March 18, 201214 yr I had my new server up and running and was hoping to transfer my disks from my old server to the new server. But, this morning I started my server and all lights went out, No power anymore, just a flash in the PSU-area. PSU burn-out. I dropped another PSU in and luckily the server started, but no boot. USB stick was fried in the process. Luckily I had just upgraded to Unraid Pro with a backup stick 2 weeks ago, so I had another stick ready. I pushed it in, but again NO BOOT! OH NO!, I thought. I have tried both sticks in my laptop and can't access them anymore, they aren't even detected in Windows 7 anymore. So both sticks died + 2 Pro licenses gone. And no Unraid server the rest of the weekend, until I get new sticks. But what about those licenses? Must I buy new licenses? Or can the existing ones on the dead sticks be transferred to new sticks? I dont trust the MB anymore or at least the USB ports. Is there a non-destructive test for the USB-ports? I would have thought there is some protection so that these things can't happen, but I learned a costly lesson today.
March 18, 201214 yr Chances are Tom will re-assign your licenses when you get the new guid. What power supply did you have? Do you have the UPS yet? Odd that it flashed and fried. The only time something like that happened to me was swapping in a non hot swap scsi drive. Fried everything in the machine except the CPU, ram and hard drives.
March 18, 201214 yr Author Hi Weebo, might have been a surge or something, I dont know. It was an older Antec type Neo HE 450. Just wished I had swapped it earlier for the new Seasonic. Everything seems to be working with another PSU, the ARC1200 too, but it seems that some I/O ports took a blow.
March 18, 201214 yr Three letters UPS ! Working on it!!!!! Will any do? Anything is better then nothing, however I would choose an APC since there is software support for automated shutdown.
March 18, 201214 yr I highly doubt a UPS would have helped any. Not saying having one is a bad idea, but just that sometimes failures happen.
March 22, 201214 yr Author I still haven't received an answer from Limetech about transferring the now lost keys of the broken usb sticks to some newly bought sticks. Is there another way of contacting Tom? I tried a direct mail to Limetech and through mailing Tom here on the forum. Can anyone help?
March 22, 201214 yr Three letters UPS ! Working on it!!!!! Will any do? Maybe this will help: CPU: AMD Sempron 140 Motherboard: BIOSTAR A760G M2+ Micro ATX RAM: Kingston 2GB Case: AZZA Helios 910 Drive Cage(s): Icy Dock 5 in 3 Power Supply: Antec SL350 UPS: APC BE550G Back-UPS ES 8 Outlet 550VA 120V Parity Drive: 1tb FALS Data Drives: 1tb FALS Data Drives: 4x 500gb WD Blue The only issue I have is that the syslog states "loss of power" whenever my mono laser printer fires up since that and the UPS share a circuit.
March 22, 201214 yr Three letters UPS ! Working on it!!!!! Will any do? Maybe this will help: CPU: AMD Sempron 140 Motherboard: BIOSTAR A760G M2+ Micro ATX RAM: Kingston 2GB Case: AZZA Helios 910 Drive Cage(s): Icy Dock 5 in 3 Power Supply: Antec SL350 UPS: APC BE550G Back-UPS ES 8 Outlet 550VA 120V Parity Drive: 1tb FALS Data Drives: 1tb FALS Data Drives: 4x 500gb WD Blue The only issue I have is that the syslog states "loss of power" whenever my mono laser printer fires up since that and the UPS share a circuit. I've seen things like this happen before. Interesting that I used to have a laser printer on the same circuit and had issues too. In fact, my circuit breaker used to go off every now and then. Once I got the UPS many issues went away. I rarely if ever pop a circuit breaker now if a light goes out.
March 22, 201214 yr There was never any issues prior to installing the UPS. There are three computers on the same circuit as the printer, in fact. Only after UPS install do I find that the printer is using almost all of the available 15 amps. I think I'll connect the printer to the UPS too. I've been lucky that the breaker has never tripped.
March 22, 201214 yr For me there were issues because two rooms are on the same breaker. Living room and my man cafe/computer/studio. The HP Laser Jet used to trigger allot of grief. I do remember at that time it wasn't recommended to put it on the UPS. I got rid of that printer and went to a nice ink jet. never had any issues after that.
March 22, 201214 yr Please do not put your laser printer on a UPS. They draw way to much current when the fuser warms up, and will blow out the inverter circuit in any home grade UPS. Also, I strongly encourage you to buy a kill-a-watt http://amzn.com/B00009MDBU or something like it, and see what the current draw truly is of the things around your house. You'll be pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised.
March 23, 201214 yr Please do not put your laser printer on a UPS. They draw way to much current when the fuser warms up, and will blow out the inverter circuit in any home grade UPS. Also, I strongly encourage you to buy a kill-a-watt http://amzn.com/B00009MDBU or something like it, and see what the current draw truly is of the things around your house. You'll be pleasantly and unpleasantly surprised. Thanks...
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