Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csi comp uter
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:40:37AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote:
>
> > thats exactly what happend to my bp6...
> >
> > hugh
>
> We've got a BP6 in the fileserver here, I must have one of the few that is
> stable. It wasn't stable for the first few months of its life though.
> I ended up figuring out on my own that you needed a heatsink and fan on
> the chipset or it would puke.
yeah, mine had the heat sink and fan from a 486, fitted nicely.
It was stable [even when overclocked] running woody with an smp kernel.
Died because i added a graphics card before it had powered down properly
[user-error, not hardware failure!]
> I've been trying for over a year to get this thing replaced with a good
> ASUS P4B533, but management is "it works, why replace it?"
i'll have the bp6 when you get it replaced ;-)
hugh
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