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When the walls come tumbling down... (aka fallen soldiers)

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BCinSC

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:brokenheart: Literally. My crack rack collapsed. I noticed a significant drop in production and swung by annex location to check it out. I had two tables, one stacked on other, with 6 tower machines on top and four with 17" monitor on bottom. Bottom leg gave out and sent everything crashing down. Many continued to crunch, but internet link was down. Wonder of wonders, no apparent damage beyond cosmetic scratches - even monitor survived - but bottom table is headed to the dump. Oh well, good excuse to clean up the growing bird's nest of wires.
 
Definitely lucky. Had some serious hardware up there. 😀

________.....______......_______.....________......._________....._______
|Gateway.|....|Dell PE|....|Dell Dim|....|.Compaq.|.....|.Athlon XP.|.....|Celeron|
|...6400....|....|400SC.|....|...2400....|....|PL800 P3|.....|...Barton....|.....|Tualatin|
|Dual 933|....|.P4/2.4.|....|.P4/2.53.|....|Dual 450.|.....|.1.83@2.3.|.....|1.3@1.7|
|15k SCSI|....|800 HT.|....|....533.....|....|Scsi Raid|.....|WD250GB|.....|.Raid 0.|
 
I was wondering why your numbers dropped off!! Been following you and a few others on the TeAm board just to see who the REAL crunchers were down where I'm at.
 
:camera:'s?

I know I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing I had a big setup not in my direct vincinity. I worry too much about other people looking/touching/breaking things. I can barely keep things safe & secure in my own home.

You can probably find a nice strong & heavy peace of furniture at a thrift shop/garage sale nearby. Something really old, that is build to last. GL. 🙂
 
No pix. Just too disturbing. Have put the heaviest, Compaq and Gateway, on floor where they belong. 😱 The other four are back on the good table with the monitor - neat, clean, and crunching.
 
You were lucky!, can't believe the monitor & no HDDs were damaged!:Q

Btw nice overclock from that Tualatin Celeron🙂 ,the 2 I had wouldn't go over 1.5GHz
 
Celeron only $40 shipped from NewEgg. Dropped it in my ASUS TUSL2-C, set for 133FSB, and she cranked right up with stock cooling. Actual clock is 1732 and runs about 50C. Ranks equivilant to P4/2.53 for Find-A-Drug. Will compare SETI WUs.
 
Those monitors are probably what did it. More than likely, they weigh a ton. I've got 3 Athlon 1k's set up with one monitor and 1 keyboard and mouse. I am using RealVNC to keep tabs on them. This setup brings the overall weight WAY down.

I feel your pain though....

Martin Trevino
 
Only one monitor connected to cascading 8-port APEX KVMs. Gateway and Compaq towers are really heavy - I was stupid for putting them on top shelf. I thought the bottom table seemed a tad wobbly when there previously. Leg lock simply let go. Chair kept bottom table from completely falling down, but by then it was like Dominoes.
 
Sounds like you need a relay rack with some center mount shelves.
Glad nothing was broke in the fall!
 
Originally posted by: BCinSC
:brokenheart: Literally. My crack rack collapsed. I noticed a significant drop in production and swung by annex location to check it out. I had two tables, one stacked on other, with 6 tower machines on top and four with 17" monitor on bottom. Bottom leg gave out and sent everything crashing down. Many continued to crunch, but internet link was down. Wonder of wonders, no apparent damage beyond cosmetic scratches - even monitor survived - but bottom table is headed to the dump. Oh well, good excuse to clean up the growing bird's nest of wires.
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You know that your computers are dedicated to you when they keep on crunching even after a fall. 😉

Three beers that nothing was damaged!!

:beer: :beer: :beer:
 
Yeah, me, too. Especially the higher speed ones. But now two days later they are all up and crunching (Folding@Home and a little Find-A-Drug at the moment). Only one that won't run is one that wasn't in the crash - a large HP NetServer LXr Pro Quad Xeon. 🙁
 
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