Questions tagged [hardware]
Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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Did I just watch my NVMe drive fail? Or possibly my motherboard?
Update: SOLVED
Seems that the drive was in fact the issue. By keeping it very cool and moving very slowly and taking breaks, I was able to recover all of its data one file at a time. Thanks all for ...
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HDD failed, but can PCB replacement fix it?
My WD RED WD80EFAX HDD suddenly died last week: I shut down my Proxmox server, booted it up again and the drive started "clicking". It was clicking for a while, until it stopped and no ...
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Do any servers support Sleep mode?
Is it possible to enable (Windows) Sleep mode on any modernish servers? Is there a specific BIOS setting I need to change to change or is it just that most servers don't support sleep mode?
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Difference between industrial motherboards and consumer motherboards
I need to upgrade a small industrial fanless PC with Thin Mini-ATX form-factor motherboard (Mitac PD10BI), as it's being a bit sluggish as a virtual kiosk.
The upgrade route I have is to get a newer ...
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Supermicro server head won't power on
We have a SuperMicro server that won't power up.
Specs:
Chassis: CSE-847BE1C-R1K28LPB
Motherboard: X10DRH-iT
Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2643v4 6 Core 3.4GHz
Memory: 128GB DDR4 (4 x 32GB )
Backplane: ...
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Many segfaults, RAM failing?
I have a Proxmox installation that is unstable, both the host and LXC containers crash. I to find the fault I have tried swapping RAM, CPU and MB. I also did a fresh reinstall. But I'm still getting ...
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Xcp-Ng VMs hardware spec recommendations [closed]
I'm upgrading host machine in order to host 20VMs on xcp-ng
Each VMs is windows server 2019, 200GB had, 32GB.
What is the best server in market and the right spec for it?
Or noob question. Is xcp-ng ...
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Understanding ipmitool output for "Power Supply" (PSU)
This Ubuntu server has two PSUs, I just ran ipmitool and it reported as follows:
# ipmitool sdr type "Power Supply"
PMBPower1 | DFh | ok | 10.0 | 624 Watts
PMBPower2 | E4h | ...
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What is purpose of backup-power-connectors on 826701-B21 (Riser Card)?
What is the purpose of the connectors marked with 2 on the HP DL380's Riser card?
Is it something for backing up power shocks on the PCI controller connected to the port?
and if it is, then where I ...
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How many SAS drives can you put on an ASUS RS720A-E11/E12-RS24U?
The ASUS RS720-E12-RS24U server comes with 24 2.5‘‘ drive bays. The specification on the ASUS web page says that only 8 of the 24 bays support SAS drives. However, according to the manual, (chapter 2....
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Why should I choose Xeon or Epic when Ryzen are way faster? [closed]
I'm selecting 2 servers to run a world-facing web application for a customer. One will host the web server, the other the DB.
I can choose between Xeon and Ryzen CPUs and.. oh, my! Xeons are way more ...
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MCE Errors but no edac-util errors?
I have an older HP Z440 tower with 4x8GB ECC DDR4, running Proxmox VE 6.4.
Recently, it started showing MCE errors every few seconds. I installed rasdaemon and can see that they are memory read errors....
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ECC DDR5: EC8 (80-bit) vs EC4 (72-bit) data integrity capabilities?
I have been looking info about ECC on DDR5 DIMMs (full ECC, non on-die ECC) and I have seen that there are two different types:
EC4, which uses 4 ECC bits per subchannel, for a total of 72 bits width
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old hardware - certified EOL OS vs. uncertified current OS [closed]
If you are a small business and have some old, non-internet-facing servers around, what are the pros and cons for dealing with the OS situation? We have an old server that is used for numerical and ...
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Windows File server heavy cpu usage - Render Farm with many clients reading data at once
I have a windows file sever with Dual Xeon E5-2650v4 cpus. They are 14 core each so 28 cores total.
The network interface is a Mellanox Connectx3 40gbs.
The disk drives in the server are 7.68TB Sata ...
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Server crashing every 14 days, no bugcheck
Every 14 days one of our Windows servers crashes. We have been trying to figure out what causes this but to no avail.
Today we noticed a pattern in the shutdowns of the server, happening every 14 days ...
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What socket(s) does the aux power for a GPU come from in a PowerEdge T550?
Server: Dell PowerEdge T550 Tower Server
PSU: Single, Hot Plug, Non-Redundant Power Supply (1+0), 1100W, Mixed Mode Titanium
GPU: NVIDIA A40
Photos: https://www.reddit.com/user/bigboyserver/comments/...
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APEI Generic Hardware Error on a linux sever on a PCI OCP
This error appears when executing a stress test on a server and already discarded the possibility of being a HW Issue(already replace OCP and entire conections to the OCP cables, boards, etc), haven't ...
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HP ML350G9 and Smart Array installation
I have a HP ML350G9, with an array controller type 440ar.
On the motherboard there are two 4xSATA-connectors, but when the 440ar is installed, it blocks those two ports.
I found this guide of how to ...
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HP BL460c Gen9 blade missing CPU
I am seeing a very strange issue on a couple of blades which show one of the missing CPUs out of two CPUs. During boot time BIOS showed two CPUs detected but when i went to BIOS [F9] i saw one CPUs ...
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R420 iDRAC7 not working when server off
I have Dell R420 with iDRAC enterprise in my home lab however I don't have a dedicated management interface, it is using one of the onboard NICs for that.
However when I shutdown the system both ...
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Tier 1 OEM Grade Memory?
We need to buy some memory for some servers. I have three quotes in total. One for memory from dell, one for Kingston memory and one for Crucial/Micron memory.
The one for crucial memory and Kingston ...
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Increase server's logical drive support
I have an HPE ProLiant DL360p Gen8 Server, with one P420i controller.
As I read in its specification, the controller's limit is 2 logical drives. What part(s) should I buy in order to increase it to 8 ...
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Memory errors in dmesg, do I need to replace a DIMM?
The following errors show up in dmesg 10-20 times per day:
MCA: Bank 5, Status 0x8c00004000010092
MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000001000c10, Status 0x0000000000000000
MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID ...
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OK to power down server every day?
If I may give a little background before my question. I'm winding down my web developmet business so have moved out of the office to WFH. I might just do some work maybe one or two days a week.
Have a ...
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HDD vs SSD for mongodb database server
I am setting up a physical server for an application that we have developed, the purpose of this server is to run the server's own software and store its database (mongodb).
On the server machine we ...
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"Hardware Error" popping up in dmesg
I am sporadically (twice in over a month) seeing worrying errors like:
[757706.327447] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[757706.327450] [Hardware Error]: Corrected error, no action ...
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CPU-Optimized or Memory-Optimized server do I need? [duplicate]
I have a crawler written in Go that I would like to move from my computer into a cloud server. Therefore I am searching for a cloud service and I see that most droplets, instances, etc... have memory ...
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partition sizing recommendations for VM with 100GB disk running docker/nomad type workloads
My understanding is from a security perspective, it's best to put things on separate partitions and use lvm groups. In doing so, how might you decide to allocate sizes for things like /var /opt, et al....
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What is the actual meaning of a "C" suffix in a 2nd generation Scalable Xeon CPU (Platinum, Gold, etc)
I have an HP Z6 Workstation with a Xeon Gold 6253CL CPU (purchased from eBay) and I would like to upgrade it to a dual-CPU configuration. I have added the 2nd CPU riser card but, for selecting the ...
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Access wireguard using hardware Authentication like yubikey
At our company we use wireguard vpn to access our cluster.
In our server, we install wireguard which will add a network interface that acts as a tunnel interface.
The access with this tunnel will be ...
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What are the consequences of RAM speed to high on a Proliant DL385 G7?
Rendering the 3D model of an optical lens or mirror with openSCAD can require huge amount of RAM, and for this use, I have maxed the RAM on a Proliant DL385 G7 but the RAMs I got were PC-14900: ...
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memtest freezes, but otherwise system works OK (Debian)
I have a Debian 11 x64 system (info below) that works OK in general, but memtest simply freezes. It's not that it shows any errors, it just stops at say 40% of the test done and becomes unreactive.
I'...
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Where Does This Little Plastic Piece go on a ThinkPad Series 3 Docking Station?
I am setting up a Thinkpad Laptop and Dock for a coworker and there was this little plastic piece that fell off the dock when we took it out of the box. Where does this go? Is it part of the laptop or ...
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Can I install DDR3L RAM in a normal DDR3 socket?
Is it possible to install DDR3L RAM in my server that uses DDR3 sockets, will it work? I just want to be sure before spending over €500 on new RAM.
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How to isolate devices on a subnetwork? [closed]
I am an electrical engineer working for a university. Our network infrastructure does not allow static IP. Only DHPC devices can be connected to the wired network.
I am responsible for an industrial ...
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How can I know how many free RAM and CPU slots are on my hpe proliant dl380 gen10 host
I need help with knowing how much free RAM and CPU slots I have on my Proliant DL380 Gen10 server. Is there any software I can deploy to the server that enables me to know what specs do I have on the ...
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Dell R815 power button does not turn off
I have powered my R815 on/off using DRAC. That works fine.
But today I had some physical maintenance, and wanted to use the power button. I can turn on the server using the button, but I cannot turn ...
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If a hard drive caused "bus errors", should its SMART attributes show problems?
The machine shows "ATA bus errors" occasionally, and has to be rebooted:
[24028.505239] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x48d0002 action 0xe frozen
[24028.505249] ata1.00: ...
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What DDR3L PC4 means ( stands for )?
I read a bit and found that DDR3L is a low voltage ram (1.3 something ) and on the most of the boards i am usually seeing DDR3L PC3.
But i stumble upon DDR3L PC4.
What this PC4 stands for?
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HPE Server Memory - Will any model be fine?
I need to upgrade our HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server with some more RAM. Before I buy anything I just wanted to confirm that it is okay to mix brands/models of memory as long as the type/frequency is ...
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How much does CPU and RAM matter for a files only sever? [duplicate]
Let's say I want to host 100000 tiny image and video files between 50kb - 2mb
It's obvious that SSD would be better than HDD because of file access speed.
But how much does CPU and RAM matter?
What ...
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Hardware errors in either CPU or RAM, what to do?
I have a server that, every now and then reports Hardware Errors to the OS, but otherwise runs without any noticeable issues.
Today I found this while walking by the monitor attached to it.
Can anyone ...
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IBM X3650 M3 occasional PCIe-related errors on reboot
Intermittently, this system will fail to POST and boot loop repeatedly (sometimes for hours) without making it past the BIOS screen. The errors appear to be PCIe related, but no additional PCIe cards ...
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Server stuck on "Intel Reference Code Execution"
Setup - Supermicro X10DRU-i+ motherboard, 2x Intel e5-2630v4:
server started rebooting at random times
had memory modules reseated and replaced, reseated CPUs
reset CMOS, updated BIOS
changed ...
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Force one drbd node to StandAlone
I need to take a box that is part of 2-node DRBD cluster offline for hardware servicing.
How do I force the primary (the other?) DRBD node to StandAlone so that I can turn the other node down?
Just ...
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What kind of slide rails do I need?
I need to install two servers from Supermicro in a 19" rack with round holes on the vertical rails. The Repon slides that came with the servers typically install in a 19" rack with square ...
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HP Proliant ml350 Gen9 don't start
I have an HP Proliant ML350 Gen9 server but it won't boot. It has two power supplies, its pilots turn green as soon as I plug in the power cable. The mother board pilot also turns green. On the front ...
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Connecting an SFP+ port to a QSFP28 switch
Background - I am working with a client trying to get a new Dell R540 server onto the client's network. They provided me with a single port on their Cisco Nexus 93240YC-FX2 Switch to connect the ...
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Why does server throw Q Code 19 only when both CPUs installed?
I've got two identical intel CPUs in an Asus board with one stick of ram each. On power up, board immediately throws code 19 ("SB initialize before installed memory"). I've tested each CPU ...
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