Server Upgrade Blues
Last night I spend more than three hours in Hetzner's Data Center upgrading two machines. What a frustrating job it was.
On the first machine I had to replace the single 2.8Ghz processor with two new processors, which mean I had to get the old one out first. I could not get the heatsink off because a one of the four screws jamned in the stud fixing it to the chasis. After removing the whole main board form the case I finally got the new processors and harddrives in. Still need to do a BIOS upgrade though, it complains about missing microcode and you need to push F1 before it will boot.
On the second machine -- an Intel rackmount model -- I had to install another SATA drive. But it seems the motherboard/backboard combination only allows two SATA drives. It looks like you can set this in the BIOS, but no ammount of twidling worked, so I had to give up on this one.
At least I finally met Hamish in person. And he lent me a hand with the particularly difficult cpu replacement. There is something to be said for someone who'd stay there until past nine and still be willing to help. Thanks Hamish!
On the first machine I had to replace the single 2.8Ghz processor with two new processors, which mean I had to get the old one out first. I could not get the heatsink off because a one of the four screws jamned in the stud fixing it to the chasis. After removing the whole main board form the case I finally got the new processors and harddrives in. Still need to do a BIOS upgrade though, it complains about missing microcode and you need to push F1 before it will boot.
On the second machine -- an Intel rackmount model -- I had to install another SATA drive. But it seems the motherboard/backboard combination only allows two SATA drives. It looks like you can set this in the BIOS, but no ammount of twidling worked, so I had to give up on this one.
At least I finally met Hamish in person. And he lent me a hand with the particularly difficult cpu replacement. There is something to be said for someone who'd stay there until past nine and still be willing to help. Thanks Hamish!
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