Pathetic mewing

Well, the reboot of NUPU looked like it was going well last night… For the first three seconds. Then as I had remoted the screen started filling up with help windows. Quickly. As it reached a hundred of them I had gotten to Ctrl-Alt-Del and as that opened it started filling in the comment window with 11111111111111111. I stabbed at the restart button and waited while the count of help windows went from 197 down to 1 and then everything went black.

I started a ping session, noted when it stopped responding and then waited. 5 minutes. 10 minutes. 15 minutes. No NUPU.

The drive to Mail Order was uneventful.

When I got to Mail Order I found the server room to be what felt like 110 degrees, but after bringing in a thermometer saw that it was only 90.

Nupu was stuck in recognizing the harddrives and making this pathetic screeching sound, like a kitten under a boot making it’s last gasps. Okay, that may be a bit too vivid.

I pulled the front face plate off of NUPU and the screeching stopped momentarily – I hit the restart button and then replugged in the keyboard and mouse that had popped out of their sockets (being plugged into the front.) As it rebooted I headed out to look for cool. I cranked the A/C in the office to high but it didn’t feel very cold. I then went into the admin office and set the thermostat to FAN ON so that it would at least vent the air from the server room = there’s an air intake in the server room, but no air vent blowing in.

When I got back to NUPU the pathetic mewing had returned and it has stopped at harddrive checks. I pulled on the front faceplate again and the mewing stopped and the boot commenced one step, then the sound returned. Then in a flash of groggy heat-laden insight I yanked the keyboard and mouse plugs out of the front of the machine and the sound stopped and the booting commenced. I followed the cords back and found a backup tape cartridge sitting on the keyboard effectively pressing several keys. One quick swipe to rectify that and plugging the keyboard and mouse back in and the server came up from boot just fine.
The drive home was uneventful.