+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 12, 2022 Author Share Posted April 12, 2022 I had to take Heatwave BBS offline - there is something wrong with the power supply and/or one or more cards. I noticed an 'electrical' smell yesterday and found the system unresponsive. I will not be able to investigate the true issue right away due to other obligations, so I'll post an update when/if I am able to bring it back online. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swim Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: I had to take Heatwave BBS offline - there is something wrong with the power supply and/or one or more cards. I noticed an 'electrical' smell yesterday and found the system unresponsive. I will not be able to investigate the true issue right away due to other obligations, so I'll post an update when/if I am able to bring it back online. The joys of being a SYSOP. I found the Hidden Reef, a BBS that never crashes, unresponsive today due to flaky IDE operation. So now the up/down load section is not available until I get the parts together and install SCSI to run the up/down loads available again. SYSOPs have all the fun. :) 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 17 minutes ago, Swim said: The joys of being a SYSOP. I found the Hidden Reef, a BBS that never crashes, unresponsive today due to flaky IDE operation. So now the up/down load section is not available until I get the parts together and install SCSI to run the up/down loads available again. SYSOPs have all the fun. Yea, I think it has been 4 years since the last major hardware issue on this system. The Geneve has been running 24x7 with the Dc-to-DC converters, I've been quite pleased. I think the recent high temps contributed to the failure as the room was fairly warm due to south-west exposure and our recent... ahem... heat wave. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Hatter Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 16 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: I had to take Heatwave BBS offline - there is something wrong with the power supply and/or one or more cards. I noticed an 'electrical' smell yesterday and found the system unresponsive. I will not be able to investigate the true issue right away due to other obligations, so I'll post an update when/if I am able to bring it back online. Sorry to hear about the hardware problems. Tried to get on yesterday morning and evening, and figured something must be up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, Mad Hatter said: Sorry to hear about the hardware problems. Tried to get on yesterday morning and evening, and figured something must be up. My guess is that one of the ATX power supply's capacitors blew out. It was only by chance that I was upstairs as I had logged into the system within the past 24 hours and it was operating normally. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Hatter Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 4/13/2022 at 8:22 AM, InsaneMultitasker said: My guess is that one of the ATX power supply's capacitors blew out. It was only by chance that I was upstairs as I had logged into the system within the past 24 hours and it was operating normally. Hopefully that's the case, and no cards were damaged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkyPilot Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 Tried some different TI sites today, noticed yours is still offline. I'm sorry to hear about your problems. I tried a place called atari.io as well, it's also down. I found a site called ti99iuc.it, impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) 14 hours ago, SkyPilot said: Tried some different TI sites today, noticed yours is still offline. I'm sorry to hear about your problems. I tried a place called atari.io as well, it's also down. I found a site called ti99iuc.it, impressive. While we wait for Heatwave to come back up I have a TI BBS running on a real TI with a TIPI (see my signature) also on my main BBS I have dialout to hidden reef BBS which is modem only. Edited April 17, 2022 by arcadeshopper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted April 21, 2022 Author Share Posted April 21, 2022 I pulled the cards out of the box. The Geneve seems to be unaffected and booted up in my development PEB. I haven't pulled apart the power supply nor have I checked the SCSI/RS232/Ramdisk. I'll do some more work on the system this weekend and decide how to proceed at that time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 5 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: I pulled the cards out of the box. The Geneve seems to be unaffected and booted up in my development PEB. I haven't pulled apart the power supply nor have I checked the SCSI/RS232/Ramdisk. I'll do some more work on the system this weekend and decide how to proceed at that time. good news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted May 7, 2022 Author Share Posted May 7, 2022 I brought Heatwave back online this afternoon. A few cards and the SCSI drive were affected, fortunately, the Geneve was/is OK. I considered retiring the system due to this outage but would prefer to announce that decision on my own terms. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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