IT BS thread

Ha our school had a 386 server... in the late 90's.

 

I wish I had a 386 that still worked! The oldest machine i have is an old 486 Packard Bell.

chadderkdawg got banned?!

 

I just saw that

Edit, he posted something offensive in the American BS thread evidently.

 

Surprising that works, those were nasty. Only thing I've seen worse in that era is a compaq I dove into tht had a plastic shield to divert cooling away from the processor.

My fav old computers were the Micron towers built in '99. damn solid case that was really well built, layout inside was just done right

 

fun with mods in the bs thread. He will be back on Friday.

 

hahaah, is it still up? I'd love to go read it.

Still runs the old Windows 95 i messed up as a kid...parents werent too happy about that back then

Got that right about the Compaqs, proprietary hardware galore on those things. I have one from the early/mid 90s that has one of the Intel Pentium IIs with MMX. The hard drive took up most of the top of the enclosure! I hadn't seen that before on anything, until i opened up that machine.

 

Oh and good news, I fixed a laptop today. Quite quickly actually...

The thing wouldn't POST and num lock LED light was flashing, so i thought maybe the motherboard has gone bad, but the fans still came up, and the hard drive sounds like it was being read.

It was a Dell and after googling the flashing num lock light, I found that for that particular laptop model the graphics cards were known to go bad, but I also found that sometimes RAM needs to be reseated. Well, I've only worked on the innards of a laptop once or twice so I was a little weary about opening his up. Reseating/Putting RAM into that Dell was considerably easier than on my older dell....Well it's Fixed! and I saved a friend from having to buy a new laptop

 

I had a desire to click every icon in the Windows 3.1 control panel, I wanted to know what all the programs did. I still don't really know what the PIF editor did other than it wasn't something I should have played with.

I didn't start fixing things until right before Win95.

 

Nah, mods replaced the offensive pic with something less offensive. From what I gather, you wouldn't want to see it anyways.

 

Hahahahahahahahahahah a


I just googled it..


it's not that gross, just kinda fucked up.

 

Stuipd (*&^ing server. I'm now sitting at 3 hours trying to get the firmware updated on this stupid server. You would think with 40 procs and 256 Gb of memory it wouldn't take that )(*&ing long.

 

40 Procs? What is the architecture of the server?

 

I'm guessing cores?

 

4 x 10 core Intel Xeon E7-4680 processors.

It runs VMware ESX 4.1

 

SWEEEET! I just finished a gig updating 8 IBM Blades to the latest and greatest firmware. The contractor they hired prior to me could figure it out.

I love hardware!

 

Sounds like a thing of beauty.

 

It is when it isn't taking 4 hours to get it put back into production for 2 firmware updates.

 

4hrs to update firmware? Seems like a long time. Is that normal?

Never had anything take that long...even a big rack of dell blade servers.

 

It take for fricken ever to update these servers. part of it is because they use the new UEFI bios, but 4 hours was really ridiculous. It should be closer to an hour or less.

 

Yea, 4hrs for a BIOS update is not natural, or healthy. I'd be pissed, especially if I only planned 2hrs of downtime (padding 1hr)

Been there, just not with firmware