Building a Sossaman rig?

[emuexport]

I think I read about a hot stanley knife tip?!?!

[tiro_uspsss]

I think I read about a hot stanley knife tip?!?!

did it! it worked well v.card is now physically installed.. no idea if it works tho gotta wait for the rest of the parts

[artemm]

did it! it worked well v.card is now physically installed.. no idea if it works tho gotta wait for the rest of the parts

brutal reviews, lol.

[Bail_w]

Yep, i cutted the PCE x8 slot, and it work perfectly.

[NaeKuh]

How long has it been up?

considering that its dave's first pair he had..

i think she's the oldest on this forum...

She even outdates this post thread even.

Dont get me wrong.. she still runs fine... i just need more power.
Lack of 64 bit, and more expansion slots is whats the main limiting factor on sammy.

My plans are to probably donate sammy or migrate her down to someone.
Lind will take all of sammy's drives.. 6 + another Nas i had 5.
I plan on finally using my ARC-1680ix controller which has been sitting for about a year gathering dust.
(learned you dont mess with OVERCLOCK while on a SAS controller, or face drive spin load up time for each BSOD's).

So Lind a 3.070 dual gainestown system will be born on top of sammy's ashes to replace her perminently.
If i need something more then 16 threads.. i think i'll shoot myself.. im having a hard enough time filling up 12 on Nadeshiko besides Boinc..

Oh wait.. ignore that last line.. u guys arent suposed to know that..

[s0lid]

^and i've always wanted a sammy

[artemm]

I plan on finally using my ARC-1680ix controller which has been sitting for about a year gathering dust.
(learned you dont mess with OVERCLOCK while on a SAS controller, or face drive spin load up time for each BSOD's).

I hear ya. That was the bane of my existence when overclocking my last rig. After the first night the "Booting the controller kernel... / | \ - / | \ - / | \ - /" message was permanently burned into my mind.

Second night I just took the damn thing out of the slot and cut power to the drives and used a simple sata drive with a clean installed OS... it's the only way to go.

[Bail_w]

need ram? Here

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a0238c3bb

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a023e97c9

[tiro_uspsss]

need ram? Here

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a0238c3bb

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a023e97c9

man! thats the perfect price but I dont have the cash till another 2 weeks

[Martijn]

need ram? Here

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a0238c3bb

http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-2GB-2-x-1GB-...item2a023e97c9

Thanks, I needed that

EDIT: Never mind, shipping is WAY too expensive if you're out of the US.

[tiro_uspsss]

Thanks, I needed that

EDIT: Never mind, shipping is WAY too expensive if you're out of the US.

how much RAM were u looking @ getting?

[Bail_w]

Thanks, I needed that

EDIT: Never mind, shipping is WAY too expensive if you're out of the US.

Ask Movieman to buy it then ship it to you

[tiro_uspsss]

how much do the HSs weigh? (preferably in grams please!)

[Bail_w]

both heatsinks? i say about 400 grams?

[tiro_uspsss]

both heatsinks? i say about 400 grams?

mm, ok.. so about 200grams per CPU HS

[emuexport]

Hmmmm....

Not sure whats going on here. Well I got my Sossaman and I've installed it all but no boot/post anything.

I have a 450W Corsair PSU with an 8 pin eps connection. DDR2-400 and 2x2GHz Sossas.

I plug in the power and there are lights on the board after the staus lights go blue then green and the 2 CPU lights stay orange. The light near the EPS plug is also green. any ideas? What have I missed?

I'm following the layout from page 123 of the manual to connect a normal start switch. But no go?

[tiro_uspsss]

Hmmmm....

Not sure whats going on here. Well I got my Sossaman and I've installed it all but no boot/post anything.

I have a 450W Corsair PSU with an 8 pin eps connection. DDR2-400 and 2x2GHz Sossas.

I plug in the power and there are lights on the board after the staus lights go blue then green and the 2 CPU lights stay orange. The light near the EPS plug is also green. any ideas? What have I missed?

I'm following the layout from page 123 of the manual to connect a normal start switch. But no go?

the RAM is ECC+REG right?

[emuexport]

Yes siree bob.

I'm confused cos the fans dont even spin.

[JAWS]

Yes siree bob.

I'm confused cos the fans dont even spin.

just checking here....did you flash with the latest bios?

[emuexport]

Not yet I cant even get it to post to the bios. Basically the motherboard doesnt boot-up yet.

I'm assuming you need the motherboard running to flash the latest bios.

[Sparky]

It should still boot with the older bios and those CPUs, just throw weird bios errors. That's how mine behaved.

[rcofell]

What do the POST LEDs show? They're the ones between the ethernet and video/com ports (per page 5 of the manual).

[tiro_uspsss]

What do the POST LEDs show? They're the ones between the ethernet and video/com ports (per page 5 of the manual).

I swear if he has the same LEDs light up like mine, then it wasnt/isnt my mod that 'killed' the mobo

[NaeKuh]

Did u ever finish your mod?

[tiro_uspsss]

Did u ever finish your mod?

na - sorta - gonna work on it some more soon