I'm Baaack.
Jul. 13th, 2004 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSo, the firewall is up and running, and I'm still not sure what went wrong. I took the old firewall apart, and made sure all the cables were in place. Yup. Then I put the firewall's HD in my main machine and checked it out. It works fine, and I made a quick backup of it, just in case.
Then I put it back in the firewall and tried to boot it. No dice. No clicks, no whirrs, nothing. Then I tried it on the other IDE cable, just in case. Still nothing.
Hokay, I pull an old C-drive off a shelf and try it. It clicks, but doesn't go. I try it on the other cable and it goes. Hmmm.
I put the old drive back on that cable. It works perfectly. Double Hmmm.
I put the whole dang thing back together and it boots first time.
My best guess at the moment is that the power supply was overheating and since the HD is currently the largest draw in the box, it was the first thing to notice.
Anyway, the supply is full of cruft which I should blow out of there with some compressed air. I'm planning a trip to the shop soon to get![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taxlady a replacement video card, and I should try and pick up a can of air while I'm there. Until then, I'm just gonna leave the cover off of the firewall so it can breathe a bit better.
Then I put it back in the firewall and tried to boot it. No dice. No clicks, no whirrs, nothing. Then I tried it on the other IDE cable, just in case. Still nothing.
Hokay, I pull an old C-drive off a shelf and try it. It clicks, but doesn't go. I try it on the other cable and it goes. Hmmm.
I put the old drive back on that cable. It works perfectly. Double Hmmm.
I put the whole dang thing back together and it boots first time.
My best guess at the moment is that the power supply was overheating and since the HD is currently the largest draw in the box, it was the first thing to notice.
Anyway, the supply is full of cruft which I should blow out of there with some compressed air. I'm planning a trip to the shop soon to get
taxlady a replacement video card, and I should try and pick up a can of air while I'm there. Until then, I'm just gonna leave the cover off of the firewall so it can breathe a bit better.
