[pchelpers] We Suffered a Great Loss

I regret to inform the group of a great loss to the Tasana Family.
On February 21st 2007 at 9:37 P.M. CST we lost a beloved member of the
family.
He held up under the toughest trials even though his time here was short.

As he was pulling his weight in the store he spit out his last breath in
a fiery spray of flames. The smell of death quickly filled the air. The
only choice presented to me was to pull the plug which I did.
The without hast David and I preformed emergency sugary.  We removed
both hard drives to preserve the data. Then the power supply hoping that
was the cause of the flames. While David dismantled the Power Supply I
went back to work on the system. I removed the Cables, then both video
cards. David found no foul with the power supply. I grabbed my trusty
LED light and peered into the heart of his soul (the computer not
David's) I then saw what no PC owner wants to see. on either side of a
chip was the mark of death etched in the motherboard. I removed the
processor in hopes it was OK and to avoid any further damage. There
behind the second PCI slot on a small tine square of a chip from either
side emitted black strikes in a V formation. David quickly had a theory.
the second monitor had a power feed back forcing power back down the
data path and took out the motherboard. I Searched the data traces and
confirm this and had no other choice but to rule that David's theory had
indeed become fact. The board was dead.
Thus far the Video Card and the Memory has proven to have survived they
now rest inside the Family computer powering Blender for my son.
As for the computer, well we are currently without a server. the
computer in question was the Compquack that was being used as a server
with over 300GB of storage, the drives were partitioned into 5 drives
and the data was backed up on all the drives, (5 partitions on 2 drives)
as well as an external drive making 6 backups, not counting the backups
on the two Mac's and the one other system thus giving us a total of 8
backups. I now need to put together another server but at the moment we
have no system able to meet that demand, so I am at a loss as to what to
do for the moment.
We will rebuild him, make him better, he will run again, it will not
take $6 million dollars but we will bring him back to us.
Wish us well all my follow ITers. wish us well on this dark day.

Gregory D. Watts


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