While doing some perusing on Ebay I noticed that there are Pentium Pro to Pentium II upgrade CPUs (Intel Overdrive units) available at a good price. I figured I'd ask to see if anyone has ever used these things successfully? I had tried doing this with a Powerleap Celeron 533 before without...

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I'm running a Proliant 5500 Xeon currently with a single 500MHz 512kb processor and I've been looking around for 550MHz 2Mb cache versions. There seem to be a few available but they're either non-Compaq (IBM or Dell) retention mechanisms or pulled from 8500's and have the wrong heatsinks (and...

Just rebuilding a Proliant 5500 and ran array diagnostic and it asked me if I would like to see the faults. "Port 1 Drive 3 is not stamped for monitoring" I've now swapped out the drive for a spare and the rebuilt array reports 'no problems detected'. What's with the other drive and can it be...

Someone left a Compaq Proliant DL380 with me. I am trying to setup win2k on it. Somebody suggested I get cp005292 on a floppy and press F6 when win2k starts and then press 'S', insert the floppy and rest will get done automatically. It did not.

Are there any Chicago area people looking for a couple of fully functional 1600's that they can come and pickup for free? If so, please respond.

I decided today that it would be a good idea to update my 1850R with one PIII 600 128meg and a 18.2 G drive running Red Hat 9.0 to Fedora Core 4 which turned out to be a mistake. It now hangs on any instance of X server, including the graphical installation. I was able to complete a text...

Have a New G4 HP DL360 2 x 72 GB SCSI Drives, using HP smart array software. Had a disk failure this week on one of the drives, so replaced it with a similar drive both same size etc, only difference I can see is the firmware version ( Different firmware even though its taken from another G4...

Another of my crazy projects. I want to convert a Compaq Deskpro machine to a TV then TIVO box if possible under Linux. I stuck in some cards and installed Linux (FC4). The cards are not recognized. In particular I stuck in a TV tuner card and a wireless network card. For some reason the sound...

hi Yall, I know this posting has been on before but I need help. I have a Proliant 2000 running Win XP. I want to load Linux 7 or 9 or Solaris 10. I'd love Solaris 10 but at this stage would settle for anything. With linux i get to the Hd formatting page and it says it can't find any hardware to...

I've been busy building up my rack today, and put in the 1200 and the 5500 without any great dramas, apart from lifting the 5500 to head height - talk about working out. Now the rail kits I'm using are seconds from the local Compaq wrecking yard. The 1200 was good in that I bought it with rails,...

Suddenly my Super-workstation (ProLiant 3000) running Fedora Core 4 doesn't seem so super. I have a standard 15/30G tape drive connected externally to the onboard SCSI port. I am attempting a backup os 20G (19.383G) to a tape running compression. Now the indicators tell me that the backup will take...

Hi Folks, It's been a while since I've posted anything. I have a question that is not really a Compaq/HP server specific question, but the solution will more then likely be running in my PL6500. So here goes, I have an HP 146.8GB FC SCA2 drive, with an Emulex LP9802 (LC connectors) card. I was...

Hi, I recently removed a tape drive from my 6500 and found when I put the drive cage back in place the system failed to boot up. I am getting an amber light on the "interlock fault" at the front, and an amber light for "misc" on the system board. According to my readings this is relating to the...

After my battle with the PL5000 and a tape drive I found a PL3000 on eBay with a tape drive for about the same price I paid for my tape drive alone. Unfortunately, the seller did a poor job of packing it and as usual UPS was rough and dropped it on the lower left corner pretty hard. When booting...

Have a Proliant 3000 (single 333 CPU, RAID5) that I added an Adaptec 1200 IDE RAID board to. After adding this board, Win2K will not boot unless I unplug the CDROM from the IDE connector on the MB. With the CDROM unplugged, everything runs fine.

I have a Hawking 4 port KVM that won't work with my Compaq servers. Has anyone experienced this? Hawking says it's something going on with the servers. A standard keyboard and mouse work fine when attached directly to the servers. I've tried the same KVM on Dell machines and didn't have...

I have a Proliant 800 that needs a memory upgrade, I would like to max it out but I am not sure what the largest DIMM it will take is. It has 2 x 400MHz Pentium 2 processors and currently has 256 MB (1x128 and 2x64) of PC 100 SDRAM. I have looked at the manuals on Compaq's web site for Proliant...

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I'm about to drop a SA3200 controller into a Proliant 5500 with a ten drive cage. This cage has a single SCSI connector so I need to confirm if the 3200 is 7 or 14 drives per channel? Is the 3200 the 'best' controller for a machine where 32bit PCI is the fastest bus option? Regards, Jason.