Dead switch

Soldato
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Well when I went to bed last night around 23:00 the core switch on my home lan was working but at 06:00 this morning I couldn't get to my file server from another machine on the network.

Looking at it the whole thing looks to be dead, no lights at all. Its plugged into a 6x belkin surge protector gang and other things on that are ok.

Didn't have much time for investigation this morning before leaving for work but I was wondering if anyone else had had issues with switches just dying. The switch is a Netgear 8-port gigabit jobby, (the small blue metal type (GS108) instead of the white plastic ones), and there would have been little/no traffic going through it at the time.
 
Yeah..it does happen with switches and the cheaper they are, the quicker it can happen. I've had two 24 ports and 3 8 ports (mixture of 10/100s and gigs) die on me over the past two years or so. Then again, they do get a lot of abuse :)
 
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