Welp, can't sleep tonight as you can probably tell, and do not have to work until the evening, so I decided to stop procrastinating and remove the 2.0DP from my office as it was taking up legroom under the desk.... and now it looks like this.
I've been of two minds as to what I would do with this machine for a while after it became unreliable I had intended to stuff it in a corner for another day, but whilst I had the case cracked open I decided to barebones it so I can scavenge a part if needed without having to dig the machine out. as it stands I may need to use the DVD-RW in my DC as it sounds pretty sick and is starting to burn errors at speeds above 20x, and I may also extend the fan wiring by a couple of inches and replace the noisy front PCI fan in the 2.0DC with his nice quiet one.
As for the rest of the machine, it's fate is as yet undecided... Part of me says there is no reason to not attempt a reflow, because realistically its a free fix if it works. But that being said, the effort to remove the board and CPU's, and reassemble again, all hopefully without breaking anything, is a pretty substantial. And the reality is simply that these dual-CPU PCI-X G5's are rubbish... the failure rates when still brand new and under warranty were appalling, and encompassed most major components. Logic boards, CPU's, PSU... you name it, chances are it was gonna break. Even if I do get it to play nice again, chances are it's to be considered borrowed time as pre-PCIe dual-processor G5's just suck. I really don't know if its worth the time or effort.
I've been of two minds as to what I would do with this machine for a while after it became unreliable I had intended to stuff it in a corner for another day, but whilst I had the case cracked open I decided to barebones it so I can scavenge a part if needed without having to dig the machine out. as it stands I may need to use the DVD-RW in my DC as it sounds pretty sick and is starting to burn errors at speeds above 20x, and I may also extend the fan wiring by a couple of inches and replace the noisy front PCI fan in the 2.0DC with his nice quiet one.
As for the rest of the machine, it's fate is as yet undecided... Part of me says there is no reason to not attempt a reflow, because realistically its a free fix if it works. But that being said, the effort to remove the board and CPU's, and reassemble again, all hopefully without breaking anything, is a pretty substantial. And the reality is simply that these dual-CPU PCI-X G5's are rubbish... the failure rates when still brand new and under warranty were appalling, and encompassed most major components. Logic boards, CPU's, PSU... you name it, chances are it was gonna break. Even if I do get it to play nice again, chances are it's to be considered borrowed time as pre-PCIe dual-processor G5's just suck. I really don't know if its worth the time or effort.