[KLUG Members] Old server spontaneously reboots

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I suspect that after running continuously for six plus years
> > the power supply is getting flakey and needs to be replaced.
> That seems very likely.  

I concur.

> Or, buy yourself a cheap-ass machine with similar architecture, swap
> the hard drives over, and see if it boots back to the same server
> you know and love.  It just might!  :)

I've done this with surprising success.  Just rip the drive cage out of
the frotz'd server, throw a (or even better, "the") SCSI card in a PC,
and sit them on a desk cabled together.  And up comes the server.