Don’t you just hate it when something that’s working breaks for no real reason?
I recently bought a new server motherboard, processors, RAM… planning to swap out the parts in an old server. Up until a week or so before the bits arrived the old system was working fine.
Queue swapping out the motherboard etc. with the new ones once they arrive. Hrm, no power. Fiddle around a little and eventually realise the PSU appears to not be working. I fear the worst and wonder if it’s something that i’ve done, but I can’t see any issues with how the new board mounts in the case so i’m certain that there’s no shorting or anything crazy like that.
So it looks to me like the PSU in this old system has just died between now and when it was working perfectly a week ago. New PSU… £145 + VAT. Unless I want the redundant PSU option, which is £160 per PSU, £50 for the PSU ‘connector’ and £20 for a caddy for it to all connect together.
So now, I have no way to work out whether the motherboard actually works, without shelling out at least £145 for a new PSU, which (you never know) could be the actual problem in the first place and have for whatever reason broken my original PSU.
I hate computers sometimes.