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

[SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 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

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, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: I have an old (ancient?) P4 with 30mb+40mb IDE HDs, it's just used as a cacti

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

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 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 david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed quite a drop-off in Council-Cleanup PC's, around

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Voytek
On 8 June 2014 11:19:11 am AEST, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com 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

Re: [SLUG] t/s old hardware failure

2014-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 8 June 2014 09:52, li...@sbt.net.au 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?