[HECnet] DECSERVER 300 software?

On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:33 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013, Gregg Levine wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Mon, 13 May 2013, Kari Uusim ki wrote: On 7.5.2013 20:12, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-05-07 18:58, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2013, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-05-07 18:48, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2013, Johnny Billquist wrote: On 2013-05-07 18:35, Cory Smelosky wrote: On Tue, 7 May 2013, Sampsa Laine wrote: Anybody have this? My DS200/MC has just bit the dust it seems. Send the DS200 my way. I like fixing those. Every time I've had a problem with any of these, it has been the power supply. Got any hints on what breaks? In the case of mine the fans failed which resulted in rubber around inductors melting and having other components fail due to the heat. Seems like similar has happened to people around the internet. http://osx.dev.gimme-sympathy.org/users/b4/weblog/6b8a6/images/0e170..JPG#3… I actually have ones with no fans... Hopefully not with the original PSU? ;) No, it's original. I have at least three of them (without fans). However, I think the last one gave up last year. I'm now running with with fans... The board seems to be fine without fans...it's just the PSU needs them.. I have a little fan running on my DECserver that has an external PSU now. It runs fine like this. Like I said. All my experience with the DS100/200/300 are that the PSU is the thing that eventually gives up. :-) Johnny Usually the electrolytic capacitors of the PSU deteriorates and will eventually cause the PSU to stop delivering the correct power to the logic board and it will stop working. If you want to fix it, replace the (electrolytic) capacitors and in most cases you'll have a running DECserver good for years to come. I'm still betting on the melted rubber being the cause of the failure in my decserver's PSU. ;) If you don't want to do the replacement yourself, find a TV repair shop in the neighbourhood and ask them to do the replacement. It won't cost huge amounts; maybe 10-20 for the capacitors and an hours work. Kari . -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments Hello! I've seen the effects of blown electrolytic capacitors. It's not pretty. Remember that photo you showed us of a R.PI posing as a system? It was resting on a specie of Dell Optiplex. Most of the family is well behaved, but one member was deliberately built with less then stellar capacitors. Eurgh. I hate those designed-to-fail Dells. They do make great space heaters. ;) They all failed in less then a year. ---- Incidentally Dave this problem isn't your fault. I might want to consider having those Yeti move back...... I don't think Yeti have a particularly usable capacitance ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net/ Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments Hello! The one I was arguing with died of a different ailment. Cascade failure in its memory controller. But an earlier one did die from that particular problem. It was a paired P3 (I think), although it might have been a paired P2, but, not important. The Yeti are doing something else. Its a holding action before the next wave arrives. Cybermen. His cats are paying for it. With his poker winnings. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."