RBP3 IT Office - Email and technical issues

[Ilios]

Clean sinks, floors, etc in apartment until 2:00am

God I hate cleaning...

[Morgan]

Silly questions, but even as an experienced engineer, i've puzzled over these;

Fuses - or do USA pwr lead not have them? - there will also be a be 120v fuse in the pwr spply internally - maybe best not to open the pwr supply if your not familiar.

The outlet socket in you new place - is there mains? I've puzzled of this then plugged somthing else in and found it dead too.

Best of luck Sunrise, happy to help out if needed.
/tech support!!!

[sunrise089]

Ok guys, after a new power supply and about 3 hours inside the Verizon router's software control panel, I think we're back online. Please let me know any technical issues you run into and thank you so much for your patience with all of this.

[Whosit]

Since I'm playing here, too, I can post twice. :P

No sweat. At least I had one less thing to worry about this weekend. I hope that your computers don't give you any further trouble.

As a technical question, does this experience suggest that the servers should be given a "cool down" every so often? I recall someone theorized that the sudden failure was due to being shut off after 6 months of continual operation, but I am not sure if that was confirmed or not.

[sunrise089]

Since I'm playing here, too, I can post twice. :P

No sweat. At least I had one less thing to worry about this weekend. I hope that your computers don't give you any further trouble.

As a technical question, does this experience suggest that the servers should be given a "cool down" every so often? I recall someone theorized that the sudden failure was due to being shut off after 6 months of continual operation, but I am not sure if that was confirmed or not.

Since we know it was a power supply issue now then I can understand how shutting the PC down finally finished the PSU off. PCs draw the most power right at startup, so the PSU must have been able to survive the continuous load power but not the startup power. The problem with giving the power supply a "break" every now and then is that it will also not mask the failure as long. For all I know I couldn't have done anything to save the power supply, but would have just caused it to die all the sooner.

[Ilios]

Ok guys, after a new power supply and about 3 hours inside the Verizon router's software control panel, I think we're back online. Please let me know any technical issues you run into and thank you so much for your patience with all of this.

Game looks good, Sunrise, thanks for all the work...

[scooter]

Thanks for all the work getting it going again sunrise!

[RefSteel]

Glad to hear your server is up and running again, sunrise - thanks for all the work you put into getting it working quickly!

[darrelljs]

Nothing says thank you like a gift of gold to sunrise's team .

Darrell

[SleepingMoogle]

Thanks a lot for your efforts on getting the server back up and running Sunrise