Great score on the free parts @barnz

 

on a side note, my PC wont boot this morning, been raining here for the past 3 days (wet season in the middle of the dry season) must be moisture in something.

and no, I wont be throwing it in the bin!!!!

Nah its broke ill take it see what I can salvage..

It's the Muslims

Fault finding:

ripped out the RAM and cleaned the contacts with solvent.  (this in itself usually works for moisture ingress)

no joy.

did same to graphics card.

still no joy, had to go to work.

 

this evening after a lot of stuffing around, removed some of the Nvidia drivers and runs just fine (maybe) 

 

here is a pic of a case fan in my server, water is visible on the bottom of the fan surround.

the CPU fan is the same

 

 

Edited July 20, 201610 yr by bloodycrashboy

So it power up, but doesn't boot?

 

Had a joystick once that Windows decided one day that it didn't like. Took me ages to narrow it down.

booted to safe mode no worries.

removed Nvidia drivers, booted to windows no worries.

downloaded new drivers, wont boot.

did same process again (removed drivers) and it booted to windoze

pissing me off

Turns out to be a driver issue with multiple monitor setup.
Nvidia website fix:
Unhook all monitors except one. Download their driver uninstaller, uninstall all Nvidia software.
Reinstall all drivers, hook up other monitors and hey presto, all good. [emoji12]
Bloody Nvidia

Looked into why my PC lost the SSD boot drive and it appears the on-board SATA controller is dying, as it's intermittently losing the BD-RW and storage drives.

 

I built this PC back in 2010, it's a Core i7-930 with 12GB's of RAM - it's one of those triple-DDR boards - and 2x Radeon HD6800's.  It's served me well over the years.

 

So looking at what's out there and as I don't really game anymore, I'm thinking of going an Intel Xeon E3-1270 V5 CPU based system.

 

I'm mainly going to be running VM's on it, I have two test lab Core-i7 Servers already but want these VM's to be separate from the test lab stuff.

 

One VM will be a security camera PC and another will be a Linux VPN box - I've never had the chance to play with Linux so it should be a good learning experience.

 

I've got a 5 bay Thecus N5500 that I'm swapping out the 2TB drives for 4TB WD Red's, as I currently have 2x 3TB LUN's one for each VMWare Server and I need more space.

 

The rest is just a network backup of my documents etc.

 

I'm not really fussed about backing up the VMWare LUN's, although looking at the current pricing of the N5550's, I'll see what I get back from Mr Taxman and might double up my NAS storage, only because with Exchange 2010, SCCM and SCOM, it might take me a few days to rebuild everything, if I encounter a Total Inability To Support Usual Production.

 

Although I'd much rather sort out bulletproofing the engine and the transmission tbh.

 

Out of all the parts I've configured for the build, the only choice I'm stuck on is video card.

Turns out to be a driver issue with multiple monitor setup.

Nvidia website fix:

Unhook all monitors except one. Download their driver uninstaller, uninstall all Nvidia software.

Reinstall all drivers, hook up other monitors and hey presto, all good. [emoji12]

Bloody Nvidia

There was a nvidia update like 2 days ago wasnt there (my xeon pc has a quadro). Roll back for now maybe?

or throw it in the bin.....at my house...

Its all good barnz, PC is healthy once again.

Makes you wonder how many "good" PC's get tossed in the bin

Edited July 21, 201610 yr by k31th
no need to quote the post directly above yours