Dell Poweredge 2400

[370forlife]

So my local college has a surplus sale about 3 times a month for half the year. Today, I went there during my lunch break and poked around at the old computer stuff. I was really hoping to score a nice 486 system to install Windows 3.11 on, but all there was were gutted P4 Optiplex's and powermac G3 's.

Shame. But I continued to poke around a bit more and found this beast. They have a no-opening policy to prevent people from pocketing ram when no ones looking, so I just picked it up, yup, fells heavy, both power supplies are there, and for $10 I could get that back in the amount of scrap metal in the thing. Get it home and apart. Its got a SL4BS P3 1GHz in it, 512MB of ECC Registered PC133, a couple of network cards, and a SCSI controller. No hard drives though, and missing the caddys to hold them. So I was thinking of a few things to do with it -

Get some caddys online (they seem to go for about $6 a piece) and use it as a fileserver

or

I have a MB/CPU/RAM combo from a different poweredge server that I believe will transplant in. The motherboard has the same funky formfactor, but this board has two 1GHz Xeon P3's with 2GB of ram. May require some creative-ness to get the power supplies to work though.

or

Casemod it for ATX and use it as a computer case.

[Elysarian]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

You could add another PIII into the existing server as far as I can tell - specs I've found say it supports a pair, you likely will need a second VRM module though (every Dell I've worked on has them as plug in modules)

Max ram on the 2400 is 2GB (PC133 ECC)

I have a 2600 (dual S604 Xeons) as a fileserver here and I'm looking to fill the 4 spare bays in it when time and money allows - I have some 80-pin SCSI drives but they're full height so won't physically fit in the hotswap bays.

[Pentium4]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

Hey just so you know, I have four 1GB sticks of REG ECC PC133 sticks, and some Tualatin-S P3's (1.4GHz) if you are interested I haven't touched them in years. And you should add pics

[Logistics]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

Is anyone actually familiar with the supported CPU's on these boards? I have one that has a 550 in it, I believe--haven't touched it, yet. But I read others trying to put in a single 933 and having no luck making it come up. Some info says it will only run 133MHz FSB if the CPU is a 256k L2 cache, while 512k will only run at 100MHz. Regardless, can this thing push dual 1GHz? (I'm not really interested in going through the hassle of doing converters to run dual Tualatins, even if it's possible in this case.)

[TELVM]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

... Some info says it will only run 133MHz FSB if the CPU is a 256k L2 cache, while 512k will only run at 100MHz ...

Microprocessor type: one or two Intel Pentium III microprocessors with an internal operating frequency of at least 500 MHz and an external operating frequency of 100 or 133 MHz

Internal cache: 32-KB L1 cache; 256- or 512-KB L2 cache (512 KB L2 cache only in 100 MHz FSB processors)

http://capita.wustl.edu/CAPITA/Peopl...nual/intro.htm

^ That means PIII Katmai (512KB L2) or PIII Coppermine (256KB L2), which were made up to 1.0GHz for Slot-1. Any of these should run OK after a BIOS update.

To run Coppermines above 1.0GHz (s370) a decent slotket would be needed, and to run Tualatins extra tinkering with CPU pins and slotket connectors.

[ratdude747]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

I have four slokets sitting on a shelf, new in box (opened a couple to inspect). Three are MSI, one is ASUS. If you want some to use/mod, let me know, they were freebies that ever since my AMI meagaDUAL took a dump I never had a use for.

[TELVM]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

The best, bug-free slotkets are those which have a TVC15222 or TVC16222 voltage clamp chip.

[Logistics]

Re: Dell Poweredge 2400

Add polymers and that should probably be about /slotket, if you know what I mean.