ugh.......dirty

[willawake]

maximum uptime = look like this after 5 years.

[CaysE]

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I don't mean to one-up you, but I've cleaned far worse than that. Anyway, when you're done cleaning it, the satisfaction is fulfilling. Can't wait for the after shots!

[kc8adu]

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wait till you get to service a server in a pole barn.mice living in the dlt changer.wasps in the top of the case.
junk sticking out of non running fans.

[Chris1992]

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Yecch. I saw a 1995 Packard Bell that was about as bad as that. What sort of machine is it?

[arneson]

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Man, did that come off an aircraft carrier? Looks like jet exhaust.. or foot fungus.

[willawake]

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nope i think its car exhaust. it was in a room next to the main road on the 3rd floor. kinda makes you think about what you are breathing. i see only machines in the city with this black dust.

I don't mean to one-up you, but I've cleaned far worse than that.

I would not be happy to have the most disgusting server so dont worry.

mice living in the dlt changer.wasps in the top of the case.
junk sticking out of non running fans.

ok i think i will remain in the city, thanks

dunno what to do with it yet though. the scsi disks have been whining for a long time so i wont use them. i was running it out of production until they died but got bored waiting, quantum scsi are definitely better than the ide. it was installed in 1999 so it is older than i thought. i will definitely clean it. It would be nice to serve archive data using pci sata. a gig of ram and some new procs would be nice...........sad to shut it down, i will miss novell.

Yecch. I saw a 1995 Packard Bell that was about as bad as that. What sort of machine is it?

HP LC3, PII 350, 128mb, 2x10gb software raid-1 novell 4.11
replaced by HP DL380 G4, 3.4ghz xeon, 1gb, 3x72gb u160 hardware raid-5 + hot spare, redundant psu, redundant fan kit. RHEL 4

[willawake]

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All parts cleaned and ready for assembly





doh! there is only one 8.2 vrm so no dual possible unless we find one.





hdd caddys. if you buy an HP server secondhand, make sure it has enough of these and not just blanking plates.



acbel psu API-6127 350w



psu interior



all panels on

[Per Hansson]

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doh! there is only one 8.2 vrm so no dual possible unless we find one.

Not one of these by chanche :P :P :P

[willawake]

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looks interesting, i dont know if it would be compatible though. what do the other stickers say.

situation with the server at the moment is the psu is playing up. i had problems to start before one time when i had to down it a while ago. now it was starting then restarting repeatedly with no cdrom/hdds attached.

eventually started properly so i shut it down again and i reattached them and got it up. the hdds sound like shit now. i am not suprised, when you take elderly servers out of service for a while and then start them again big problems start.

anyway the hdds are for the trash i know anyway. what about the psu though? the caps are chemicon and look ok. any ideas? i will take it apart and check it with the esr meter to see whats up. but anything else i should check except for the caps? need to refurb psu otherwise it is all no use,

[Per Hansson]

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Odd, And I looked at that PSU and thought, ahh, old nice servers always use good powersupplies, oh well

Regarding the VRM, I was only teasing you, I need it myself

A friend to me shutdown a Netware 3.11 server at a place, it had 6 years uptime, the HDD's never spun again after that... Of Course he was wise enough to actually make a backup before "down":ing it, because he was kind of expecting it with that kind of uptime

[willawake]

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it looks like a good psu, just needs some work. dont worry about the vrm, ebay is calling. actually i need ram more than cpus.

lol, your friend made a good call. ctrl+alt+esc and your life flashes before you along with various other text lol. i guess if my server had been running anything else it would have not looked like that. look what the designers have to take into account, the overclock boys who nuke it quickly or the server boys who give it a slow death. (actually it might be the accountants who do that)

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Odd, And I looked at that PSU and thought, ahh, old nice servers always use good powersupplies, oh well

Regarding the VRM, I was only teasing you, I need it myself

A friend to me shutdown a Netware 3.11 server at a place, it had 6 years uptime, the HDD's never spun again after that... Of Course he was wise enough to actually make a backup before "down":ing it, because he was kind of expecting it with that kind of uptime

That sucks! That reminds me of a 162 MB Quantum HDD I have. It seemed to not spin up when it's cold or at least when below a certain temperature. It seemed that whacking it sometimes would make it spin up! LOL!

[linuxguru]

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Yup - the AcBel PSU is not as good as the earlier (?) Delta OEM units that HP was using. It should be fine after a recap, though. Give a shot of TV tuner cleaner or switch cleaner to all the power connectors, as well.

I'm not sure about this particular system, but if it's a i440BX chipset, it may be capable of supporting Cumines in slotkets with a VRM upgrade to 8.4 and a BIOS upgrade (for Cumine microcodes). I was able to do that to a HP Kayak XU that originally had a Deschutes PII/350. Another option (even more iffy) is a Tualatin-conversion Slotket.

[willawake]

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yeah it must be a bx, i see a fw82443bx

good call.

[Chris1992]

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I just noticed you replaced the PSU fan backwards. The label side should be facing away form the components.

[tiresias]

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I just noticed you replaced the PSU fan backwards. The label side should be facing away form the components.

I beg to differ.

Notice the location of the PSU - at the very bottom of the case. It is therefore logical, coolingwise, that this should be an air intake, not an exhaust.

[willawake]

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both fans are backwards. i fixed them after uploading the pix. original for the psu was for exhaust so i continue original design

[Chris1992]

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>so i continue original design
like me when i fix somebody else's prebuilt. When I fix my own, I do lots of little cooling and silencing tweaks.

[VILE DISRUPTION]

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i am new to this forum anyway once i opened my pc to install some more ram i saw everything extremly dusty and somehow a noodle packet inside and i dont remember putting it there when i changed the heatsink but a noodle packet! something you dont see every day now how the hell could THAT have gotten in?!

[kc8adu]

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you must have kids.
funniest item i have removed from a customers pc was a condom still in its package stuffed into a pcmcia slot.