Greg Lindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The AMD servers I've been buying default to ECC off. I figure that > anyone who doesn't care enough to go through the BIOS and find things > like this deserves what they get.
I agree, although sometimes going through the BIOS isn't an option... I'm temporarily helping another lab manage their systems and one of the first things I noticed was that the newer of their two IBM x3455's had a front panel amber "!" indicator lit. Despite this it had been running for a couple of months with no errors. The manual said, not surprisingly, that "!" is a fault indicator, so time to run the diagnostics to find out what that warning means. Unfortunately the BIOS on the system was not set to boot from the external USB CDROM. No problem, I thought (oh so naively), just change the BIOS boot settings. It turned out that on this one x3455 the keyboard works only until the system gets into the first BIOS menu. It takes the "F1" from the keyboard to get there, but after that, it ignores all keyboard input. (Yes, I swapped around keyboards, and the other x3455 had a navigable BIOS with both keyboards tested.) Really one of the oddest failures I've seen lately. It is acting like an old PC, the kind where the USB keyboard support doesn't work in the BIOS, so only a PS/2 keyboard can be used. Except that can't be the case here, since there are no PS/2 ports to use! Regards, David Mathog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
