EVERY SINGLE capacitor on the motherboard looked like these. Frankly I'm shocked it even powered on, let alone booted to the CMOS setup in an intelegible way. They were even on the video card (which incidentally *was* dead, I swapped it out for testing above.)
So naturally I stripped it for parts. It yielded me some choice goods. The 2.8GHz Xeons are a great score for my currently-2.4GHz Asus PC-DL rig, those huge passive coolers will be a nice improvement and I think I can use the RAM in it too.
Here's everything that was left after all was said and done. (I also ended up tossing the dead HDD and one of the DVD drives which had a broken belt.) Note that I did save the video card after all; there aren't many caps to replace and they're easily accessible. A 512MB AGP card is rare enough that I'm willing to give a shot at getting it going again.
Sadly that cool dual-orientation case was in a really sorry state - filthy, with a lot of dented panels and broken plastic bits. It also weighed WAY more than it should have for its size - a good 10-12kg at least, which is about 8kg more than I felt like dealing with. It went back in the bin. Can't save everything, but at least some of this one will live on.
Scraphoarder wrote:Not mine, but could have some if i want. HP Proliant workhorses stored at work. Almost all of them had been in service for over 10 years before they got retired.
Not pictured and in racks is a DL380 G3 that was shut down one week ago and two DL380 G4 still in service. Nothing critical running on them, but some legacy stuff we havent bothered to virtualize.
One DL380 G5 with a pair of some Xeon 5xxx and three ML370 G7 with dual P3 1266 Tualatins.
Five DL380 G3, four DL380 G4 all with dual netburst Xeons, one DL360 G2 with dual P3 1400 tualatins, one DL360 G3 and a HSV100 san Controller.
We have 140 FC 15K 300GB drives and also many 146GB, 450GB and 500GB. 4 drive shelves from an EVA 3000 and 12 from two EVA 4100/6100. Also have all controllers, but a complete SAN use too much power nowadays and luns are limited to 2TB size. Could probably connect the shelves directly to a HBA and make a big JBOD or sw raid.gdjacobs wrote:FC-AL is dandy if you have the drives!
tizzdizz wrote:Question - if the case were a beige midtower, would you have held onto it?
Errius wrote:Which HP Netserver do you have?
Unknown_K wrote:Errius wrote:Which HP Netserver do you have?
Netserver LC II
oeuvre wrote:Pretty sweet RISC box there! Welcome aboard.
Today I got this Pavilion in the mail and I tore it apart, cleaned it, reassembled and upgraded it. Runs very nicely. More pictures + info here https://imgur.com/a/fAnCF