And then 5 seconds later I yanked the power cord from my server. Waited 10 seconds and put the cord back in. The boot screen came on and I yanked the power cord again. At least now I knew that the motherboard and CPU weren’t dead.

As luck would have it I happened to have a ’spare’ power supply so I put that in the server and booted back up. After the disks had checked them selves the server is now backup and running as before. Interestingly enough this power supply runs cooler than the previous – if the onboard temperature monitor is anything to go by.

Anyone for a dead power supply, thought not.