Supermicro curse strikes again

[Topcat]

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I got a pair of those... in the system this thread of shame was made about originally no less.

Nah, not shame.....just a quirky old board that has gone from a workhorse in the day to now being thrown together as a novelty during this novel-cv19 downtime. Good but goofy P4-era gamer system with period specific hardware.

[ratdude747]

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Gracias.....I was given one of these....the only reason I'm wasting time on it, it came with a pair of 3.2GHz 533fsb (SL7AE) Gallatins w/2mb L3's.

I got a pair of those... in the system this thread of shame was made about originally no less.

[Topcat]

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Reviving this to attach a relevant but no-longer-available file.

This is the latest X5DAL Bios. No mods. Pulled from a softpedia external mirror (SM no longer lists it, maybe still available on their FTP?

Happy flashing!

Gracias.....I was given one of these....the only reason I'm wasting time on it, it came with a pair of 3.2GHz 533fsb (SL7AE) Gallatins w/2mb L3's.

[ratdude747]

Re: Supermicro curse strikes again

Reviving this to attach a relevant but no-longer-available file.

This is the latest X5DAL Bios. No mods. Pulled from a softpedia external mirror (SM no longer lists it, maybe still available on their FTP?

Happy flashing!

[ratdude747]

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Supermicro makes both boards and chassis (and barebones that combine both). The real question is how many HDDs does it support... some only hold one or two (these are made more for processing power) and others hold 4 or more (these are made more for network storage).

I can't say people all over would be interested, but I know that I think such isn't junk (and I know I'm not the only one on BCN who thinks so).

[NJRoadfan]

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Looking at the photos I got, its not just SuperMicro. There is an Intel Server Board SE7525RP2 mixed in there with a few 6024 chassis.

[ratdude747]

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Happened across this thread. A friend of mine is looking to unload some mostly NOS Socket 604 Supermicro Superserver 6024 series rack mount equipment. Do people actually want these things anymore?

Yes. *drool*

If you were closer I'd be interested (moving out very soon, I could use a decent file server since my current one stays with my parents)

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Posting from it now... so far so good. running pretty quick too. faster than I'd expect. Now I remeber why I worked so hard on it...

[NJRoadfan]

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Happened across this thread. A friend of mine is looking to unload some mostly NOS Socket 604 Supermicro Superserver 6024 series rack mount equipment. Do people actually want these things anymore?

[ratdude747]

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Any good ratdude ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/3WARE-AMCC-9...item19fb69d2d1

No BBU. No bueno. I already have 2 9550's (both with BBU) in service and a pair of 9500's sitting (one with a bad battery (good bbu board), the other with a good BBU)... but the 9500's were so doggedly slow in comparison.

Stj, this thing has two PCI-X slots, along with two PCI slots and an AGP Pro 8x slot. This thing is twin xeon beast (only ATX though, not EATX).

[stj]

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PCI-X, you need a good server board for that.

[diif]

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Any good ratdude ? http://www.ebay.com/itm/3WARE-AMCC-9...item19fb69d2d1

[ratdude747]

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more updates:

-got the PSU back (my buddy happened to gift me a HP XW4000 which is now my parent's rig)... and I've toyed with the X5dal some:

-SLIC still doesn't work (yay having 2 boards so I could hotflash my way out). The X6DA8 had no issue though... odd... whatever, I have 3 7 upgrade keys, one of which is still allocated to said rig. all this means is I have to install XP first (big deal)

-I got the 8GB RAM to work... I figured out that it seemed to play nice with my 128mb Geforce fx5200 card with 8GB... upped the AGP apeture to 256MB (max) and now it plays well with 8gb and my 1GB HIS HD4680 (IIRC, it's been too long).

-Insult to injury: my 320GB HDD went belly up in storage... the one it replaced under warranty did the same thing. Damn WD POS... and I liked WD drives. Good thing I had an 80GB seagate not in use (now I need to find a decent SATA HDD, or 3 and a 3ware 9550 )

[ratdude747]

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Odd update:

I found out the secret to SLIC'ing Supermicro boards... whatever you do, DO NOT UPDATE THE BOOTBLOCK! That means if you use the .bat, axe the /BBU option (or type "phlash16 /x /s ____.rom). This also means if you're updating to a newer version, flash the vanilla rom first (with the bootblock) and then flash the modded (without the bootblock).

Did it to my X6DA8 w/o issues... I'd also do it to X5DAL in question but until I get around to recapping a spare PSU, it's PSU will continue to be stuck in another rig (my parents).

Yay mydigitallife... The X6DA8 decided to break activation on my update copy for a bit, and I decided to google it one more time... and found an obscure server/workstation mod thread that had this tidbit

[ratdude747]

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^Not worth replying, I'm not going to start a flame war over slander and BS.

[brethin]

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^Moot point... And FWIW It's still a bit dirty IMHO to publicly say "you can have it" and then sell it when somebody flashes dollar signs... Yes, money talks, but there is something to sticking to your word.

To me only SCUM sucking freeloaders use the "He said I could have it" over "I will pay for it" excuse.

Isn't it time to get off the free handout tit and start earning your place in life?

What you need to learn is real life and I hope you start learning it before you get married and have kids so they don't have to suffer at your expense.

[ratdude747]

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^Moot point... And FWIW It's still a bit dirty IMHO to publicly say "you can have it" and then sell it when somebody flashes dollar signs... Yes, money talks, but there is something to sticking to your word.

[brethin]

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Um no, he said I could have it. I have higher dibs, unless Topcat is a complete sellout.

Dick move Imho.

Wow just noticed this post, your a arrogant ass.

And WTF is "Higher Dibs" giving it to you for free or selling it to me for cash is 2 different things. Now if he was choosing who to give it to for free then yes you should be first but that was not the case. I offered $ for it and you "as usual were looking for a free handout.

[ratdude747]

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Um no, he said I could have it. I have higher dibs, unless Topcat is a complete sellout.

Dick move Imho.

[brethin]

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^
That board served well. There are untold hours on that board, as it ran 24/7/365 from 2003-2010. SM boards are tough, but not indestructible.

I'm working on something, if it pans out, you can have the X5DAL-G board out of the SM case I posted earlier in the thread, as I won't have any use for it.

If that X5DAL-G includes 2 of any speed processors with heat sinks and fans and any amount of memory then I would like to buy it from you.

[ratdude747]

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^
That board served well. There are untold hours on that board, as it ran 24/7/365 from 2003-2010. SM boards are tough, but not indestructible.

I'm working on something, if it pans out, you can have the X5DAL-G board out of the SM case I posted earlier in the thread, as I won't have any use for it.

Ok.

Likewise, What I can find:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...7uOxoCAZjw_wcB

(best EATX deal I've seen so far, but out of budget until I sell some shit)

Yup, No EATX case for me any time soon.