I have a rack of servers and they are all on battery backup. Over the weekend we had a bunch of storms and the power went out. Our battery backups keep them online for roughly 2 or so hours. Our A/C does not have a battery backup, which usually isn't a problem except it was very hot and humid this weekend. I got a call that said our internet was down. When I got there 2 of the servers were on the bios screen with hundreds of ....................... and fans were at full speed. These two servers are the primary and secondary DC for our network. I switched all traffic to the 3rd DC so this isn't an problem. Anyways I turned them both off. Let them sit for a bit then turned the primary one on and it would boot into windows and about 10-20 seconds after it fully booted it would reboot and go back to the screen full of ......................
the secondary server booted and did the same thing except it stayed on for a few minutes. I was able to pull the drives out and shove them in other boxes and they booted fine and are working. So I know the drives aren't corrupted. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is this a overheating issue or did I burn something up inside the boxes?
Thanks
