So a friend contacted me and said that his friend is selling a server from around 2006. He was selling it for 100 euros. He didn't have a use for it because he doesn't know much about computers. Figured fuck it why not. None of them really knew the specs of it or what it was called (so that I could look the specs up). Anyway I bought it, turned it on, and then the manufacturer logo appears (supermicro). After the logo it did a few checks. First it did a SCSI adapter check, then a RAID controller check. After that a small window appears that says "PhoenixBIOS setup utility". and below it says "Press any key to continue". After that it just restarts itself, when I press a key it also restarts. I tried going into the bios and setting the boot priority to the hard drive and the RAID controller.
So if anyone can help me fix it or identify it I would greatly appreciate it.
Pics of the server:
[url]http://imgur.com/a/uvDOm#9cZRJ[/url]
Pictures of the POST screens (in the order that they appear):
[url]http://imgur.com/a/brNfr[/url]
I just wanted to say that I fixed the problem. I simply cleared the CMOS and it works now.
Also here's the specs:
4 250gb hard drives in RAID
1 250gb hard drive
2gb ddr sdram
X5DAE motherboard [url]http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DAE.cfm[/url]
A Nvidia 7900gs
a soundblaster x-fi
Two dual core Intel Xeon's clocked at 2.4ghz.
Also I installed ubuntu on it. Does anyone have any ideas what to do with it?
[QUOTE=danielmm8888;37303289]I just wanted to say that I fixed the problem. I simply cleared the CMOS and it works now.
Also here's the specs:
4 250gb hard drives in RAID
1 250gb hard drive
2gb ddr sdram
X5DAE motherboard [url]http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DAE.cfm[/url]
A Nvidia 7900gs
a soundblaster x-fi
Two dual core Intel Xeon's clocked at 2.4ghz.
Also I installed ubuntu on it. Does anyone have any ideas what to do with it?[/QUOTE]
It's pretty clear that server was used for some sort of video encoding. With those four BNC connectors on the back, it looks like it has a frame grabber card for use with NTSC/PAL cameras or other video sources.
Also, those are Netburst Xeon CPUs. They aren't dual core, they're each one core with Hyperthreading (which splits them into two virtual cores with half the resources as the full core.) The best way to treat virtual HT cores is each virtual core being half the speed of the real CPU (eg. 2.4 GHz / 2 = 1.2 GHz), though that still isn't technically correct.
Those Xeons are really too slow to do anything with these days. You really can't host any type of game server on them, using it as a LAMP server would be wasteful since Netburst Xeons suck so much power and produce so much heat (as well as being really noisy.)
It does have several good parts in it though (the 5 hard drives, the 7900GS, the frame grabber and RAID controller cards.) I would scrap all of the cards, cables and drives out of the server and sell/donate the rest. You could build a cheap new computer to put all of that stuff in that would utilize those drives much better. Though you'd probably have to sell that 7900GS because nothing these days has an AGP slot.
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