Questions tagged [hardware]
Computer hardware is the collection of physical elements that comprise a computer system.
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Testing software on lots of PCI cards
I am developing software that needs to work across the largest possible array of PCI adapter cards. Consider PCI ethernet cards. I can collect dozens of different cards, and I have a Windows XP ...
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Power on fan at timed interval
We are setting up a small 9U server cabinet in our office to house a single server along with a switch, UPS and some other miscellaneous components.
When the two fans are powered on at the top of the ...
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Replacement motherboard for an old intel rack chassis
not sure if hardware questions are the go on here or not, but here goes anyway.
I have just picked up an old intel SC5200 rack chassis with an intel SE750CW2 motherboard and dual Xeon processors. It ...
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RAID hard drive configurations
I'm building a linux traffic shaping routing box for a leased line connection. This box has to be reliable, so I'm planning on installing the operating system and data files on a RAID 1 configuration. ...
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Physically Identify the failed hard drive
So, let's say your server had 6 healthy hard drives. A drive fails (will not mount/detect, drops out of raid with errors) or is failing (SMART getting worse, etc). You need to swap out the bad drive....
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Building a backup server
One of my older motherboards broke and I'm planning to use the remaining power supply, hard drive and case to build a backup server. I want to buy a new motherboard and CPU that can be used 24x7 and ...
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Will RAM designed for Core i7 boards work with an LGA 775 board?
I'm looking at possibly buying this motherboard for use in a temporary "budget server": http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186144
I want to know if the memory that says it's "...
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Can a motherboard that supports multiple CPUs run with fewer CPUs than it supports?
I'm looking at building out a pretty beefy server, and I was wondering if I were to get a motherboard that supports multiple CPUs such as this one, can it run with only one or two CPUs temporarily?
I'...
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Best practices for recording hardware faults
In an environment of a couple of hundred of PCs and maybe 10-20 servers, what are the methods that are used to keep track of hardware failures and fixes either under warranty or otherwise?
My ...
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hardware spec for vmware server [closed]
I'm considering buying a server for my home network to run vmware server, I use a number of virtuals for testing and web development (sharepoint, ie 6, 32bit windows, linux etc) and running ...
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harware spec for vmware server [duplicate]
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hardware spec for vmware server
I'm considering buying a server for my home network to run vmware server, I use a number of virtuals for testing and web development (...
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Do I need a server motherboard to properly run Windows Server 2008?
I have been struggling to decide whether to buy a server or desktop motherboard for my home business server.
My main concern is stability, compatibility, easy to setup and care very little about ...
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Testing faulty on-board raid card
One one of our file servers I keep getting delay write failures to the OS disk array. Its built on a Raid1 array using an on-board raid card.
So far I've verified both harddisks are ok by pulling ...
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Moving a RAID array from one machine to another
I'm not too familiar with RAID arrays, but I plan on making a RAID 5 array for a fileserver. However, once I get the RAID running for a while, I have plans to move it to another machine (with ...
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Power on machine when there is power?
Is there a solution for powering a machine back on after power loss once the power is back on? I could use wake-on-lan, but if there is a solution (software or hardware) to automatically power-up once ...
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Is it mandatory to have my own server? [closed]
I wonder what are the benefits of having my own hardware hosting my website, and when exactly do I have to own my own server and the costs of that.
For example from an average user who is running a ...
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Can anyone suggest best SSL VPN Gateway (Clientless 10 users) [closed]
Can anyone suggest best SSL VPN Gateway (Clientless 10 users)
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Can a (hw) loadbalancer check on HTTP status codes?
We're currently developing several websites using 2 web front-end servers (using apache and tomcat/jboss) with a loadbalancer in front of them. Since I'm a programmer, not a sysadmin, I can only guess ...
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Replacing a single controller domain with new hardware
So I have a small domain with a single controller running server 2k3. I want to replace the domain controller with new hardware. Is it possible to simply build a new domain with the exact same ...
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Leatherman tool for administrators? [closed]
I have only been able to find threads about software tools on this subject.
Is there any multi-purpose tool out there for it-administrators? I am thinking of something like a leatherman tool - ...
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Low-budget, value-for-money, NAS unit with NFS support [closed]
I'm looking to buy a NAS unit for file storage on my network. It doesn't need to be massively fast, but high stability for a low price point is the ideal.
I have a maximum budget of about AUD$1000, ...
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What are the Benefits of Server Hardware? [closed]
What are the benefits of using Server Hardware versus just placing server software on top of Desktop Hardware?
I've been running a small time webserver for a couple of websites, a blog and a multi-...
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Power supply reliability
Is a larger-capacity power supply likely to live longer than a lower-capacity supply, even if they both have plenty of capacity for the system they're on?
For example, say I have a system where the ...
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Hardware recommendation for a web 2.0 site using drupal [closed]
We are working in a new website (a typical web 2.0 website). We are going to
use drupal and mysql. We expect to have an estimated traffic of 2000 users per day (perhaps 200 - 300 new users per day).
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Windows Server 2000 hardware question
I’m the resident IT Guru for a Non-Profit and we have an Exchange server that has issues and I’m wide open to any suggestions.
The server is an older DELL PowerEdge 1400 with 1GHz Processor, 512MB ...
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Hard freezes and reboots when compiling
One of our workstations has begun to freeze or reset under some circunstances. We can reproduce this in both Linux and Windows so it's most likely a hardware issue.
The freezes most usually happen ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Maximum Processor Limit Confusion
As I was looking through the Windows Server 2008 R2 specifications, I saw that the maximum supported processors is 64 sockets for Datacenter addition. This puts the maximum number or cores at 256 (if ...
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Windows 2003 x64 Server as Workstation [closed]
I need to buy a box to be used as a development workstation and install windows 2003 x64 server on it. I will be using VS2008, SQL and similar tools on it. I bought a box from HP (HP Compaq dc7900) ...
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server is beeping
Walking by the server closet I noticed that one of our servers (namely the one that hosts the company software/data) is beeping: low-high repeat. As soon as it started, I backed up all of the data ...
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Hardware to remotely reset a server which doesn't have a built in IPMI module?
I work for a hosting company, where we offer colocation services.
Since we offer colocation for client hardware which we don't own, a lot of the client devices don't have an IPMI module to allow ...
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Replacement Switch Suggestion [closed]
We're in the process of upgrading one of our racks from 100MB to 1GB. We currently have a 48 port unmanaged 100MB switch (3Com Baseline Switch 2250). Can anyone recommend a 48 port 1GB switch ideally ...
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Upgrading mobo and CPU without reinstall (Ubuntu)
I have a workstation with Ubuntu 9.04 running on it. I am looking to upgrade it to another cpu/motherboard. What should I expect after I boot it up after upgrade? Will full reinstall be required?
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Where can I buy Server Type Motherboards with more than 2 Processor Sockets? [closed]
I'm looking for server type motherboards that have more than 2 processor sockets.
Where can I find these types of boards?
Edit - Prefer Intel Xeon based if possible, however, AMD Opteron is ok too.
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Windows 2008 R2 - BlueTooth support?
Does Windows 2008 R2 have BlueTooth support? I know with some persuasion you could get 2008 to support it, but it was always ropey.
I'm going to use it as a development OS, but have BT keyboard and ...
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Which set of hardware is better?
I have two quotes from hosting providers for a web/db setup, which one is offering me better hardware? (I know there is a lot of other things to consider besides hardware, I just don't know enough to ...
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How far should we take the N+N redundancy craziness?
The industry standard when it comes from redundancy is quite high, to say the least. To illustrate my point, here is my current setup (I'm running a financial service).
Each server has a RAID array ...
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DDR3 vs DDR2 for numerical compute machine?
If you were speccing a deskside compute box (something like a quadcore XEON or Opteron and a bunch of RAM) to run code that is not highly memory bandwidth dependent, would you worry very much about it ...
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gigabit network card comparison
I'm shopping a dell machine and wanted to know what the experts thought about the value aded by getting an upgraded NIC. I've got cat6 throughout network and gigabit routers.
On-Board Single Gigabit ...
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How do data recovery firms recover data from a "dead" hard disk?
The hard drive in my laptop just died, and it's been about a week since I ran a full backup.
I know there are companies that specialize in data recovery from dead hard disks. I'm curious how they do ...
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processor - dual core or quad core for ad/ss
I'm looking at getting a few additional servers. Can someone enlighten me as to which I should prefer based on the following uses?
Active Directory/DNS Server (<50 users):
Dual Core Intel® Xeon® ...
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Cleaning Coffee from Hardware in Labs and Workstations
We had someone come into a lab with their usual need for coffee and you can guess the rest. I was wondering what you have for instructions for your techs as working best for cleaning dried vanilla ...
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GE NetPRO UPS monitoring software available for Windows Server 2008?
We've replaced our old file server with a new one running Windows Server 2008. The UPS we used for the old server is a GE NetPro 1500VA unit. It came with JUMP DataShield monitoring software, which ...
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Sun X4170 squealing after disk eject. How do I fix this?
I just ejected one of the "hot swappable" hard drives from a Sun X4170 running RAID 10 and it is making quite a loud noise. It's like a system beep that's one long continuous note.
I'm wondering what ...
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Having a hardware problem with USB & Keyboard on machine, need some ideas?
I would have posted this on superuser but I can't get into it since it is still in private beta.
I have a Dell sc400 at a remote location running SBS 2003 that is having some issues. The usb ports ...
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Poor internal database - replace it or chuck hardware at it?
So - we have an internal company database, the usual kind of stuff: manages clients, phone calls, sales deals and client agreements/schemes.
It's an Access 2000 front-end, and an SQL Server 2000 ...
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Specialized Mounting Brackets
We are currently upgrading our tower based build server to a new 19" rack mounted unit for our software development team.
Our new rack server has a maximum depth of 22 inches. So to accommodate this, ...
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What is the root cause of a Hard Drive "ticking" sound after 15 min of being on?
In my office there is a laptop dell inspiron 1420 with HD of 100GB of space. The computer is about a year old, and the hard drive has a weird and annoying ticking sound. The ticking sound starts ...
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What causes hard disk failures?
What causes hard disk failures in general. I would like to know the common causes and how to prevent such incidence.
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Is there any reason I shouldn't use a "workstation" as a server?
I've been looking to buy a tower-style server for our small office's network. It will be running installing Windows 2008 SBS, and its main functions will be Exchange, VPN, file sharing, and printer ...
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How many domains can you configure on a Sun M5000 system?
We have a few Sun M5000 servers with the following configuration:
Each system has 2 system boards each containing 2 x 2.5Ghz quad core processors
Each system board has 16GB of RAM
Each system has 4 x ...