Building a Sossaman rig?

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07-02-2009, 08:07 AM
Sparky

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Originally Posted by Bail_w

Did you use floppy or usb method?

I actually have a few floppy drives and disks lying around still so I just did that.

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Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

Ok my Sammy(s) build has been forever in the waiting-life has its bumps sometimes. anyways I am setting up the board, drive and PSU on a nice clean shelf so I am going caseless. After doing some reading which metal prongs at the bottom of the board i am supposed to touch together with say, a screwdriver, to jumpstart the board? I tried last night a few times had the lights on the board once I had it plugged in; but the lights seemed to flicker on and off. Now I figure i am doing this all wrong:(. Also I am going to setup another board and all the components just to make sure it is not any of the parts.
Just to double check I have a bunch of 2gb and 1gb for all my boards-if for now I am only placing 2 of each( of course just the same number;)) which slots would they go in?
Thanks guys

Here this pic should help, I went poking around on the board with switches and LEDs :D

http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g2...O/sampanel.jpg

According to the manual for this board, you fill from top down. So I'd put two 2GB in the first two slots and the next two slots put the 1GB.
07-02-2009, 10:05 AM
Sparky

What's up with the onboard video on these things?

I just installed XP on sammy 2 using onboard, but now when it tries to boot it goes to "out of range" on my LCD. I tried an older CRT, same deal! What's up with this?
07-02-2009, 10:11 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

What's up with the onboard video on these things?

I just installed XP on sammy 2 using onboard, but now when it tries to boot it goes to "out of range" on my LCD. I tried an older CRT, same deal! What's up with this?

That's weird, I have had mine connected to both CRT and a Dell LCD with the onboard vid..
I use 1024x768 res..
07-02-2009, 10:18 AM
Sparky

Both phases of windows install went fine, I could see everything.

Now it POSTs (can see that) goes to the XP loading screen (can see that) then it goes out of range with vertical refresh rate at 58Hz. Goofy... :confused:

Worked ok under server 2008 but I only have 1 license for that.
07-02-2009, 10:29 AM
Sparky

I got it working. I used my laptop to compare keystrokes, and was able to go into the display properties > advanced settings > monitor tab and change the refresh rate without seeing what I was doing :p:

Had 3 options in the list - 58Hz, 60Hz, and 66Hz :wth: Thankfully my LCD could deal with 66Hz as I had selected that by accident. Set it to 60Hz and now things look normal, and the refresh rate list now has the typical 60Hz, 70Hz, 75Hz listed :rolleyes:
07-02-2009, 10:31 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

I got it working. I used my laptop to compare keystrokes, and was able to go into the display properties > advanced settings > monitor tab and change the refresh rate without seeing what I was doing :p:

Had 3 options in the list - 58Hz, 60Hz, and 66Hz :wth: Thankfully my LCD could deal with 66Hz as I had selected that by accident. Set it to 60Hz and now things look normal, and the refresh rate list now has the typical 60Hz, 70Hz, 75Hz listed :rolleyes:

yea Sparky! :cheer:
07-02-2009, 10:44 AM
Bail_w

This is weird... I connects the onboard video to my 2405fpw with a vga cable and never have any problems with it.
07-02-2009, 11:04 AM
Sparky

I'm guessing it was just XP's goofy default driver for the onboard video of this board.
07-02-2009, 11:11 AM
CaptMorgan

Those 2 power "prongs" worked on the other board I put together,Thanks. I will take the other board apart and resemble it, might of done something wrong along the way!
07-02-2009, 11:13 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

Those 2 power "prongs" worked on the other board I put together,Thanks. I will take the other board apart and resemble it, might of done something wrong along the way!

go to intels site and grab the manual..
This is a funky board and you will want that manual plus all the new drivers,etc..
07-02-2009, 11:15 AM
Sparky

Oh something I discovered about the 8 pin CPU power... a 4 pin works fine on it (that's all I have). Just center the 4 pin on the 8 pin (make sure you got the latch on the correct side), and shove it in :D Yeah it fits tight because you are sticking a "square peg in a round hole" so to speak but it works, and these CPUs pull so little power that only one 12V per CPU is fine. The wires and plug don't get even slightly warm.
07-02-2009, 11:20 AM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Oh something I discovered about the 8 pin CPU power... a 4 pin works fine on it (that's all I have). Just center the 4 pin on the 8 pin (make sure you got the latch on the correct side), and shove it in :D Yeah it fits tight because you are sticking a "square peg in a round hole" so to speak but it works, and these CPUs pull so little power that only one 12V per CPU is fine. The wires and plug don't get even slightly warm.

I wouldn't do that.. Get a 4 to 8 pin adapter from PPPC's for under $10.00..:D
07-02-2009, 12:40 PM
Sparky

I may consider doing that, but it results in basically the same thing anyway (all the power through the 4 pin).

As of right now I have sammy 2 up and running! I am totaling 16 cores crunching :D That's nothing compared to some here but considering I went from 8 rigs to 4 and have more (and faster) cores running I think it is pretty good :up:

Now to rig something up a little more permanent for sammy 1 and 2 to fit in instead of sitting on boxes sitting on the desk and floor :rofl:
07-02-2009, 01:20 PM
Bail_w

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

Now to rig something up a little more permanent for sammy 1 and 2 to fit in instead of sitting on boxes sitting on the desk and floor :rofl:

They are fine. :D
07-02-2009, 02:08 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by SparkyJJO

I may consider doing that, but it results in basically the same thing anyway (all the power through the 4 pin).

As of right now I have sammy 2 up and running! I am totaling 16 cores crunching :D That's nothing compared to some here but considering I went from 8 rigs to 4 and have more (and faster) cores running I think it is pretty good :up:

Now to rig something up a little more permanent for sammy 1 and 2 to fit in instead of sitting on boxes sitting on the desk and floor :rofl:

you know I don't like rackmounts but Sammy is the exception to me..The question is would you need a @U or 3U to get by the HS and fan height..
They did put these in 1U's with those super lound little 40x56mm fans but that would drive you nuts..
maybe the cheapest way out is just a 2ft or 4ft wide shelving unit and lay them in place on cardboard..
07-02-2009, 02:21 PM
Sparky

Yeah that's what I'm figuring. A cardboard thing of some sort.

Eventually I want to have a rack, with 4U cases (can take standard PSUs that way, with standard PCIe cards), and stick all crunchers in the rack. Have the bottom half full of 4U cases with quads (or better), top half with KB, mouse, LCD, and radiators, and have the whole thing watercooled. That's my dream anyway :D
07-02-2009, 02:32 PM
CaptMorgan

dreams...I bought a shelf at home depot i will put all of them on there, cost i think 90 bucks not bad:)
07-02-2009, 08:40 PM
Bail_w

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Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

dreams...I bought a shelf at home depot i will put all of them on there, cost i think 90 bucks not bad:)

remember to post a picture of them in that shelf. :D
07-03-2009, 03:12 AM
tiro_uspsss

http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=94815
07-06-2009, 07:02 PM
Bail_w

Have couple pairs of 2.0ghz SL9HN sammy for sale again. Let me know if anyone are interested.
07-06-2009, 10:44 PM
CaptMorgan

Well what an educational world ubuntu is i will post my adventures in that area also-found a tempt monitoring program that did and didn't work:cool::shakes:
but alas my first sammy i running @ 28c, not too bad. It's late but i will have some pics soon-electrician is coming next week to setup some power in the basement area for Sossaman City:yepp:
07-06-2009, 11:08 PM
PoppaGeek

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Originally Posted by CaptMorgan

Well what an educational world ubuntu is i will post my adventures in that area also-found a tempt monitoring program that did and didn't work:cool::shakes:
but alas my first sammy i running @ 28c, not too bad. It's late but i will have some pics soon-electrician is coming next week to setup some power in the basement area for Sossaman City:yepp:

Looking forward to some hardware p0rn! ;)
07-07-2009, 11:42 PM
Bail_w

Oh ya, i found a 2.16ghz SL9HM sossaman but i need another one though. :D
07-07-2009, 11:44 PM
Movieman

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Originally Posted by Bail_w

Oh ya, i found a 2.16ghz SL9HM sossaman but i need another one though. :D

No way in hell..:eek: Where?
Was it here?..:)
http://www.upgradebay.net/sl9hm.html
07-07-2009, 11:46 PM
Bail_w

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Originally Posted by Movieman

No way in hell..:eek: Where?

I got it off ebay but its only one though :(

Edit: Here is a screenshot

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...untitled-8.jpg

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