Hi All,

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

The NUC that the BBS runs on seems to be misbehaving. Not sure where the problem is as of yet, it was working this morning and now it's showing "No operating system found". I took the SSD out and the contents are still
there, but it just doesn't want to boot. The backup ran ok overnight, so nothing would have been lost anyway.

Worse comes to worse I'll fire Mystic back up on the Pi while I investigate more.


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On 23 May 2021, paulie420 said the following...

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

Ugh Warp, that stinks. If the SSD is working fine I think the /var/log directory might be helpful for review.

Let us know what the gremlin was - I hate when a system craps out on us. Bleck!!

So I think the NUC's motherboard may be on the fritz. The SSD seems to be
ok, but the NUC itself refuses to boot to anything at all, no USB sticks,
mSATA SSD or SATA SSD, not even a USB CD-ROM. It just refused to boot to anything.

No biggie though, I just fired Mystic up on my Pi and have mail up & going, just means I'll go back to customizing this one instead of Telegard.


Jay

... Now only if Mystic had built-in taglines

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Sunday 23.05.21 - 18:59, Warpslide wrote to paulie420:

So I think the NUC's motherboard may be on the fritz. The
SSD seems to be ok, but the NUC itself refuses to boot to
anything at all..

How long have you had it?


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Sunday 23.05.21 - 18:59, Warpslide wrote to paulie420:

No biggie though, I just fired Mystic up on my Pi and have mail up &
going, just means I'll go back to customizing this one instead of
Telegard.

-+- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)

* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)


That's a good recovery! But is that system configured with a
different IP address? I can't seem to poll you for scinet.

Probably no big deal since nuthin much seems to be happening on
scinet anyway. :(


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? Might be marginal. The NUC I have only runs off a wall wart... they're pretty good at failing... marginally and catastrophicly.

Spec


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

On 25 May 2021, Spectre said the following...

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? Might be marginal. The NUC I have only runs off a wall wart... they're pretty good at failing... marginally and catastrophicly.

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something that looks like a laptop power supply. I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it a look. The power supply says it should be providing 19V @ 3.42A.


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Tuesday 25.05.21 - 07:25, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its
worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? ...

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something
that looks like a laptop power supply.

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective? I've encountered several over the years that
either simply overheated (showing signs of burning, especially
if they had white plastic) or just quit.

I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it a look.
The power supply says it should be providing 19V @ 3.42A.

Hope it's as simple as that.
--

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

On 25 May 2021, Ogg said the following...

I hadn't though to check that.

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective?

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or anything like that. My volt meter isn't where I thought it was, so I'll need to go hunting for it.

It may be in one of those boxes we didn't unpack from the last house. If that's the case it's probably just easier to buy another one from Amazon...


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Tuesday 25.05.21 - 10:22, Warpslide wrote to Ogg:

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or..

Hope you can sort isolate the matter.

It may be in one of those boxes we didn't unpack from the
last house. If that's the case it's probably just easier
to buy another one from Amazon...

I guess.. that's a viable plan too! :D


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something that looks like a laptop power supply. I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it

You'd want to check it loaded and unloaded. If it sags under load she's probably no longer capable of enough Watts...


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

Ogg wrote to Warpslide <=-

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective? I've encountered several over the years that
either simply overheated (showing signs of burning, especially
if they had white plastic) or just quit.

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought
it home and will attempt to take it apart to see if there is a fuse
in there or something. This is why I hate anything not powered by
gas.

Shawn

... Cat Game #06: Fit into the smallest space available...

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought
in there or something. This is why I hate anything not powered by

Gasoline-powered NUC! Why run your BBS with anything else?!?!

dave

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Pedalion BBS (21:3/143)

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought

Depends.... you may be able to do one of two things... so long as you can figure out the actually battery type, you can probably charge it with an appropriate charger.

If the hot side of the charger has failed, you may be able to power the low voltage side with an alternate power sipply.

Spec


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

Spectre wrote to Tiny <=-

Depends.... you may be able to do one of two things... so long as you
can figure out the actually battery type, you can probably charge it
with an appropriate charger.

Soon as I have time I'm going to open it up and have a look. Failing that
I'm hoping there is a knock off charger on amazon that will do it. Found
a laptop battery for my wife's dell there for like $60 CAD where the dell one was double that.

Shawn

... Evil is a hill. We stand on ours, speak about others.

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

Lightman wrote to Tiny <=-

Gasoline-powered NUC! Why run your BBS with anything else?!?!

I run a generator on the balcony as I don't trust the hydro from
the wall.

Shawn

... No one does as much harm as one going about doing good.

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or anything like that. My volt meter isn't where I thought it was, so I'll need to go hunting for it.

OK here is a couple trouble shooting steps:
Will it boot to bios?
If it's a INTEL NUC here a trouble shooting page:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/wizard-nuc.html
Other common problems is memory, try swapping memory around if your using 2 sticks or stick one at a time in and see if it boots.
Jeff

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Communication Connection (21:1/192)

Hi All,

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

The NUC that the BBS runs on seems to be misbehaving. Not sure where the problem is as of yet, it was working this morning and now it's showing "No operating system found". I took the SSD out and the contents are still
there, but it just doesn't want to boot. The backup ran ok overnight, so nothing would have been lost anyway.

Worse comes to worse I'll fire Mystic back up on the Pi while I investigate more.


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

The NUC that the BBS runs on seems to be misbehaving. Not sure where the problem is as of yet, it was working this morning and now it's showing
"No operating system found". I took the SSD out and the contents are still there, but it just doesn't want to boot. The backup ran ok overnight, so nothing would have been lost anyway.

Ugh Warp, that stinks. If the SSD is working fine I think the /var/log directory might be helpful for review.

Let us know what the gremlin was - I hate when a system craps out on us. Bleck!!



|07p|15AULIE|1142|07o
|08.........

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/05/03 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: 2o fOr beeRS bbs>>>20ForBeers.com:1337 (21:2/150)

On 23 May 2021, paulie420 said the following...

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

Ugh Warp, that stinks. If the SSD is working fine I think the /var/log directory might be helpful for review.

Let us know what the gremlin was - I hate when a system craps out on us. Bleck!!

So I think the NUC's motherboard may be on the fritz. The SSD seems to be
ok, but the NUC itself refuses to boot to anything at all, no USB sticks,
mSATA SSD or SATA SSD, not even a USB CD-ROM. It just refused to boot to anything.

No biggie though, I just fired Mystic up on my Pi and have mail up & going, just means I'll go back to customizing this one instead of Telegard.


Jay

... Now only if Mystic had built-in taglines

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Sunday 23.05.21 - 18:59, Warpslide wrote to paulie420:

So I think the NUC's motherboard may be on the fritz. The
SSD seems to be ok, but the NUC itself refuses to boot to
anything at all..

How long have you had it?


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Sunday 23.05.21 - 18:59, Warpslide wrote to paulie420:

No biggie though, I just fired Mystic up on my Pi and have mail up &
going, just means I'll go back to customizing this one instead of
Telegard.

-+- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)

* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)


That's a good recovery! But is that system configured with a
different IP address? I can't seem to poll you for scinet.

Probably no big deal since nuthin much seems to be happening on
scinet anyway. :(


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

Just a quick FYI that Northern Realms may be down for the day.

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? Might be marginal. The NUC I have only runs off a wall wart... they're pretty good at failing... marginally and catastrophicly.

Spec


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

On 25 May 2021, Spectre said the following...

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? Might be marginal. The NUC I have only runs off a wall wart... they're pretty good at failing... marginally and catastrophicly.

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something that looks like a laptop power supply. I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it a look. The power supply says it should be providing 19V @ 3.42A.


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Tuesday 25.05.21 - 07:25, Warpslide wrote to Spectre:

For what its worth.... good advice costs nothing, and its
worth the price.. have you checked its power supply? ...

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something
that looks like a laptop power supply.

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective? I've encountered several over the years that
either simply overheated (showing signs of burning, especially
if they had white plastic) or just quit.

I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it a look.
The power supply says it should be providing 19V @ 3.42A.

Hope it's as simple as that.
--

--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

On 25 May 2021, Ogg said the following...

I hadn't though to check that.

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective?

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or anything like that. My volt meter isn't where I thought it was, so I'll need to go hunting for it.

It may be in one of those boxes we didn't unpack from the last house. If that's the case it's probably just easier to buy another one from Amazon...


Jay

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

** On Tuesday 25.05.21 - 10:22, Warpslide wrote to Ogg:

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or..

Hope you can sort isolate the matter.

It may be in one of those boxes we didn't unpack from the
last house. If that's the case it's probably just easier
to buy another one from Amazon...

I guess.. that's a viable plan too! :D


--- OpenXP 5.0.50
* Origin: (} Pointy McPointFace (21:4/106.21)

I hadn't though to check that. This NUC uses something that looks like a laptop power supply. I'll have to dust off my old volt meter and give it

You'd want to check it loaded and unloaded. If it sags under load she's probably no longer capable of enough Watts...


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

Ogg wrote to Warpslide <=-

WHAAAAAT!? You never thought that the wall-wart might be
defective? I've encountered several over the years that
either simply overheated (showing signs of burning, especially
if they had white plastic) or just quit.

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought
it home and will attempt to take it apart to see if there is a fuse
in there or something. This is why I hate anything not powered by
gas.

Shawn

... Cat Game #06: Fit into the smallest space available...

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought
in there or something. This is why I hate anything not powered by

Gasoline-powered NUC! Why run your BBS with anything else?!?!

dave

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Pedalion BBS (21:3/143)

I have an electric leaf blower that's useless now. The charger
doesn't work and you (of course) can't buy a replacment. I brought

Depends.... you may be able to do one of two things... so long as you can figure out the actually battery type, you can probably charge it with an appropriate charger.

If the hot side of the charger has failed, you may be able to power the low voltage side with an alternate power sipply.

Spec


*** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
--- SuperBBS v1.17-3 (Eval)
* Origin: We know where you live, we're coming round to get you (21:3/101)

Spectre wrote to Tiny <=-

Depends.... you may be able to do one of two things... so long as you
can figure out the actually battery type, you can probably charge it
with an appropriate charger.

Soon as I have time I'm going to open it up and have a look. Failing that
I'm hoping there is a knock off charger on amazon that will do it. Found
a laptop battery for my wife's dell there for like $60 CAD where the dell one was double that.

Shawn

... Evil is a hill. We stand on ours, speak about others.

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

Lightman wrote to Tiny <=-

Gasoline-powered NUC! Why run your BBS with anything else?!?!

I run a generator on the balcony as I don't trust the hydro from
the wall.

Shawn

... No one does as much harm as one going about doing good.

--- Talisman v0.21-dev (Windows/x86)
* Origin: Tiny's BBS II - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)

Hey, the machine is powering on and appears to be working ok except for that it's not booting. The power adapter isn't hot to the touch or anything like that. My volt meter isn't where I thought it was, so I'll need to go hunting for it.

OK here is a couple trouble shooting steps:
Will it boot to bios?
If it's a INTEL NUC here a trouble shooting page:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/wizard-nuc.html
Other common problems is memory, try swapping memory around if your using 2 sticks or stick one at a time in and see if it boots.
Jeff

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/02/12 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Communication Connection (21:1/192)