::Knopper.TK::

My old homeserver was getting a bit slow, especially when you consider that it's a Via Epia system that runs at 600Mhz and has 256MB of memory. This particular feeling got even stronger when I uploaded my pictures of my last holiday (about 500) and it had to create thumbnails for every picture and everything.

Since the server is in my room and I look my room to be quiet when I sleep I immediately started looking for a more modern Epia system and eventually the Epia LN with a Eden CPU at 1Ghz got my attention. I ordered it together with 1GB of memory and a 320GB HD (the old one was 80GB). Everything fine until then.

The new parts were delivered at my house and of course I wanted to try it out right away. So I unpacked it, assembled it and put it into the case. I connected the power supply and even could see the leds of the network card burning... But, that's about the only thing it would do. When I switched the whole thing on the power led burned for an instant and after that the whole board was dead. Even the network card didn't produce any light anymore... I tried a whole lot of things until I realized the power supply possibly couldn't produce enough power and thus I used the power supply of my used-to-be desktop system. Guess what, everything worked fine! Since the power supply was as big as the whole system this wasn't an ideal situation and therefore I ordered a PicoPSU from the same shop which can deliver more power than the old one. It arrived today and now everything works smoothly.

So I almost spent a whole week figuring out the problem and waiting for new parts. Why can't things just work straight away? Well, at least I'm happy with the improved performance...