Burnt electrical smell

[Gecko]

My linux server system died sometime in the middle of the night last night.

When I got up this morning there was that hint of burnt electrical in the air.
So I started checking what was running, the linux system had no lights on.

The PSU fried (burnt electrical) and it looks like it took the master HDD and motherboard with it.
The asus motherboard has two blown (bulging) capacitors now and will not power up, not even the LED light
The master HDD will not spin at all and its circuit board gets real hot real fast.
The slave drive is intact, my backups are safe at least.

This system was running red hat, apache and mysql for testing server side php and for ftp.
It was an older system AMD 1.3 cpu and 512 ram but it served me will for the last 4 years.

[liljim]

I am so sorry to hear that

Any idea what caused it?

[Gecko]

I'm thinking it was the PSU, there was another system connected to the same UPS and it was not affected.
The PSU is what smelled anyway, as for why one drive went and one didn't I have no clue.
They were matching WD 80g drives both on the same ide cable both on the same 12v lead.
They are both dated 8/30/2002 so I guess I can't complain too much

I've already moved on, I have a used AMD Sempron 2800 system just sitting there.
So I'm setting it up now to be my new linux server.
The new Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS is what I'm trying to get, it comes with Apache, MySql, Php, Ftp preinstalled.