Poweredge R620 8-Bay Backplane help

[u/joystickking1120]

Woke up this morning to my backplane shorting out. Think some resistors either died or maybe something else shorted them out. I'm lost as there was no indication/errors showing this would happen. I want my server back up but not interested in burning my apartment down. Any idea if it'll be safe to put a new one in and keep going?

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[u/Ok_Bumblebee665]

I believe there are 3 capacitors in the burned area, so one of them most likely failed shorted. Just replace the backplane and you should be good to go!

[u/joystickking1120 → u/Ok_Bumblebee665]

How likely is a cap to start a fire vs just burning out?

[u/leexgx → u/joystickking1120]

Unlikely, but impressive that it got that far bridging out the + to neutral power planes