Re: dead box??
On Saturday 14 December 2002 02:55 pm, Richard Fillion wrote:
> My computer crashed out of the blue last night, it was the
> first time ever that it crashed where i didnt know what caused
> the crash. When i rebooted it, "the smell" engulfed the room.
> You know, that horrid "burning circuits" smell. So i put it
> off, and opened the box. I looked all over for what had
> fried, took all the pci cards out, nothing smelt burnt. So i
> put it all back in, and put it back on, hoping that whatever
> broke would break some more so that i'd see what went wrong.
> But instead all went fine, and it booted into debian. So i
> shut it off, closed up the case, and put it back on. No more
> problems.
>
> I wake up this morning, move the mouse to wake up the box,
> nothing. Hit the keyboard, nothing, try pinging from
> roommate's computer, nothing. So i power it off, and power it
> on, all sounds well, but monitor doesnt turn on. So i open up
> the case, and look around. I touch the heatsink, its cold.
> It shouldnt be burning hot, but it shoiuldnt be COLD. Nothing
> smells burnt, it sounds right, the harddrives spin up, but i
> get no output. The heatsink doesnt even get warm. Just
> confirmed, power gets to the PS/2 ports, cause the optical
> mouse's light goes on. I dont have a null modem cable here to
> be able to telnet in, is there any more than what i've done
> thta i can do?
Not much I can think of, at least not without a null-modem
cable. Did you actually try to boot it with a minimal
configuration?
> Its a Digital Server 3305, apparently exactly like an
> ALphaserver 8000.
>
> Lets say hypotheticallly the CPU is done for, would buying a
> replacement off of ebay be that hard? Or would i just be
> better off buying a whole new box and just tranfering all the
> components?
I'd say it's far cheaper to get a CPU off of eBay. Just looking
right now, I see a couple of 21264's with "Buy it now" for less
than $100. There's also a 21164+PC164LX up for a mere $5
(though there's four days left for auction campers to change
that).
IIRC the AlphaServer 8000 is a 21164-based system, upgradeable
to 21264? I wouldn't swear to that though.
--
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does
it still cost four figures to fix?"
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