on 10-21-2008 11:18 AM Camron W. Fox spake the following:
Alle,
We have recently had one of our office servers go south. Thehardware was an Intel SDS2 motherboard (EATX), Dual Intel PIII 1.4GHz FC-PGA2-L2 512KB, 3GB (6x512MB) 168 pin DIMM, SDRAM 133MHz/PC-133-ECC with 1x3Ware 7006-2 and 2x3Ware 7506-4LP RAID controllers. The OS was RHEL3. Apparently, according to the beep codes, there has been an FRB failure. I've migrated most of the services (mail,web,proxy,samba,mysql,mailman,home directories) to an interim box running CentOS 5.2. At a minimum, I need to replace the motherboard and CPUS (I'm told they are unrecoverable). All the remaining hardware I plan to re-use, as well as moving from RHEL to CentOS. Does anyone have any recommendations on replacement motherboards with CentOS 5.2 in mind, along with the re-usable hardware requirements?
Best Regards, Camron
I have doubts that you will be able to re-use memory, unless you can find something in old stock somewhere. No new boards use PC-133 memory that I know of. But 3 gigs of new memory are *relatively* inexpensive. If the raid cards are PCI, they should still be usable. The case might be usable, if you can find EATX motherboard. IMHO a server is too critical a piece of hardware to re-use parts unless it is a spare or secondary backup point.
By the specs, that server has probably already served for 5 years or more. If you are willing to use refurbished parts you can look here;
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=G7ESZ-WB-R&cat=MBB
Or if your budget can go higher
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SE7501BR2-KIT-R&cat=MBB
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SE7501CW2-K2&cat=MBB