My Server R.I.P.

Well, it finally bit the dust. I looked over at the box tonight and saw the activity light on but couldnt figure out why. I bring up the video and see a BSOD.

I reboot.. or at least try to but no luck... she's gone. I knew it was going to happen soon (and built myself a new rig out of an Antec Aria case) and will use my old main rig as the PDC.

Hopefully since the chipsets are the same (Nforce2) I can get away with just moving my drives over and keeping the domain intact. If not, maybe I can get booted up enough to reinstall the OS over the top.

This bites.

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RussS

Oh durn

Hey Johan - where the funeral procession emoticon?

garv221

Godbless.

janmike

Please accept my deepest condolences.

Drakonblayde

lazyart wrote:

I reboot.. or at least try to but no luck... she's gone. I knew it was going to happen soon (and built myself a new rig out of an Antec Aria case) and will use my old main rig as the PDC.

Hopefully since the chipsets are the same (Nforce2) I can get away with just moving my drives over and keeping the domain intact. If not, maybe I can get booted up enough to reinstall the OS over the top.

Since it's the same chipset, it probably will boot and not give you the dreaded INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE blue screen that you normally see when you move drives, is it the same processor too (or somewhat close)? This is one of my complaints with the entire 2k/xp/2k3 line.... changing your HAL should *not* invalidate your ability to boot /grumble

Ricka182

That sucks.....

lazyart

It was an Epox Nforce2 board, moving to an MSI Nforce2. I moved the 4 hard drives over only. The CPU is now a 1700+ vs. the 2400+ from before. Two of the drives are connected to a RAID card.

The server booted up just fine. Two issues I had:

The NIC wouldn't initialize. I eventually realized that it was looking for an IP address from 192.168.0.200, which was assigned to the onboard NIC from the old box. Once I assigned the new NIC that address the network was happy.

My RAID array showed up with the RAW filesystem. The files were still there however. I researched it a bit then decided to run a scandisk to fix filesystem errors. 10 seconds later it was NTFS all over again.

I was veeeery lucky.

Drakonblayde

Yeah you were, you kept the chipset the same so the it wasn't going to complain about the drive controller being different. Good save.