Darren New wrote:

> We had awful luck with brand new Dell PowerEdge machines. We bought six 
> or eight of them, and at least half had hardware failures within the 
> first month or so. Both drive controllers and motherboards needing to be 
> replaced, etc.

That's just it. When we were using it, there was absolutely no hint that 
anything was wrong. But now suddenly it seems to have all mannar of 
faults... WTF? It's been turned off for 3 months!

(The RAM faults all happen at quite a high address - I guess it was 
never used?)

>> Damn... I was going to take that thing home with me. (Since HQ IT 
>> thinks it's worthless.) But I won't bother if it doesn't even work 
>> properly.
> 
> Open it up and scavenge!

LOL! Two 3 GHz Xeons? (Not sure if they're single-core or dual-core 
though.) How many FLOPS is that?

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

Post a reply to this message