As expected, one of the old basement warhorses failed to boot a couple months ago. This one is the old Supermicro server from the PentiumIII era. It was the hot ticket for a mid-range server when I first built it in 1999, IIRC. I think the last time it was revamped was about about 5 years ago. I don’t usually do much troubleshooting anymore whenever a problem crops up with the old hardware collection in the basement. New parts are several orders of magnitude better and less costly now, so typically I’ll just upgrade the box like I did with Frankenputer from the previous post. I realized I still had plenty of good parts for this one though, so I just re-stuffed it and pressed on.
Specs:
Dual 800mhtz PIII
4-gig RAM
64-bit Adaptec Raid5 (Win Server 2003)
64-bit Intel Pro gigE Netcard