What case form factor are you looking for, I may have a new IBM under warranty that I can sell to you for what you are looking to spend... All Xeons john plemons Scott Silva wrote: > 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. The >> hardware 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.8.2/1735 - Release Date: 10/20/2008 2:52 PM > > -- John Plemons Electro Mavin Tennessee <http://www.mavin.com> for website 423-746-2846 ( 423-74-MAVIN ) - Local 888-756-2846 ( 888-75-MAVIN ) - Toll Free 423-746-2692 FAX eMail john at mavin.com <mailto:john at mavin.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20081021/6957fa69/attachment-0005.html>