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You Got Served

So after much ado from my last BSD post, I finally have my server up and running functionally, although it turned out to be a lot more work than envisioned. Somehow in the move, my board decided it wouldn’t POST any more (it powers but doesn’t post, hopefully a new BIOS chip can fix that and I can have this sucker go do something productive. So behold, the new motherboard pulled from a Compaq. This sucker is as ASUS board (old one was a chaintech) that runs LGA 775 (so all my machines are officially running Intel chips. Sorry AMD) and has a 3.3ghz celeron in it, which is already spinning circles around my aging 1.8ghz Sempron (socket 754 none the less).

HP lists it as a ASUS P5RC-LE, but IDK about that as the one on the site has 4 SATA ports and mine only has 2. Hmm. Well no matter, I can always throw more SATA cards in there. Better than the 0 the old board had. And the built in ATI Radeon Xpress 200 graphics are nice, yay for no more extra video cards in a server.

It’s also stacked with 5 HDs now, a 160g for random data, a 300g for music, a 250g for documents, and a 320g for pictures. System disk is a 40g WD that is more than enough for this, drive is 11$ full, if that. So I should be set on space for a bit.

In true style, I like to have things looking good too. So here’s some pics from under the hood, check all of them out in the photos section.

Standard picture:

And now, we turn on the UV lights!

All my lovely hard drives

Some of my fans

Cords and Such

And case closed

There are 2 UV lights mounted inside that run along the bottom of the case and up the back panel. Combined with the fans and the UV-encoded molex power cords it looks pretty awesome and runs great (now that I made a custom kernel config and re-compiled the sucker it’s awesometastical). And a gig of RAM is more than enough to keep it going soundly, so I think I’m done messing with it for now. Viva!