The minecraft server is completely shot. The PSU blew and took out the motherboard. I’m going to attempt a mobo replacement tomorrow with a spare I have. I’m praying that it didn’t scramble my hard drives…
In the future, I will try offloading my disks to USB controllers, keeping everything independent. I had 7 disks locally attached, and 4 in an external RAID array. If I have time tonight, I will try accessing the disks in hopes all is not lost.
I might end up getting several of these inline usb surge protectors. Hopefully those will work in the event another motherboard fries and sends juice everywhere.
GC Server 3.0 will be strictly Ubuntu. Hopefully I can find a media server as slick as WMP, as the server housed all of my movies and music.
Anyway, wish me luck in recovering what I can and getting back up and running. I’ll probably be listing my old gaming rig case on Craig’s list soon, as I’m going to be gutting it for parts. It’s a Thermaltake Armor+, so if you want it, shoot me a message before it’s gone!
Oh, nearly forgot about this, but my nice new laptop is throwing SMART errors on the main hard drive. When it rains it really pours doesn’t it?