CICS burning hot

[lvNortel]

I have never had this happen before so I was wondering if this has happened to any of you. I was testing an older CICS and had it running for a few hours on my test bench. I started to smell a combination of wood and plastic burning. I lifted up the the CICS and my finger got burned as though I had touched a red hot stove top burner. It was from the heat sink on the back of the CICS.

Of course I unplugged it and opened up the housing. I noticed pat of the inside had started to melt. The small square power supply board was red hot! I bet this thing could have caught on fire.

Has this ever happened to you before?

"A phone is a phone and not a computer workstation".

 

[lvNortel]

P.S. Could the large CPU board be causing this problem or could it just be the power supply is bad? I have a spare power supply from another unit and even thought this happened the system was still on line and working during the test.

"A phone is a phone and not a computer workstation".

 

[SupportDude]

Haven't heard that one before.

-SD-

http://www.mysupportguy.net

 

[lvNortel]

Replaced the power supply using the same CPU and it is running at normal temp.. Must have been just a bad PS.

"A phone is a phone and not a computer workstation".