Dell T5500 fail

[Wiz]

So I was running 16 seti processes on this T5500 and one day I found it dead.
After a few minutes I found the secondary cpu was at fault.
Plug the module in, dead box. Unplug the module, up & running with 8 processes.
Now I'm thinking the thing just doesn't have what it takes to do DC 24/7/365.

Shame, it was really a great producer.
Weak a$$ Dell.

 

[petrusbroder]

So sad.

 

[dajeepster]

i have a couple SC1430 and they've been great. Love that they came with an 850W PSU.

 

[Wiz]

Well maybe I just got a dud.
Still 100% under warranty so maybe after it's all fixed we will try again.

 

[Assimilator1]

What temps were the CPUs running at?

Btw 16 processes!! that must of been 1 awesome cruncher!
Is it 2.66 GHz?

 

[Wiz]

Just 2.26 ghz (x16)

36 GB memory...

Thinking of maybe running a different project on it, suggestions for something less likely to kill the machine??

 

[Assimilator1]

So what temps were they running at then?

Maybe 'just' 2.26 GHz but it's still a helluva lot of crunching power , what output were you getting?

 

[Wiz]

This one here:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_host_detail.php?hostid=4986946

While running it was getting about 12K RAC.

 

[Assimilator1]

Awesome!

So are you gonna answer my question(x2) about temps?

 

[Wiz]

So are you gonna my question(x2) about temps?

A: Unknown

Of course not overclocked in any way, just running with all cooling as installed by Dell.

It was a very packed box though, several hard drives and well I'm sure you've seen a Dell box before. HUGE PSU in this one.

 

[Assimilator1]

Errr, I never asked if it was o/ced , x2 was same question twice . Never mind anyway. I see I typo'ed, doh!

Sounds like a recipe for trouble if it's really packed, are you still running it with 1 CPU? If so what temp is that running at?
Oh & if it helps DPAD runs cooler than the optimised SETI apps, although you'd need to install 2 clients as it doesn't appear to scale very well beyond 8 threads.

 

[PCTC2]

Just 2.26 ghz (x16)

36 GB memory...

Thinking of maybe running a different project on it, suggestions for something less likely to kill the machine??

Sounds like the Xeon E5520. Great chip (see my sig).
36GB of RAM... I'm a little jealous. I could only afford 12 2GB sticks.
I still haven't run DC on it. I'll run F@H on it eventually.

It sucks that it kicked the bucket. Good thing for warranties.

 

[biodoc]

So I was running 16 seti processes on this T5500 and one day I found it dead.
After a few minutes I found the secondary cpu was at fault.
Plug the module in, dead box. Unplug the module, up & running with 8 processes.
Now I'm thinking the thing just doesn't have what it takes to do DC 24/7/365.

Shame, it was really a great producer.
Weak a$$ Dell.

Maybe one of the rails died on the PSU? Does the 2nd CPU riser card have it's own power connector?

 

[Wiz]

Maybe one of the rails died on the PSU? Does the 2nd CPU riser card have it's own power connector?

I've swapped in a spare second CPU and it works great so I believe the card is bad. Dell sent me a replacement cpu but it will not work in the old card.

Just doing work on the box now - no DC.