Bad Luck

Last Wednesday, the fan in the Power Supply Unit of my webserver stopped spinning, and the PSU started giving off lots of heat. Just to be safe, I had to shut it down.

So when Friday came, I took the time to move the harddisks over and designate my Athlon machine as the new webserver. This time with careful planning, I managed to keep a neat arrangement of the IDE and power cables. Just when I plugged in the power cord, there was a pop sound as loud as casually clapping your hands. I noticed bright light from the back of the tower. I suspect the fuse blew up.

It was a golden what-the-fuck moment as I stared for a while. Tried powering it up again and the whole thing’s dead. My router that shared the same multi-socket power outlet froze, the LEDs that blinked remain lighted up. A funny way of telling me he’s shocked too.

So in a short period of 3 days, 2 PSUs died on me. I was so used to working on 2 computers at once that I find it rather uncomfortable using only 1.

Saturday came, I had agreed to meet up with some anime lovers from HardWareZone’s anime forum. Out of 6, 4, including me, turned up. They were all very nice people and there was never a moment of silence. We chat on hardware, games, anime and career. Walked around SimLimSquare after lunch together, followed by a trip down to Anime House at Sunshine Plaza. I’m glad the place has more new shops that hold a lot more anime stuff.

I bought a Pinky Street: Evangelion designer toy for $35, a Narusegawa Naru figure for $9.50, 3 anime OSTs (Sakura Diaries, Mahou Tsukai Tai, Hoshi no Koe) totalling $62, and to put all these stuff in, a printed paper bag featuring a very beautiful Evangelion art for $4.

Back home, I rearranged the harddisks and cdwriter in my Athlon64 machine. So now, I have the noisy harddisk cooler removed, the harddisk cage in the Tsunami casing full with 5 harddisks, cooled by a 120mm fan. The temperature of a harddisk without cooling was 50-52 degrees celcius, with the harddisk cooler, 43-44 degrees, with just the fan blowing, 40 degrees. The 120mm fan gave more airflow then the 2 40mm fans in the lousy harddisk cooler that also came with a huge heatsink.

Sunday was a day of Final Fantasy 11 all the way to 3am~ I was lucky to join a group of people that played their roles well. A WhiteMage would heal us, DarkKnight deals lots of damage, A Summoner/WhiteMage summoned the cute Carbuncle to fight with us and heals us at important times, a RedMage casting spells that affect the enemy, a warrior dealing damage and tanking occassionally. I was a Monk/Warrior who had to pull monsters and tank.

Monday, managed to stay awake most of the time except 10 minutes of nap in the morning and afternoon. After work, it was straight down to SimLim Square for a new PSU at $29. Then spent the rest of the evening fixing and setting things up all the way to 3am again. [X(]