MAY
29
2013
Bad capacitor in a Dell PowerEdge 860
The title says it all, but I'd like to share the whole story if someone else stumbles over a Dell server with a bad capacitor.
This server was brought to work by my boss, it was meant to be put in our rack here and do the work it previously did at the first location.
But he told me that he tested it before he left and then it didn't start. it had been running fine 2 hours earlier and had not been shut down in a long time before that.
So I began looking at the server, when I plugged the power…
This server was brought to work by my boss, it was meant to be put in our rack here and do the work it previously did at the first location.
But he told me that he tested it before he left and then it didn't start. it had been running fine 2 hours earlier and had not been shut down in a long time before that.
So I began looking at the server, when I plugged the power…
