know what happens if you plug a PC into the mains while it's
> configured for 110V rather than 230V?
>
> I do now... ;-)
>
> Mmm, the acrid smell of fried capacitor, with a hint of inductance coil
> winding. My favourit smell in the morning.
I did that once. Very embarrassing. I did check the voltage switch, but must
have flicked it by accident while manhandling the case...
To my amazement, PC world let me swap the psu for a fresh one no questions, even
after I sheepishly admitted my error!
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On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:38:43 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Do you know what happens if you plug a PC into the mains while it's
> configured for 110V rather than 230V?
In the US, it works. ;-)
Jim
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Do you know what happens if you plug a PC into the mains while it's
> configured for 110V rather than 230V?
>
> I do now... ;-)
>
> Mmm, the acrid smell of fried capacitor, with a hint of inductance coil
> winding. My favourit smell in the morning.
I actually had something like this as a *literal* wakeup call one morning...
except that I hadn't plugged anything wrong, just my display spontaneously
frying some of its electronics "just for fun", after one of the first overnight
renders I did on my then-brand-new Linux machine...
.... interestingly, it turned out there was nothing wrong with the new computer.
I guess it was probably a freak error in the display, which had gone unnoticed
for almost 2 years only because I had never used the analog input for any
serious duration before.
(Oh well, there *was* something wrong with that brand-new computer, but that was
the hard drive, which failed suddenly and fatally after just a few days...)
And some two or three years ago my other computer gave an *impressively* loud
*BANG!!* when I turned it on - emphasizing the obvious fact that it had no
intention whatsoever to gonna run that day... until then, I wouldn't have
expected such a petty thing as a medium-sized disc capacitor to be capable of
producing *that* much noise...
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Invisible wrote:
> Do you know what happens if you plug a PC into the mains while it's
> configured for 110V rather than 230V?
>
> I do now... ;-)
>
> Mmm, the acrid smell of fried capacitor, with a hint of inductance coil
> winding. My favourit smell in the morning.
Happened all the time while I was stationed in Germany. I was head of
the shop that handled desktop computer hardware maintenance for our
unit. Our buildings had both 110V and 220V power sockets.
After a few instances, I put an end to the practice of calling these in
as warranty failures, and told customers (and the guys who did software
installation) that whoever did this was paying for the new PS.
Regards,
John
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