At some point towards the end of my trip to the States, Cordelia died. She's my web, mail and file server, running Linux. Looking at the symptoms, it looked like a hard drive was causing the problem. She'd boot up, start mounting the hard drives, then halfway through a filesystem check (on a 200GB hard drive, takes a bit of time) she'd re-boot. So I bought a new hard drive to replace two that could've been causing the problem.
Anyways, I get back from Becca & Neil's Dr. Who finale night, with the best intentions of cracking on with the transplant, and she's not starting at all. I had a brief flicker of life from her, then nothing. Now the power supply has been a bit dodgy ever since she was my main computer. Sometimes took a bit of a wiggle on the power connector to get her going, but once she was going, she'd be fine. This time, nothing. So, after dropping my car off at the garage, I popped into PC World for a new power supply. Not the most economic place to get one, but at short notice it was the best I could do. Novatech is a 30 mile round trip for me and would've saved me £5.
So now I'm in the process of transplanting her heart, and giving her a go with the old hard drives, see if I can't bring her back to life as she stands.
**UPDATE**
After installing the new power supply, and re-installing all the hard drives, looks like she lives!!!! Ran an fsck on the large drive, only a few errors which were fixed OK.
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