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Subject:    Re: [novalug] Fileserver woes
From:       "Jay Hart" <jhart () kevla ! org>
Date:       2006-07-31 1:47:40
Message-ID: 6140.192.168.1.16.1154310460.squirrel () www ! kevla ! org
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david,

Usually whe nI have to TB motherboard problems. I do the following tests:

1. Boot normally, get any beeps during post?

2. take the memory out, get any beeps? Are they different from above?

2a. Try a different video card, any luck?

3. If you have a battery that is replaceable on the MB, go ahead and replace it.

4. put out any cards not needed to get into the bios, also remove any connections on the MB not
needed, such as speaker output. Basically during this step you are checking to see if something
else is causing you a problem. Minimum hardware config is what you want.

5. If you can get into bios, see if any firmware updates exists and flash your board. (Fixed many
the computer doing this).

6. Pray on the above works.

Hope this helps,

Jay Hart



> About years ago, using a bunch of random parts and judicious shopping on
> hard drives, I built a 1 terabyte raid 5 server for home use (Running
> CentOS 2.1, I believe)
>
> Last week we had some intermittent power, and the ups ran down.  This
> has happened several times before... I know it is not ideal, but was
> outside of my control (I wasn't home to shut it down, and the UPS isn't
> that smart).
>
> This time, when I try to bring it back up,I get nothing.  No video, no
> beeps, not even lights on the keyboard.  Everything internally seems to
> power up, but to no avail.  I believe the motherboard has failed.  My
> desire would be to replace it with exactly the same make and model,
> Which leads me to 2 questions:
>
> 1) Does anyone know where I could get a DFI 865pe infinity motherboard
> for socket 478?  NewEgg, Amazon, eBay, and even Google failed me in this
> attempt.
>
> 2) If I cannot replace it with that, I already have a semi-comparable
> soyo motherboard that could do in a pinch...  I'm concerned about the
> CentOS install freaking out as it boots, first noticing all the
> different chipsets (northbridge, ethernet, audio, video, etc), then
> having the raid cope with all of the drives possibly changing their
> logical positions relative to each other.  Anyone live through such an
> experience?  There are 5 250 gig eide hard drives, 4 of which are
> connected to 2 pci eide controllers.  There is a separate 30 gig hard
> drive running the OS.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> -db
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