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Message In Reply To: eWeek reported [Dell] server
[shut down] when a component overheated...

Posted by: Bob Zumbrunnen
In reply to: Koikaze (who wrote above msg to BobZ)
... problem [to] 1650 servers. This one's a 2650.
... looking at the temperature probes right now
and everything's nice and cool...

Fred,
Bob's reply "everything's nice and cool" is inclusive
of everything monitored by the BIOS
or whetever does the weather reports on the server,
but I'am sure hundreds of other electrical components
are not monitored, like the "have a faulty inductor" mentioned
in the Dell article as the guilty part.
#msg-2210164
Some Dell PowerEdge servers die after smoking...
Defective motherboards... [PowerEdge 1650 servers]
... the problem occurs because certain motherboards
have a faulty inductor--a component designed to regulate
the voltage--that overheats, causing the component
to emit smoke and then shut down....