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worth fixing an old compaq

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TechBoyJK

Lifer
I have an old compaq proliant server, 1650r

total work horse in its day

dual p3 500mhz
2GB pc133 ram
2xSCSI hot swap drives
4xscsi hot swap drives
redundant power supplies

It was configured as a database server.

2x18GB 10k scsi drives as OS volume
4x9GB 10k scsi drives as data volume (3x9 raid 5 with 1 hot spare).

it worked fine until I decommissioned it. It had been sitting in my garage for a few months. I just fired it up last night and it's beeping and posting a cpu error code.
saying cpu1 not socketed correctly

i probably bumped it or something. I tried reseating both cpu's and didn't get rid of the error. this is the first time i've seen it. server was fine last time i powered it on.

I don't have a need for the server. I was going to sell in on craigslist for like $30. Should i fuss with trying to fix the cpu (and maybe even put in 2 x 1ghz p3)?? I have an older tower that has dual p3 1ghz chips and I was thinking about seeing if I could swap them.

I'm also really busy and partially just thinking about pulling out the raid cards and throwing the rest away/recycling it. It's not worth my time if I'm jsut going to try and sell it for $30.. if that.
 
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i'm thinking the two raid controllers in the server are probably worth more than the server itself.. if anything. i think i'm just going to trash it. not worth the time only for some other problem due to age to creep up after i get this one thing fixed...
 
P3's a pretty good chip, especially with 2 of them. That would make a sweet desktop for someone without a lot of money. Get rid of the SCSI stuff, and I'd use it as a bedroom computer.
 
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