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RBP3 IT Office - Email and technical issues

#691
March 24th, 2010, 19:58
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Well you can't really preserve the same moves since the random seeds will be different.
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#692
March 24th, 2010, 20:29
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Hi all,

All three RBP games will go down for a bit tonight...probably in 2 hours or so. I'm moving my hosting PC from my apartment (lease ends tomorrow) to my house. I think because I use the gotdns service you shouldn't notice anything except downtime while I move the PC.
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#693
March 25th, 2010, 05:02
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Ok, finally got everything unpacked, and yes it is 6:00am (and I have to "wake up" in 30 minutes frown )

Pretty major issue - aside from my Verizon FiOS router being harder to figure out than I anticipated, I apparently have a DOA host PC. It only moved about 30 minutes by car, and wasn't smashed or anything on the way, but until I can figure out what wire got unhooked on the motherboard or what component failed I'm afraid we're kind of stuck here.

Anyways, my apologies. This hosting PC has made about 6 months of hardware uptime, and it sucks that something apparently failed the day I moved it, even if it makes sense.

I'll give you guys an update when I can work on the PC tonight. If I can't find a quick fix I'll look into finding a temporary replacement host.
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#694
March 25th, 2010, 13:25
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Once the move is finished, how much time will be left in the turn? Team Nice Shot still has moves to make, but I will not be around until 10pm PDT. Hopefully that will not mean we need a pause, but if so, it would be greatly appreciated! smile
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#695
March 25th, 2010, 13:29
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Mr. Nice Guy Wrote:Once the move is finished, how much time will be left in the turn? Team Nice Shot still has moves to make, but I will not be around until 10pm PDT. Hopefully that will not mean we need a pause, but if so, it would be greatly appreciated! smile

Mr. Nice,

I believe there is something like 10 hours left on the turn. Regardless, there is 0% chance the game will be up before 10:00pm EST on either my PC or a guest host's because I need to at the minimum move a hard drive to pull the save files off it.
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#696
March 25th, 2010, 17:43
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If the motherboard light is off?

I know I've started to take my computer apart, noticed the light off, and then realized that the only problem was the PSU switch accidentally flipping to off. :-\

Well good luck with the puter problems.
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#697
March 25th, 2010, 18:16
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I'm going to go out on a limb and assume it's more than the switch smile. I talked to sunrise earlier and he's narrowed it down to one of three problems. The third requires purchasing a new power supply so cross your fingers it isn't that.

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#698
March 25th, 2010, 18:53
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The PSU hardware-wise is the easiest part to replace IMO. As long as the main board or CPU isn't fried...
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#699
March 26th, 2010, 19:10
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Ok guys, quick update (and my apologies to Morgan who is able to sub me that I've not even had time to pull a hard drive and get the saves up) - my past three days have been like this:

Day 1 - Work until 5:00pm (thank goodness for one early day), pack boxes, drive to house, and unload until 6:00am. Try to fix PC until 6:30am. "Sleep" until 6:45am when I had to take my wife to the bus stop to head into work.

Day 2 - Drive to work, then class until 9:15pm. Clean sinks, floors, etc in apartment until 2:00am, drive to house, sleep.

Day 3 - Work until now. I had a few minutes this morning to try to manually turn on the computer via connecting the motherboard pins (in case a wire got pulled in my case switch during the move) and to check around for loose wires between my PSU and MB. No dice frown

So anyways, I'm sorry I've not been able to correct this problem yet, but I've been a bit busy wink I'm going to unhook my working PSU from my gaming PC and hook it into the server PC tomorrow morning. If that works I'll drive to a nearby Microcenter and buy a (retail!) new power supply. If it doesn't I'll pull the hard drive and email Morgan the save.

Summary of PC issues in case anyone wants to recommend anything else:

*Server PC normally only had an ethernet cable and a power wire connect.
*PC got unplugged, loaded into truck (on side for safest transport) and unloaded.
*Does not post or boot.
-->Tried multiple power cables
-->Tried multiple wires
-->PSU is turned on
-->PSU is set to 115v
-->Tried manually connecting pins on motherboard to start PC
-->Have semi-verified no internal wires have come loose

So I'm thinking it will turn out to be the PSU...but then again I don't know that a relatively tame ride in a truck is that likely to destroy it either.
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#700
March 26th, 2010, 20:55
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Long uptime can fry things when they get turns off :-\
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