Killed a Supermicro... Award or shame?
I had a supermicro die on me on friday... but I was out of town until today and I was able to confirm the failure.
Board: Supermicro PDSGE
Cause of death: Possible overheat due to 775 peg failure
What happened was my mom was playing sands of time on it (it was my parent's rig) and it gave the overheat beep alarm... she let it sit that way for 15 minutes before telling me because she thought it was a "paper jam" on the printer!
Somehow the computer was still running, albeit "a tad slow"... thermal throttling extreme!
I immediately cut power and long behold two 775 pegs had come loose some how. everything was blazing hot... let it cool for 15 while I packed my bqags for the weekend... come back, reconnect cooler, no POST.
When I got back today, I tried using my spare P4 775 CPU and messing with the RAM... no dice.
This board was a repair job to begin with; it had 775 socket damage which I somehow repaired (hence why topcat sent it as a freebie)... there was a white spot on one of the lga pads and I adjusted a few of the rebent pins... but that didn't help either.
I don't get it... it was running up until I did a hard power down...
And in case you're wondering... I moved the PSU, GPU, and HDD over to the remains of my HTPC on steroids project and gave them that to use. Being a desktop flat case, the HS is horizontal and less likely to come loose
The real reason is it's the best I had in the spare pile minus Main rig V2 (currently in use) and Given how bad the dust bunnies were with it being a fiberboard plank away from berber carpet, I figured it would be a good fit. Plus they get a QAM tuner out of the deal (I'll probably pull that since I doubt they care to use it).
Yes, a sad day over RD's world...
Board: Supermicro PDSGE
Cause of death: Possible overheat due to 775 peg failure
What happened was my mom was playing sands of time on it (it was my parent's rig) and it gave the overheat beep alarm... she let it sit that way for 15 minutes before telling me because she thought it was a "paper jam" on the printer!
Somehow the computer was still running, albeit "a tad slow"... thermal throttling extreme!
I immediately cut power and long behold two 775 pegs had come loose some how. everything was blazing hot... let it cool for 15 while I packed my bqags for the weekend... come back, reconnect cooler, no POST.
When I got back today, I tried using my spare P4 775 CPU and messing with the RAM... no dice.
This board was a repair job to begin with; it had 775 socket damage which I somehow repaired (hence why topcat sent it as a freebie)... there was a white spot on one of the lga pads and I adjusted a few of the rebent pins... but that didn't help either.
I don't get it... it was running up until I did a hard power down...
And in case you're wondering... I moved the PSU, GPU, and HDD over to the remains of my HTPC on steroids project and gave them that to use. Being a desktop flat case, the HS is horizontal and less likely to come loose
The real reason is it's the best I had in the spare pile minus Main rig V2 (currently in use) and Given how bad the dust bunnies were with it being a fiberboard plank away from berber carpet, I figured it would be a good fit. Plus they get a QAM tuner out of the deal (I'll probably pull that since I doubt they care to use it). Yes, a sad day over RD's world...
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