I spent all day yesterday at one of my clients. 'Twas a simple job. Pop some more ram in his server. 20 mins. I even wasn't sure what ram to get, so posted a query in technical about it. Ensuring I was armed with the correct information I orderd the ram, it turned up in the week, and I fitted it yesterday.
Fortunately clientco is a mate of mine, and soon to become my accountant. I fitted the ram, and it didn't firkin work. Beep beep beep, incorrect memory config please swap the ram from DIMM_1_A and DIMM_2_A to DIMM_2_A and DIMM_2_B.
Duly swapped.
Then, beep beep beep beep beep beep.......
Black screen, no post test.
Put the ram back to the original config, and take mine out.
Server does a post test. Then gives a warning about data loss and fails to boot.
I quickly figured out that the RAID controller wasn't starting (by the absence of the BIOS screen)
Then an overwhelming sense of panic set in.
Matey went to get some bacon rolls, while I nipped out for a crafty fag and gave this some thought.
What changed? I poked around inside the machine, then the raid controller stopped working. Why?
I calmly decided to reseat the raid controller, even though it is a daughter board which could not have become dislodged by gently pressing in some ram chips.
Raid controller reseated I pressed the on button with my heart in my mouth.
The frakkin thing booted first time, just as the bacon rolls arrived.
My mate knew I was worried, and I lost some face.
Moral of the story, don't buy dell servers, and if you do, don't let me anywhere near it.
HTH
Fortunately clientco is a mate of mine, and soon to become my accountant. I fitted the ram, and it didn't firkin work. Beep beep beep, incorrect memory config please swap the ram from DIMM_1_A and DIMM_2_A to DIMM_2_A and DIMM_2_B.
Duly swapped.
Then, beep beep beep beep beep beep.......
Black screen, no post test.
Put the ram back to the original config, and take mine out.
Server does a post test. Then gives a warning about data loss and fails to boot.
I quickly figured out that the RAID controller wasn't starting (by the absence of the BIOS screen)
Then an overwhelming sense of panic set in.
Matey went to get some bacon rolls, while I nipped out for a crafty fag and gave this some thought.
What changed? I poked around inside the machine, then the raid controller stopped working. Why?
I calmly decided to reseat the raid controller, even though it is a daughter board which could not have become dislodged by gently pressing in some ram chips.
Raid controller reseated I pressed the on button with my heart in my mouth.
The frakkin thing booted first time, just as the bacon rolls arrived.
My mate knew I was worried, and I lost some face.
Moral of the story, don't buy dell servers, and if you do, don't let me anywhere near it.
HTH
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