Chap in a unit beside where i work *might* be able to help. He does PCB designs from scratch and makes up controller cards for remote gates and doors etc.
call me at work Monday 3482506 (i'll be the one who answers) will ask him if he'd be interested in looking at the PSU at least and how much if anything he'd charge for the service work. if you'd like me to dave. ----- Original Message Follows ----- > Does anyone know of a place in Chch that can test and > potentially fix PSUs? I'd usually just chuck it, but in > this case is's out of a 2U server box, and has pretty > specialised wiring to run 6 removeable hdd bays. > > The server itself is running fine on an old AMD socket 478 > board which was becoming a bit flakey after the best part > of 3 years constant use in a dusty environment. I have > spent about 2 months trying to replace it with a new quad > core replacement, and after spending a month on the first > one, my supplier admitted that the memory didn't really > work with the modo I was using. So I replaced this with an > Intel equivalent, which was a real pain due to the new > intel graphics stuff not really being supported in the > mainstream kernels, and other things. Anyway, the first > board never even passed POST, and the replacement lasted > less than a week. In this situation, my supplier is > blaming my PSU ( which is still working fine as far as I > can see ), and I'm blaming shoddy goods. I really do need > to be sure that they are not wrong before trying to put > another replacement mobo, etc into the server. I can > temporarily lift the bonnet and run a standard sized PSU > in the meantime. > > All I've done is to open the unit up and clean the dust > out of it. Can anyone suggest a local company to service > it??? > > As usual the tenuous link is that this is out of my linux > server (: > > Cheers, > > Steve > -- > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
