CentOS - Oct 2008 - Replacement for Intel SDS2 Motherboard

Alle,

	We have recently had one of our office servers go south. The hardware 
was an Intel SDS2 motherboard (EATX), Dual Intel PIII 1.4GHz FC-PGA2-L2 
512KB, 3GB (6x512MB) 168 pin DIMM, SDRAM 133MHz/PC-133-ECC with 1x3Ware 
7006-2 and 2x3Ware 7506-4LP RAID controllers. The OS was RHEL3. 
Apparently, according to the beep codes, there has been an FRB failure.
	I've migrated most of the services 
(mail,web,proxy,samba,mysql,mailman,home directories) to an interim box 
running CentOS 5.2.
	At a minimum, I need to replace the motherboard and CPUS (I'm told they 
are unrecoverable). All the remaining hardware I plan to re-use, as well 
as moving from RHEL to CentOS.
	Does anyone have any recommendations on replacement motherboards with 
CentOS 5.2 in mind, along with the re-usable hardware requirements?

Best Regards,
Camron

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Camron W. Fox
Hilo Office
High Performance Computing Group
Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc.
E-mail:		cwfox at us.fujitsu.com

on 10-21-2008 11:18 AM Camron W. Fox spake the
following:
> Alle,
> 
>     We have recently had one of our office servers go south. The
> hardware was an Intel SDS2 motherboard (EATX), Dual Intel PIII 1.4GHz
> FC-PGA2-L2 512KB, 3GB (6x512MB) 168 pin DIMM, SDRAM 133MHz/PC-133-ECC
> with 1x3Ware 7006-2 and 2x3Ware 7506-4LP RAID controllers. The OS was
> RHEL3. Apparently, according to the beep codes, there has been an FRB
> failure.
>     I've migrated most of the services
> (mail,web,proxy,samba,mysql,mailman,home directories) to an interim box
> running CentOS 5.2.
>     At a minimum, I need to replace the motherboard and CPUS (I'm told
> they are unrecoverable). All the remaining hardware I plan to re-use, as
> well as moving from RHEL to CentOS.
>     Does anyone have any recommendations on replacement motherboards
> with CentOS 5.2 in mind, along with the re-usable hardware requirements?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Camron
> 
I have doubts that you will be able to re-use memory, unless you can find
something in old stock somewhere. No new boards use PC-133 memory that I know
of. But 3 gigs of new memory are *relatively* inexpensive. If the raid cards
are PCI, they should still be usable. The case might be usable, if you can
find EATX motherboard. IMHO a server is too critical a piece of hardware to
re-use parts unless it is a spare or secondary backup point.

By the specs, that server has probably already served for 5 years or more.
If you are willing to use refurbished parts you can look here;

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=G7ESZ-WB-R&cat=MBB

Or if your budget can go higher

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SE7501BR2-KIT-R&cat=MBB

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SE7501CW2-K2&cat=MBB




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