Last week while I was taking out the trash, I found a beige box with a 1.7ghz AthlonXP and a 40gb drive in the dumpster. It had a fresh install of XP on it, and it's pretty quick. Faster than my old (main) PC, which was a measly 450mhz P3.
Later that day, I got a call from my dad who has been working at a waterpark, supervising construction... apparently their offices decided to upgrade and toss out a whole bunch of stuff that was in storage. Today he arrived at my apartment with 13 more PCs.
There are 4 older models, I think Pentium 1 or 486. They have ISA slots.
6 of the machines are Pentium 2 or 3... a few PCI graphics, sound, and ethernet cards in them.
1 is definitely a PIII with an AGP graphics card.
The last machine is an IBM xServer 220!
I have wanted a server forever and ever, especially one with dual processors and hot-swappable SCSI.
Only one processor is currently installed. It's a 1.4ghz PIII. I'm definitely going to get a second one. It has 3 hot swappable SCSI bays and one of them is populated by a 10,000rpm, 38gb drive. From what I can gather, it will handle up to 4gb of ram... it has 512mb of ECC installed currently.
Unfortunately, I have probably never even touched a server in my life, and I really know nothing about them. I powered it on and Windows server 2000 came up, but it's password protected. Apparently it's possible to find a way around that? I'm still looking into it.
I have some questions, if any of you would be so kind to help me out a bit...
First... if I add a second processor, do I have to match the speed of the currently installed one, or can I use a different speed? The current processor is a 1.4ghz Tualatin pentium socket 370. I happen to have a 1.3ghz tualatin celeron socket 370 available... would it be possible to use that?
Second... it's currently populated by PC133 ECC ram. Is ECC necessary? Will the smoke escape if I put non-ECC PC133 in there? Do I have to match the pairs?
Third... Can I use this thing for gaming if I drop a video card in it, or are they just made to serve files?
Fourth... there are these weird vertical cards near the processors that have a bunch of capacitors on them... it seems like there is one for each processor. What in the world are they?
Finally... do I have to run a sever-specific version of Windows on this machine? Can I install XP or Vista on it?
I apologize if any of this sounds dumb, but like I said, this is my first adventure in the world of servers.
Later that day, I got a call from my dad who has been working at a waterpark, supervising construction... apparently their offices decided to upgrade and toss out a whole bunch of stuff that was in storage. Today he arrived at my apartment with 13 more PCs.
There are 4 older models, I think Pentium 1 or 486. They have ISA slots.
6 of the machines are Pentium 2 or 3... a few PCI graphics, sound, and ethernet cards in them.
1 is definitely a PIII with an AGP graphics card.
The last machine is an IBM xServer 220!
I have wanted a server forever and ever, especially one with dual processors and hot-swappable SCSI.
Only one processor is currently installed. It's a 1.4ghz PIII. I'm definitely going to get a second one. It has 3 hot swappable SCSI bays and one of them is populated by a 10,000rpm, 38gb drive. From what I can gather, it will handle up to 4gb of ram... it has 512mb of ECC installed currently.
Unfortunately, I have probably never even touched a server in my life, and I really know nothing about them. I powered it on and Windows server 2000 came up, but it's password protected. Apparently it's possible to find a way around that? I'm still looking into it.
I have some questions, if any of you would be so kind to help me out a bit...
First... if I add a second processor, do I have to match the speed of the currently installed one, or can I use a different speed? The current processor is a 1.4ghz Tualatin pentium socket 370. I happen to have a 1.3ghz tualatin celeron socket 370 available... would it be possible to use that?
Second... it's currently populated by PC133 ECC ram. Is ECC necessary? Will the smoke escape if I put non-ECC PC133 in there? Do I have to match the pairs?
Third... Can I use this thing for gaming if I drop a video card in it, or are they just made to serve files?
Fourth... there are these weird vertical cards near the processors that have a bunch of capacitors on them... it seems like there is one for each processor. What in the world are they?
Finally... do I have to run a sever-specific version of Windows on this machine? Can I install XP or Vista on it?
I apologize if any of this sounds dumb, but like I said, this is my first adventure in the world of servers.