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Forgive me if I didn&#8217;t feel like living my job while out of the office for a couple of evenings.  It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m making any money writing this stuff.  If I were, this server would have been up and running within minutes of going down.  In reality, if money were involved there would have been enough redundancy built in that it could have never gone down in the first place.  So sue me.  Blood..stone&#8230;you know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it took me a while to get around to troubleshooting why this web server wouldn&#8217;t boot. It was a video card issue. I just swapped cards. 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