This video is doing way better than if it had booted and showed 64MB Ram and a old 533MHz CPU,, this was the coolest outcome from this old server,, keep filming!! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Reminds me of powering up an old HDD in my workshop, something went wrong and it was smoking vigorously. My wife was yelling 'turn it off, turn if off', I just sat there and let it smoke as I knew it was never going to be recovered. - just a pity I had no camera handy
"Why is there smoke coming out of your server, Seymour?" "Uh- Oh. That isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the steamed capacitors we're having. Mmm, steamed capacitors!"
Its okay, my server is steam powered too. You need to lower the pressure on the aft pressure reservoir, turn the main valve on the primary piston to the open position and the magic smoke should go straight back in
@@MyPlayHouse Hey! That desktop board and processor could have been an HP Brio PC! That's no so bad... :D Just joking, they were terrible, even for a desktop PC :D Those celeron processors were garbage. Did that server run linux, or something like that? Even windows 98 worked quite horrible on that hardware.
Man, I had the same thing happen to me when I powered on my 35 year old IBM XT to show the guy I was about to sell it to that it was working fine. That smell of popped Rifa capacitors hangs around for weeks.
I am guessing that what blew up was a filter cap. That is an easy fix. In fact, if it is just a RIFA cap, you could probably remove it and it would still work as it is probably just meant to filter power going back into the wall.
The problem is with the capacitors inside the power supply, they were burnt, so they created so much smoke. I also had a similar problem with 2-3 psu many years ago.
I understand that feeling of wanting to fix up old stuff, even if it really is a waste of time and effort. I do it too often myself. But, you got yourself a little excitement at your playhouse!
IBM sells Magic blue smoke refill :-) upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg
Magic smoke attack! This is what you get for not checking the PSU caps first and Not testing outside. The scent of magic smoke will be with you for awhile now! Should examine and test the results. See what survived just for fun (can certainly reuse the case heatsink at least)
@14:00 because these cpu need saving,i sometimes wonder if there needs to be a charities setup to re-home all these old cpus,find them good new owners,someone got to care for them!
That is a Coyote Point Systems' Equalizer rack-mounted load-balancer, and firewall. I assume that it was based on PC-hardware, and ran some sort of custom OS. That is probably why they had the second network card.
From the look of the smoke, I think you had two different types of parts fail. The massive jet was from a big electrolytic capacitor, definitely. Characteristic delay followed by venting. My guess is they used Taiwanese ones from the capacitor plague era. It's hard to tell what other damage might have been done inside the supply, but it's possible that a recap would fix it - not that that's economical for a commodity ATX supply like that. The LED on the motherboard makes me think that this is probably the case. ATX switch-mode power supplies from that era directly generated each individual power rail (12V, 5V, 3.3V, etc.) from a separate secondary winding tap on the transformer, so if the cap on the 12V rail failed open it would continue to produce the other rails (albeit often with poor voltage regulation) despite the 12V rail being gone. A fail short usually trips the power supply's internal overcurrent detection (you may have heard a "tick, tick, tick" sound if you've ever tripped this) and all output rails go down in that case. That said, many ATX supplies generate the +5VSB (standby) rail completely separately from the main switching supply circuitry, so the LED could just be running off of that and the whole supply could still be FUBAR. Based on the initial smaller pop, I think you also had a paper type Y-class filter cap go too. The X-class and Y-class mains filter caps are notorious for dying in a puff of acrid smoke, since they're glass encapsulated and tend to crack and let in air in storage due to heat cycling and mechanical shocks. From that era I'd guess it's probably one that RIFA (now Kemet) made. Luckily those Y-class ones fail open and aren't actually necessary parts for operation - they're included for EMI compliance reasons. I had one go in my very old Fluke-Phillips PM3070 CRT oscilloscope, which I got from my dad (he's an electronics engineer that designs power control circuitry for diesel-electric trains) after he upgraded and it languished in the garage for many years. Stunk the room out for weeks. The oscilloscope still worked afterwards, though, and it was an easy replacement. Luckily it pre-dates the capacitor plague. As a fun side story here, as a kid I had a desktop ATX power supply go bang in quite a spectacular way. The main output capacitor in it exploded with such force that it sprayed its molten innards through the fan vent and all over my wallpaper. When my dad removed the power supply it was no longer a box shape - it was almost spherical. He said he'd never seen a capacitor, or any other component for that matter, explode with such force. And that's coming from someone who works with 30 megawatt motors for a living. The PC case was so badly bent at the back that it ended up being unsalvageable, even after an hour's work with pliers and a hammer to try to bend it back into shape. Luckily all the other PC parts were fine, save for a tiny crack in the corner of the motherboard that luckily didn't break anything. I had a big discoloured mark on my wallpaper for years after that incident.
Also, was the fan on the side of the case smoking? I thought I saw smoke coming from there toward the end of the shot. If the fan was old and shorted out it could explain this failure - plague caps in these supplies are easily set off by shorts because it causes the voltage on the secondary side of the SMPS transformer to go much higher than normal, and over-voltage is the primary cause of capacitor failure.
I believe there were cpus you could overclock by removing and bridging a combination of pins. I was pondering if that could be the reason they were bent and there was goop between two pins (like conductive ink).
I doubt that's the case here. While the Mendocino Celerons can be overclocked by blocking a pin, that only gives you an exact 50% overclock (66->100 MHz bus) because the multiplier is locked. IIRC 600MHz is about the absolute fastest these chips can go. This 533MHz is already the top speed chip of this type. Overclocking would take it to 800MHz, where it surely wouldn't boot. Side story, I tried overclocking my Pentium 4 by bending a pin out of the way. First I bent the wrong pin, then it broke off. Bye-bye CPU.
Excellent video, unfortunate event. I hope you keep a fire extinguisher, just in case. As you said, i would gut this server out, and use the case for a custom build.
from wikipedia: Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet
@@MyPlayHouse It's still an experience that could be valuable in the future eh. Fixing things is good, less in landfill and besides, most of the time it still works!
Yep When Them big PSU Caps Go They Usually Go Out With a bang Followed by what looks like smoke but really its just steam ..& It Looks Really Cool On Cam ! I have changed more cams at my old shop than i can probably count !
@@MyPlayHouse some of the big 450v caps can have quit a bit but it also looked like that was more than one going snap, pow & or snap crackle & pop..lol..still fun to watch..ha ha
Hi arno robin werkman I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there. docs.google.com/document/d/10tNReA70PsMT4dnyyg6-DdCyFEVcAI9WMizq1SNBibY/edit?usp=sharing Thank you for watching! :-)
Knowing that was a ancient power supply. i bet the red switch wasn't set for the correct voltage for your outlets. I think it was 115 vs 230 if i remember right.
Seems this server knew how to go out with not just a bang it seems. I really weren't expecting much more after that first pop. That it also decided to turn into a fog machine were impressive, let alone doing it twice....
Seems to be either wrong voltage input switch (240 instead of 120V) or just the age that has let the input filtering capacitors to fail. You might send the power supply to bigclive, he will make an autopsy of it im sure... :)
What a fantastic psu breakdown :-D, i've never seen a switchmode go in such a dramatic way. Switched off for too long, gotta be the mains capacitors given up the ghost :-D
Oh... u dropped the CPU on 12:53 I think u have to rename ur channel now to Mortens Tech Tips ;) And I must admit that I laughed because "I like to fix things.... and if it blows up...." *boom* :D But yes, those old PSUs can't hold their magic smoke very well! Happend to me twice, too.
this video reminded me of my FIRST attempted iteration of what was to become my freenas storage server... ahh good times, remembering when I accidentally turned the power supply into an arc welder xD
Wow I have never seen a power supply blow up that before. I have a pentium 3 at 533mhz. I love old server and I am thinking of buying one to build a nas in one. What would you recommend for a beginner? Great video cannot wait for the next one
Hey Morton, this Socket 370 cpus can be modified by pin mods. This old whitney board supports 100mhz fsb and the 66mhz fsb celeron was often overclocled to 100mhz front side bus. Sometimes you had to do the pinmod to increase the vcore of rhe cpu to run stable at 100mhz fsb. I spent many nights pushing those stuff to new highscores 😬
did you try IBM Magic blue smoke refill :-) upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg
I'm reminded of a day at work about 25 years ago, when the PC of one of my coworkers suddenly started emitting smoke and a small visible flame, after being on for a few hours. Not quite as dramatic as this load of magic smoke, however :-)
@@MyPlayHouse The halon was ready to fire in the machine room in the underground bunker, 2½ stairs down.... No regular office grade PC stuff down there.
I'm betting since there were multiple bent pins on the cpu, the psu switch on the back was selected to the wrong voltage. The motherboard indicated power so that's a good sign the power supply would have worked otherwise. The board might actually be fine since it wasn't powered on yet.
X capacitor or just really crap one ? Everything in there is a bit shit. Have quite a few Xs go at the museum at would it be weird if I said I’m just a tiny bit addicted to that smell ?
Great video Morten. What not to do when powering up a PC when it hasn't seen electricity for years. Or as other people mentioned, incorrect voltage selected. Which I would imagine is not the case? As someone local gave it to you. Thanks for a good laugh. A Ball Bearing Fan. 😂
If you see some of my first videos, you can hear that I was not great at english 1000 videos ago,,, and all comment I replayed to,, I had to google. :-)
Old PSU, old caps, new smoke :) - still, the chassis isn't bad and with 2U there are many options for a DYI server. That must have taken some time to take the smoke out of the house :D
Looks like a Mendocino core Celeron and the i810 chipset. My first PC in a nutshell. And let me tell you - the pyrotechnic effects probably have more entertainment value than the rest of that thing.
Actually the Celleron was a cache stripped version of the flagship pentiums of the day, however I do recall a hack of the day where you disabled some pins to enable some of the pentium features, like the ability to put dual cellerons in a dual socket board with a bodge cable run between the two CPU sub modules (those where the cartridge cpus with the cache on the cart.) I just looked online and could find no mention of it however. MAYBE those pins where bent for a reason and the one in the middle couldn't be bent due to space so they insulated it with something and when you 'fixed' it you didn't? Just a thought.
I never liked socket 370 cooler mount. It was annyoing to install/remove. Remember friend who killed his motherboard while was installing p!!! tualatin. He applied too much force to mount clamp with flathead screwdriver and well it went trough motherboard.
if that was only the power supply that could possibly be changed with a standard pc psu as the one in it looks like a standard one but this one likely would not be worth it with its current hardware
Normal people: “ITS SMOKING!!! KILL THE POWER!”
Morton: “ooooooooo power supply go sizzle”
This video is doing way better than if it had booted and showed 64MB Ram and a old 533MHz CPU,, this was the coolest outcome from this old server,, keep filming!! :-)
Lmao
@Lem Rezar I now have a good example of an exploding power supply for educational purposes
@@MyPlayHouse so I assume you're now going to purposely blow shit up then? Haha
@@MyPlayHouse Reminds me of powering up an old HDD in my workshop, something went wrong and it was smoking vigorously. My wife was yelling 'turn it off, turn if off', I just sat there and let it smoke as I knew it was never going to be recovered. - just a pity I had no camera handy
"Why is there smoke coming out of your server, Seymour?"
"Uh- Oh. That isn't smoke. It's steam. Steam from the steamed capacitors we're having. Mmm, steamed capacitors!"
Yarh do not install Steam on a rack server :-)
"I'm from AMD and have never heard the term 'steamed capacitors' before"
@@tombarber8929 'Aurora borealis..at this time of year at this time of day in this part of the country localized entirely within your server?'
@@Nlogax Yes.
@@MyPlayHouse why not, just install a graphics card 😂
Nothing like the smell of burnt caps in the morning.
Took a day to get rid of that "lovely" smell,, But made a good show! :-)
@Scott Downey feel the ☕ 😂Hahahaaaa
Apprentice initiation, 1 farad cap under a metal fire bucket and 240v but you wouldn't get away with these days with all the health and safety
Mmm toxins
"The dr. said that i was low on electrolites. Not anymore" :P
“At least 95% of viewers on my channel are men, so we could say that my fans are ‘ball bearing’ as well...” Made me laugh, gold! :)
And with a Raid 1 redundant solution!
Disco server, it even has its own in built fog machine ;)
The deceased WEB master, had Booby trapped it,, :-)
Its okay, my server is steam powered too. You need to lower the pressure on the aft pressure reservoir, turn the main valve on the primary piston to the open position and the magic smoke should go straight back in
uhh there was a good joke,, Do not install Steam on a rack server !! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Lol
@@MyPlayHouse lmao
A server blows up......
everybody: sad server
morten: holy fk, this is good video
Come on a 533MHz,, this was the best way to go out!! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse poor server tho
And that is why you bench test every server before putting it into your rack of expensive servers.
That is why you buy enterprise equipment.
@@MyPlayHouse Hey! That desktop board and processor could have been an HP Brio PC! That's no so bad... :D Just joking, they were terrible, even for a desktop PC :D Those celeron processors were garbage. Did that server run linux, or something like that? Even windows 98 worked quite horrible on that hardware.
Man, I had the same thing happen to me when I powered on my 35 year old IBM XT to show the guy I was about to sell it to that it was working fine. That smell of popped Rifa capacitors hangs around for weeks.
I got the smell out in a few hours,, I was Lucky!
scotty B
, if you hadn't tryed to sell it, it would not of failed lol.
That's " Sods law." in action :-D
Were you able to fix/salvage the XT?
I am guessing that what blew up was a filter cap. That is an easy fix. In fact, if it is just a RIFA cap, you could probably remove it and it would still work as it is probably just meant to filter power going back into the wall.
I love the sound of popping capacitors in the morning!
First morning sun, and the mist from all the popping capacitors,, it's a bright new day :-)
TH-cam is messing up, and climes that I have not replied to this,, sorry for the "disturbance in the force" :-/
something tells me the power supply was set up for 120 volts and you plugged in 240 and popped all the input caps.
I will have to check,, only came to think about this, when I was editing the video.
@@MyPlayHouse I bet money on that. I'm sure that's what caused the failure.
Always good to see an old server go out with a bang followed by a blaze of glory.
Best end show, I have seen for a long time.
The problem is with the capacitors inside the power supply, they were burnt, so they created so much smoke.
I also had a similar problem with 2-3 psu many years ago.
Hi hamdzuii
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I could hear the caps boiling. NOW THAT'S CONTENT! LOL glad you were safe from that.
I am fine thank You,,, this Server put up a great end show! :-)
Pretty sure in the power supply blew up can you replace I and try to switch on the motherboard
I would expect that as well :-)
I understand that feeling of wanting to fix up old stuff, even if it really is a waste of time and effort. I do it too often myself. But, you got yourself a little excitement at your playhouse!
Yes This Server put up a good show!
17:12
Once the magic smoke goes, there is no repairing that LOL.
Seeing that the board still has the power LED glowing leaves me with feeling it might be fine. The PSU however is gone forever.
IBM sells Magic blue smoke refill :-)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg/1280px-Magic_smoke_refill_%285990429717%29_%282%29.jpg
@@MyPlayHouse lmao
I really should get some of that lol
Ohh You had seen it :-)
@@MyPlayHouse yep
Lmao
I let a friend of mine know about your website btw as those hard drive prices are pretty cheap lol
"I assure you that it doesn't smell very good!!" LMAO .. Great video Morten. Have a great weekend.
Thank you very much,
Not one not two but three capacitor EOL :-D never seen this before !!
Well you blow stuff up, all the time 🤔
id like to see some more old server fixes.....seeing old things is very interesting to me
Okay,, noted!
Magic smoke attack! This is what you get for not checking the PSU caps first and Not testing outside. The scent of magic smoke will be with you for awhile now! Should examine and test the results. See what survived just for fun (can certainly reuse the case heatsink at least)
I am just happe I was not in a Data Center, with a fire system... that would have been bad.
220v in 120v power supply ? let's see that :D
That Might look as cool..
@thestuff - Oops 😂 that's why it blow up.
I do not know,, I only came to think about that option as I was editing the video.
I've done that, and all I got was a sad little pop.
@@dancoster7332 I have never seen a PSU fail like that, either. But on the other hand, those caps were really old, and unused from who knows how long.
@14:00 because these cpu need saving,i sometimes wonder if there needs to be a charities setup to re-home all these old cpus,find them good new owners,someone got to care for them!
Who would want anything this old!
@@MyPlayHouse ME!
@@MyPlayHouse Clint Basinger might.
I think you mean DIY (Do it yourself), DUI (driving under the influence) is the charge you get if you drive drunk, Morten :)
Yarh,, I did,, but it seem like I made my mistake funny.. good :-)
Well the server did look like a car right after you DUI into a tree and break the radiator.
DIY= Do it yourself
DUI=Driving under [the] influence ( 3:55 )
This is most definitely a "DUI" server! Hahaha!
I did a joke,, by mistake :-) Damn..
excellent magic smoke release
Directors cut!
this video is going to blow up with lots of views, new subscriber . great vid btw morten
Well it has done okay,, 20K views in a few days, is not bad :-)
That is a Coyote Point Systems' Equalizer rack-mounted load-balancer, and firewall. I assume that it was based on PC-hardware, and ran some sort of custom OS. That is probably why they had the second network card.
Okay yarh,, We never got that fare :-/ I did not think it would be a good idea to actually turn it on, after all that smoke.
@@MyPlayHouse The OS image on the drive may be interesting to look at?
@@humboldtdrygoods1087 the OS is a custom OS based on FreeBSD
From the look of the smoke, I think you had two different types of parts fail. The massive jet was from a big electrolytic capacitor, definitely. Characteristic delay followed by venting. My guess is they used Taiwanese ones from the capacitor plague era. It's hard to tell what other damage might have been done inside the supply, but it's possible that a recap would fix it - not that that's economical for a commodity ATX supply like that. The LED on the motherboard makes me think that this is probably the case. ATX switch-mode power supplies from that era directly generated each individual power rail (12V, 5V, 3.3V, etc.) from a separate secondary winding tap on the transformer, so if the cap on the 12V rail failed open it would continue to produce the other rails (albeit often with poor voltage regulation) despite the 12V rail being gone. A fail short usually trips the power supply's internal overcurrent detection (you may have heard a "tick, tick, tick" sound if you've ever tripped this) and all output rails go down in that case. That said, many ATX supplies generate the +5VSB (standby) rail completely separately from the main switching supply circuitry, so the LED could just be running off of that and the whole supply could still be FUBAR.
Based on the initial smaller pop, I think you also had a paper type Y-class filter cap go too. The X-class and Y-class mains filter caps are notorious for dying in a puff of acrid smoke, since they're glass encapsulated and tend to crack and let in air in storage due to heat cycling and mechanical shocks. From that era I'd guess it's probably one that RIFA (now Kemet) made. Luckily those Y-class ones fail open and aren't actually necessary parts for operation - they're included for EMI compliance reasons. I had one go in my very old Fluke-Phillips PM3070 CRT oscilloscope, which I got from my dad (he's an electronics engineer that designs power control circuitry for diesel-electric trains) after he upgraded and it languished in the garage for many years. Stunk the room out for weeks. The oscilloscope still worked afterwards, though, and it was an easy replacement. Luckily it pre-dates the capacitor plague.
As a fun side story here, as a kid I had a desktop ATX power supply go bang in quite a spectacular way. The main output capacitor in it exploded with such force that it sprayed its molten innards through the fan vent and all over my wallpaper. When my dad removed the power supply it was no longer a box shape - it was almost spherical. He said he'd never seen a capacitor, or any other component for that matter, explode with such force. And that's coming from someone who works with 30 megawatt motors for a living. The PC case was so badly bent at the back that it ended up being unsalvageable, even after an hour's work with pliers and a hammer to try to bend it back into shape. Luckily all the other PC parts were fine, save for a tiny crack in the corner of the motherboard that luckily didn't break anything. I had a big discoloured mark on my wallpaper for years after that incident.
Also, was the fan on the side of the case smoking? I thought I saw smoke coming from there toward the end of the shot. If the fan was old and shorted out it could explain this failure - plague caps in these supplies are easily set off by shorts because it causes the voltage on the secondary side of the SMPS transformer to go much higher than normal, and over-voltage is the primary cause of capacitor failure.
I have never seen anything give out this much smoke 💨!
My Optiplex 755 recently did the same thing. A set of new capacitors from CPC and she lives again.
Hi Bob Beattie
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
I believe there were cpus you could overclock by removing and bridging a combination of pins. I was pondering if that could be the reason they were bent and there was goop between two pins (like conductive ink).
Maybe,, but it did not look like something done on purpose.
I doubt that's the case here. While the Mendocino Celerons can be overclocked by blocking a pin, that only gives you an exact 50% overclock (66->100 MHz bus) because the multiplier is locked. IIRC 600MHz is about the absolute fastest these chips can go. This 533MHz is already the top speed chip of this type. Overclocking would take it to 800MHz, where it surely wouldn't boot.
Side story, I tried overclocking my Pentium 4 by bending a pin out of the way. First I bent the wrong pin, then it broke off. Bye-bye CPU.
Those U-series drives are slow but very reliable. They were designed for OEM use.
Okay,, thank you very much!
Excellent video, unfortunate event. I hope you keep a fire extinguisher, just in case. As you said, i would gut this server out, and use the case for a custom build.
I do have one, I was not expecting anything like this!
"my fans are ball bearing as well" ... good god, that got a good chuckle out of me.. haha.
95% of my audience has a redundant solution, in that regard 🤗
from wikipedia:
Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet
OK thank you very much!
Your reaction was classic! 🤣 Why not try to fix something that doesn't matter, prepares you even more for when it does 👍
I like fixing stuff,,, but I do feel kind of stupid sometimes when I fix something,, and get rid of it.
@@MyPlayHouse It's still an experience that could be valuable in the future eh. Fixing things is good, less in landfill and besides, most of the time it still works!
"My fans are ball bearing as well" lol
I thought that was going to be the high point of this video,, I was wrong :-)
@@MyPlayHouse I thought it was a good second. You just can't beat magic smoke.😁
@@MyPlayHouse it is I laughed a lot xD
Holly shit how the hell did you manage to pull that off
Well I must admit,, I did not do much,, it took over the show, all by itself.
I love how the board still had a bit of power haha.
That might still work
Yep When Them big PSU Caps Go They Usually Go Out With a bang Followed by what looks like smoke but really its just steam ..& It Looks Really Cool On Cam ! I have changed more cams at my old shop than i can probably count !
I have never seen ant with this much smoke in them :-/
@@MyPlayHouse some of the big 450v caps can have quit a bit but it also looked like that was more than one going snap, pow & or snap crackle & pop..lol..still fun to watch..ha ha
Great start to the weekend!
Thank you very much! Yes this was fun 🤗
Would really appreciate an autopsy of the PSU.
It is weird that it let go that fast, was the power-selector set for 120v?
We might have to have a look at it,, and see if it is set to 120V,, I did not check.
@@MyPlayHouse When you're done send it to Clive. It can be a sequel to the magnet-destroyed fan.
wonder how much electricity all those servers running consume.
im planning to get my hands on a few used ARM servers.
Hi arno robin werkman
I do get this question from time to time, so I have added it to my F.A.Q. that you can check out under the "about" tab here on my channel. I give a longer answer there.
docs.google.com/document/d/10tNReA70PsMT4dnyyg6-DdCyFEVcAI9WMizq1SNBibY/edit?usp=sharing
Thank you for watching! :-)
@@MyPlayHouse thank you for your reply, going to take a look now.
One of the funniest techno video on the market. Capacitors have the power and hate Morton!
I have never seen that much smoke out of a piece of elektronic...
Knowing that was a ancient power supply. i bet the red switch wasn't set for the correct voltage for your outlets. I think it was 115 vs 230 if i remember right.
I did not check,, only came to think of that doing editing this Video.
Seems this server knew how to go out with not just a bang it seems.
I really weren't expecting much more after that first pop. That it also decided to turn into a fog machine were impressive, let alone doing it twice....
Never knew it had it in it..
@@MyPlayHouse I think we have found the new way to celebrate new year's.
Seems to be either wrong voltage input switch (240 instead of 120V)
or just the age that has let the input filtering capacitors to fail.
You might send the power supply to bigclive, he will make an autopsy of it im sure... :)
I think the capacitors was gone,, dry or whatever :-/
you are going to have a hard time putting the smoke back in side the power supply.... lol....... good video....
Yes,, not a fun job :-)
"Former operator of the server... clearly it was a web server." Was a really underrated joke.
Thank You,, I did find it funny myself :-)
It was old enough for the bad China Cap days. I did sound and look like capacitors going off.
I agree,, I lost a few cap's here,, and some of the smoky ones :-)
The smoke like this i have last seen from a power supply with incorrectly switched input voltage.
That might be it.
I'm really surprised this didn't trip a circuit breaker!
Yarh,, and there seamed to be power on the system board,, I did not try to turn it on. That might have tripped the circuit breaker.
What a fantastic psu breakdown :-D, i've never seen a switchmode go in such a dramatic way.
Switched off for too long, gotta be the mains capacitors given up the ghost :-D
It had, had time to gather smoke for a while,, and I got it all full blast! :-)
The former "operator" of the server was clearly into web development :D
He booby trap, the server before he went Virtual.
Lol
Oh... u dropped the CPU on 12:53 I think u have to rename ur channel now to Mortens Tech Tips ;) And I must admit that I laughed because "I like to fix things.... and if it blows up...." *boom* :D But yes, those old PSUs can't hold their magic smoke very well! Happend to me twice, too.
This was great,, this old server put up a smokey good end show :-)
Company: Nooo My Data!!
Morten: Oooo Good Video!
:-) If this had been in a Data Center,, I would have hurried to get the F* out,, before the fire suppression system,, saw the smoke :-/
this video reminded me of my FIRST attempted iteration of what was to become my freenas storage server... ahh good times, remembering when I accidentally turned the power supply into an arc welder xD
That does indeed Not sound like good times!
12:15 I use metal opening tool for notebook disasemble or some kind blade cutter :) hard to explain but I think you get it :)
Hi Tinas Askus
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
That was a lot of magic Smoke!
It is the most smoke I have ever seen comming out of a PSU.
Wow I have never seen a power supply blow up that before. I have a pentium 3 at 533mhz. I love old server and I am thinking of buying one to build a nas in one. What would you recommend for a beginner? Great video cannot wait for the next one
It is the most smoke I have ever seen comming out of a PSU.
Hey Morton, this Socket 370 cpus can be modified by pin mods. This old whitney board supports 100mhz fsb and the 66mhz fsb celeron was often overclocled to 100mhz front side bus. Sometimes you had to do the pinmod to increase the vcore of rhe cpu to run stable at 100mhz fsb. I spent many nights pushing those stuff to new highscores 😬
Okay, but it did not look like something done on purpose.
this video is much better then another pfsense video
It was smoky :-)
Been 35 years since that happened to me... I couldn't get the magic smoke back in...
did you try IBM Magic blue smoke refill :-)
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Did you use the power supply 'turbo' switch? as in the 120/240 selector?
I did not check!
Explosive video. Maybe an autopsy on the power supply?
It put up a great show..
I'm reminded of a day at work about 25 years ago, when the PC of one of my coworkers suddenly started emitting smoke and a small visible flame, after being on for a few hours. Not quite as dramatic as this load of magic smoke, however :-)
This would have been a disaster if it had been in a data center with fire suppression.. :-(
@@MyPlayHouse The halon was ready to fire in the machine room in the underground bunker, 2½ stairs down.... No regular office grade PC stuff down there.
This it a good reason to say NO when they come with there cheap creap that they want in the Data Center.
Was the little red button set to 120 and not 240?
We might have to check that.
believe or not, last week, i was testing an old old HP DL380 G4 and the PSU or PSUs blew up just like that.
Uhh I was so happy that this did not happen in a Data Center!
I love you and your channel. I am always happy when you post a video. I hope you keep the case. I think it looks nice.
I kept it,, now it is smoking famous :-) And Thank You!!
The magic smoke well and truly escaped this one 🤣🤣🤣
That was a surprisingly large amount of Blue Magic smoke 💨 in that server.
I'm betting since there were multiple bent pins on the cpu, the psu switch on the back was selected to the wrong voltage. The motherboard indicated power so that's a good sign the power supply would have worked otherwise. The board might actually be fine since it wasn't powered on yet.
Yes it might be fine,, still old junk, but fine old junk 🤗
Voltage selector switch on PSU set to 115 V ?
Maybe,, but got this server locally, and we use 230v
Best Reaction to something blowing up. Holy F**k this is good video.
:-) I was hoping for a bios splash screen,, this was way more exciting,, did not smell great. :-)
@@MyPlayHouse You got a smoke screen instead :-). Definitely far more exciting.
X capacitor or just really crap one ? Everything in there is a bit shit. Have quite a few Xs go at the museum at would it be weird if I said I’m just a tiny bit addicted to that smell ?
I have never seen anything go out this wild!
A mechanical pencil (minus the lead) works great for straightening those old pins!
Thank you very much
Love the sped up bits ( accelerated sound as well) not at the smoke yet :) (ok right after that it let the magic smoke)
Hi lee x
Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-)
Thank you for watching! :-)
Use a bit of new thermal paste to clean off the old and hardened one. Works really well ;-)
Thank you very much!
At least that’s one way of getting rid of it
I just put it back on the shelf.
Great video Morten. What not to do when powering up a PC when it hasn't seen electricity for years. Or as other people mentioned, incorrect voltage selected. Which I would imagine is not the case? As someone local gave it to you.
Thanks for a good laugh.
A Ball Bearing Fan. 😂
Yes I believe this server, is from around here!
95% of my fans are ball bearing, and has a redundant solution,, raid 1
You should open up that PSU and make a video showing what the inside looks like.
We might just do that,, thank you
🖐 I admire you very much, it is a pity that I do not speak English, but sometimes I translate into Polish in Google, I have the same passion as you.
If you see some of my first videos, you can hear that I was not great at english 1000 videos ago,,, and all comment I replayed to,, I had to google. :-)
🖐@@MyPlayHouse
Hmmm No smokedetector? or just didn't go off on video?
not close enough,,
@@MyPlayHouse Good that you have it. Cool to see so much magic blue smoke.
I think I might want to invest in some smart ones now..
Wow that was crazy it made more smoke than your UPS that started smoking 😲😲
Yarh this was way more smoke.
Old PSU, old caps, new smoke :) - still, the chassis isn't bad and with 2U there are many options for a DYI server. That must have taken some time to take the smoke out of the house :D
It smelled bad for a few hours,, I did open the door out,, to get rid of it :-)
Looks like a Mendocino core Celeron and the i810 chipset. My first PC in a nutshell. And let me tell you - the pyrotechnic effects probably have more entertainment value than the rest of that thing.
I agree,, this was the best show ever!
This one should have been no.1000 ! Blow up the playhouse... Cheers!😇
Yes that would have been a Blast,, but the rest of the video was a bit iffi..
Marty! It's the flux capacitor! The magic smoke is escaping!!
Yes this PSU Will not be able to give any kind of gigawatts
The smoke is to hide the escaping 'anger pixies'. It's AvE approved.
The fire I been waiting months for!!!!!!!!;
I think the server has been waiting 5 years,, and it only got to smoke :-)
@@MyPlayHouse was smoking hot!
I like that case
I kept it for 8 years,, so so do I :-)
Pretty cool and sad at the same time....
Nahh this was fine,, I am not crying for a 533MHz PC,, and have not for 20 years :-)
@@MyPlayHouse Ah! I get PYRO time!
Ohhhh Myyyy Goddd 😱😵 that's just Happened, just like that! 🤦♂️
I am so happy it did not happen in a real Data Center,,, that would have been Sooooo BAD!!
@@MyPlayHouse yes sir it may Blows up the other Data Centers too.
Just our Luck their is only Smoke not a Fire.
That smoke would have activated any fire suppression system,,, bad and expensive.
did somebody switch the power switch from 240v to 110v
I will have to check that.
My PlayHouse I update and new psu and another video would be nice
Capacitors lol. Love it :D can you do a video of taking the Power Supply apart will be interesting to see.
We might do that..
Reminds me of those Russians that were connecting capacitors directly to an AC cord and then plugging it in.
Propoly not fare from what happen in this power supply.
I had a dual Celeron 533mhz back in the late 90’s used to be very high end.
I am also thinking the time date might have been 4th week of 2001,,, maybe..
Actually the Celleron was a cache stripped version of the flagship pentiums of the day, however I do recall a hack of the day where you disabled some pins to enable some of the pentium features, like the ability to put dual cellerons in a dual socket board with a bodge cable run between the two CPU sub modules (those where the cartridge cpus with the cache on the cart.) I just looked online and could find no mention of it however. MAYBE those pins where bent for a reason and the one in the middle couldn't be bent due to space so they insulated it with something and when you 'fixed' it you didn't? Just a thought.
Open up that power supply next video, I’m curious on what it looks like now
We might have to have a look :-)
I never liked socket 370 cooler mount. It was annyoing to install/remove. Remember friend who killed his motherboard while was installing p!!! tualatin. He applied too much force to mount clamp with flathead screwdriver and well it went trough motherboard.
I like the pins to be on the cheapest part :-)
if that was only the power supply that could possibly be changed with a standard pc psu as the one in it looks like a standard one but this one likely would not be worth it with its current hardware
Yes it was most likely just a bad PSU.
@@MyPlayHouse ive had one or 2 bad psu's in my lifetime and never seen that much smoke come out of one before
Awww, you let the magic blue smoke out. ;-)
Yes,, there was a surprising lot of it in this server,
the magic smoke escape
And it was full!