On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:10:30PM +, Robert Walker wrote:
> I amused to read this thread. I've an old dual-Opteron box that I'm
> still using. It was my first "watercooling" experiment. Apart from the
> complete lack of power management support (the system sucks down a
> continuous 300+Wat
On 14/12/12 22:03, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
A friend suggested a big lightning storm a month ago might have
temporarily scrambled something. It tripped breakers in the house and
blew out a battery in the standby generator shed, but I've rebooted
twice since that storm without any problems. I g
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> I did some math, my new rig is almost 8 times faster/powerful than my
> old rig but pulls much less than half the power even when fully loaded.
> I might add, I think the old rig was idle when I measured that.
My next box will be a commodi
Michael Mol wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, wrote:
>> I finally ran out of excuses to not reboot after a night powered off, and it
>> did.
>>
>> It's all running normally now, but I think it's time for me to take the
>> hint, grab a clue, and start researching a replacement.
> I think
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, wrote:
> I finally ran out of excuses to not reboot after a night powered off, and it
> did.
>
> It's all running normally now, but I think it's time for me to take the hint,
> grab a clue, and start researching a replacement.
I think you'll find the power cons
I finally ran out of excuses to not reboot after a night powered off, and it
did.
It's all running normally now, but I think it's time for me to take the hint,
grab a clue, and start researching a replacement.
--
Felix Finch, a la mode
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:43:01PM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
> > Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
>
> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or
> the rescue DVD would
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:43 PM, wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
>
>> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
>
> Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or
> the rescue DVD would take over.
>
>> Yes, your so
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt?
Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point grub or
the rescue DVD would take over.
> Yes, your southbridge chipset could just happened to have failed
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 12:16:46 schrieb Bruce Hill:
> Whatever you think of logic, it is entirely illogical that a kernel could
> kill your BIOS, or any hardware ... at least, just booting into it.
emm, not, it isn't.
--
#163933
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 01:24:10PM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> That's what I've been using.
>
> But the hardware failure is illogical too; why would USB and SATA fail at the
> same time? Or why would southbridge fail when it had been running perfectly
> fine?
>
> I don't really think
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:16:46PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:18:21AM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> >
> > I will try some more desperate tricks today, like reconnecting the USB pile
> > to see if it at least boots the disks again - is my choice between disks
> > an
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:18:21AM -0500, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
>
> I will try some more desperate tricks today, like reconnecting the USB pile
> to see if it at least boots the disks again - is my choice between disks and
> keyboard? I will find out. My best guess right now is that booting
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:22:10PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> how about a more stable kernel - like 3.4.X?
It was running 3.6.8 fine, and ~ kernels for ages before that.
The paranoid in me thinks it was 3.7.0, but I really don't know.
> and yes, a confused bios can do a lot of strange
Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 11:18:21 schrieb fe...@crowfix.com:
> Something went haywire with my 8 or 9 year old dual Opteron ~amd64 system
> last night. I may have a bricked system. I haven't given up yet, but I
> may have to buy a replacement system. I have external USB drive backups,
> but
Am 14.12.2012 17:18, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com:
> Something went haywire with my 8 or 9 year old dual Opteron ~amd64
> system last night. I may have a bricked system. I haven't given up
> yet, but I may have to buy a replacement system. I have external USB
> drive backups, but the only other com
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:28:41AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> (Admittedly quick and dirty response)
Much appreciated. Gives me some hope ...
> Pull out an old PS2 keyboard. Sometimes, that's the easiest way to get
> things going.
I thought of that -- don't have any. They all got recycled a fe
(Admittedly quick and dirty response)
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:18 AM, wrote:
> Something went haywire with my 8 or 9 year old dual Opteron ~amd64 system
> last night. I may have a bricked system. I haven't given up yet, but I may
> have to buy a replacement system. I have external USB dri
Something went haywire with my 8 or 9 year old dual Opteron ~amd64 system last
night. I may have a bricked system. I haven't given up yet, but I may have to
buy a replacement system. I have external USB drive backups, but the only
other computer I have right now is an old Mac laptop which can
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