Christian Freund wrote:
> Hello Fernando,
>
> a "blade"-server has the idea to save space and share resources of the
> fitting enclosure, like SAN(or only SAN-switch), Network-Switch and
> Power-Supply.
>
> I didn't know that it is a "play-out-hack-project" to get an ancient
> junk-blade running without its enclosure. In that case you better isolate
> the board from the casing and somehow rivet it into one of your
> mini-towers. ;-) CentOS will run fine on that.
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Oh. Urk. You need it inside something, and a lot of it is in the slot that
the blade plugs into. I take it there was no enclosure in the dumpster?
For that matter, do you have any idea if it's worth spending the time on?
It could have been tossed because it was old... but I'd wonder if it was
tossed because either the m/b or the CPU failed. Memory's not a big deal,
but....
Another thought: *carefully* examine the m/b. Techie friends have talked
at length about capacitors burning out.
You also need to figure out if it will run not in a case. Cooling is a
*REAL* issue - you have to have a really good airflow over the CPU and
DIMMs is there a shroud in there, to channel the airflow?
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