Not 2022 from what I recall, but our first and only hp 8500fn1 that we purchased new had the right adf hinge explode while I was trying to diagnose why the adf was constantly jamming. I can't figure out what it was, but something was binding that was causing the adf issue and obviously a lot of stress on the plastics that held the spring tension. The adf problem isn't as bad now, but it's harder to use now with that damaged hinge.
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Not recent, but was pretty spectacular.
I was moving systems from a local server room to a campus data center. There were several rack servers, disk enclosures, and one desktop PC sitting on a shelf. The move was split into several stages, to move the groups of servers configured as clusters together and minimize downtime.
The move was rather uneventful: remove the boxes from the old rack, install in the new one, connect power and network and reconfigure IPs on public interfaces, and move on to the next batch.
The PC was moved as the last machine. When everything was almost ready, I plugged in the power cable into the PDU... only to be greeted with a loud bang, bright flash, and a cloud of smoke shooting out of the power supply.
It turned out that the PDUs in the new rack were connected to 208V power rails, and nobody bothered mentioning it to me. The old rack had the "plain old" 120V, and the desktop PC was one only machine which had a manual switch selecting line voltage.
To my surprise, nobody came to see what was going on. Was it so common there, that they got used to the sound of exploding caps in power supplies?
I was moving systems from a local server room to a campus data center. There were several rack servers, disk enclosures, and one desktop PC sitting on a shelf. The move was split into several stages, to move the groups of servers configured as clusters together and minimize downtime.
The move was rather uneventful: remove the boxes from the old rack, install in the new one, connect power and network and reconfigure IPs on public interfaces, and move on to the next batch.
The PC was moved as the last machine. When everything was almost ready, I plugged in the power cable into the PDU... only to be greeted with a loud bang, bright flash, and a cloud of smoke shooting out of the power supply.
It turned out that the PDUs in the new rack were connected to 208V power rails, and nobody bothered mentioning it to me. The old rack had the "plain old" 120V, and the desktop PC was one only machine which had a manual switch selecting line voltage.
To my surprise, nobody came to see what was going on. Was it so common there, that they got used to the sound of exploding caps in power supplies?
I had this event today.
I was testing my recent R730 purchase. After the CPU stress test, I started searching for SSDs to test the backplane. Suddenly, I heard an explosion. I quickly made my way to the server, but everything was still running(although the server had only one PSU plugged) and there was a smell. I turned the server off and smelled the PSU, and yes, the smell was coming from there.
RIP 1100W PSU. I wonder if I can simply replace this X2 capacitor and continue running
I was testing my recent R730 purchase. After the CPU stress test, I started searching for SSDs to test the backplane. Suddenly, I heard an explosion. I quickly made my way to the server, but everything was still running(although the server had only one PSU plugged) and there was a smell. I turned the server off and smelled the PSU, and yes, the smell was coming from there.
RIP 1100W PSU. I wonder if I can simply replace this X2 capacitor and continue running
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Bit of an odd one today. I've had a couple of Toshiba HK3E2 enterprise SATA SSDs (model THNSNJ200PCSZ) for almost 10 years, they're only 200GB so I retired them to the Mighty Box of Old Hardware probably 6 years ago.
Today I'm putting together a W680 workstation system, and I'm still waiting for the SSDs to arrive, but I wanted to do some idle power testing and tweaking, so I figured I'd install Ubuntu Server on one of the old Toshiba drives to mess around with. The USB installer would boot, and it said it had installed fine, but it would completely refuse to boot off the SSD.
I spent rather too long thinking this was a BIOS setting error (the usual Secure Boot, AHCI, UEFI, etc. stuff that can cause headaches), until I finally looked at dmesg after the install had 'finished' and found that it was full of degradation events and CRC errors on the SATA drive.
No worries, I thought, I've got two of these drives, so I popped the other one in. Exactly the same. So now I spent more time wild goose chasing possible faulty SATA cabling, a bad PSU, etc. etc. I starting to consider RMAing the board when I decided to try it with a completely different SATA SSD, and everything worked flawlessly.
So either both of these drives have gone bad in exactly the same way just sitting on the shelf (and they were definitely both fine when I retired them), or there's some incompatibility between the W680 onboard SATA controller and these drives. At some point I'll try them in another system, but I've torn enough of my hair out for today.
Anyway, I'm really posting this just in case someone else has a similar problem in the future and does a search.
Today I'm putting together a W680 workstation system, and I'm still waiting for the SSDs to arrive, but I wanted to do some idle power testing and tweaking, so I figured I'd install Ubuntu Server on one of the old Toshiba drives to mess around with. The USB installer would boot, and it said it had installed fine, but it would completely refuse to boot off the SSD.
I spent rather too long thinking this was a BIOS setting error (the usual Secure Boot, AHCI, UEFI, etc. stuff that can cause headaches), until I finally looked at dmesg after the install had 'finished' and found that it was full of degradation events and CRC errors on the SATA drive.
No worries, I thought, I've got two of these drives, so I popped the other one in. Exactly the same. So now I spent more time wild goose chasing possible faulty SATA cabling, a bad PSU, etc. etc. I starting to consider RMAing the board when I decided to try it with a completely different SATA SSD, and everything worked flawlessly.
So either both of these drives have gone bad in exactly the same way just sitting on the shelf (and they were definitely both fine when I retired them), or there's some incompatibility between the W680 onboard SATA controller and these drives. At some point I'll try them in another system, but I've torn enough of my hair out for today.
Anyway, I'm really posting this just in case someone else has a similar problem in the future and does a search.
With 2x of them doing the exact same thing, I'd be leaning towards incompatibility. Definitely will be interesting to know for sure. A bios upgrade/downgrade or drive firmware upgrade/downgrade may even fix it.
Yeah, discovered that. I'm going to initiate the process tomorrow. Don't remember when I bought them, so hopefully I'm still within the 10 years.