Almost had a disaster.

I've been at war with the IRS for a couple of months over an under payment of taxes from 07. I reran my numbers through the tax software and it all checked out fine. In doing so I found their error. Two options that were exorcised and had taxes withheld. The federal tax withheld is exactly to the penny what they show as an under payment. Unnamed brokerage house A pulled the taxes and passed them on to parent insurance co. B. On my request for a rechecking of the process, the insurance co found that they had not paid said taxes to the IRS and promptly did so sending me a notarized letter explaining what had taken place. Well Being disabled I'm entitled to a meeting that is scheduled for a government office close to me. No standing in line and waiting my turn at the office 20 miles away. Meeting was to be the 4th and I intended to provoke them as far as I could without breaking the law and then producing the letter. So I thought the I had better have a few more years results ready just in case the were vengeful. I keep old documents on an old SBS sever that is only used about 10min every year now. Not even normally wired up. So I plug it in hit the power button and nada. The back up to that server is tape with a dead tape drive, which I would rather not replace. So I poke around and decide it's the Power supply since it wont even ground start. I dig through what is left of my stuff and was about ready to pull one from a good working box. Everything I had was to small to a server with raid 5 and 5 drives. Then I found an 700watt unit that I had RMA'd years ago. I set it on the server and switched all the connectors over and it fired up. So I held my breath for the raid to re initialize, and the os to load and there it all is. Al I had to do was make a few bios settings, my fault for pulling the battery to check it. The PSU just went bad sitting and unplugged. Never seen that before. Needless to say I spent the morning dumping it all onto a sata drive and boxed that back up and put it in the safe. Put a huge 3 cell 3 volt bios battery in it and went to bed. If that thing had lost the data on it I would have had to beg barrow or snatch a $1200 tape drive. That ringing in you ears late last night was me freaking out when it wouldn't boot. At about 10:30 the Phone rings and the meeting with the IRS is canceled indefinitely. I guess the missing money showed up and has made it's way through the maze.

Wow... that is QUITE a story! and glad that IRS is off your back... whew...

wow I get a little nervous just firing up a new build, can't imagine messing with one like that that has important data on it. That had to feel great when you were able to get everything in order. congrats on the victory