Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-08 Thread Jake Anderson
On 07/06/14 16:44, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a cacti server, has been in use as is for several years, no screen, no kbd, last power down was about 1 year ago today I noticed it's down, as there is no screen no keybd, I just hit

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 June 2014 09:52, wrote: > >> I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a > > must wait for next council cleanup so can pick up something more modern, I > think > If your reasons are economical then have you looked at how much power this server cost you? Perhaps a

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Voytek
On 8 June 2014 11:19:11 am AEST, David Lyon wrote: >And you might follow these old-timers: >www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371 > Thanks... (drive past that place sometimes, never realized there is such a treasure cove hidde

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread David Lyon
And you might follow these old-timers: www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-Lot-of-9-Windows-Desktop-PC-Workstations-HP-Compaq-Dell-Intel-AMD-/231246144371 On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 11:00 AM, David Lyon wrote: > I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. > > Not say don't live

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread David Lyon
I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around here anyway. Not say don't live-in-hope in finding a new friend, just that the days of all the PC's spending time together on the nature strip breathing the fresh air seems to have passed. It's a new generation being thrown out now. :-)

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread lists
On Sat, June 7, 2014 7:58 pm, Amos Shapira wrote: > I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust > accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but > don't have much hope. Amos, thanks fwiw, to be more precise, first couple of reboots stopped a

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
I'd suspect environmental issues like temp, power brown/black out, dust accumulation. Lacking any more specifics I'd grep the logs for errors, but don't have much hope. On 7 Jun 2014 16:44, wrote: > I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a > cacti server, has been i

[SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-06 Thread lists
I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a cacti server, has been in use as is for several years, no screen, no kbd, last power down was about 1 year ago today I noticed it's down, as there is no screen no keybd, I just hit reset, but, it didn't come up once the scree