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Current mood:  aggravated
Well my server finally has had it. It had been running poorly for months and getting slower all the time. A couple of weeks ago it started crashing several times a day. I backed up important data and set my sights on a server rebuild thinking the os was getting corrupted from 3 years of running the os and installing and uninstalling various software over the year. I had aquired a copy of Windows Server 2003 and went and installed that from scratch with a wiped HD. Well it booted up and I got SP1 installed and rebooted and it would Crash on bootup. I couldn't get anything to work in safemode or last known good configuration. So I said screw it. I'll go back install Windows 2000 Advanced Server which is what was on it before. I got the OS installed and it would run fine for a few hours then it would Crash with various errors. I spent a week trying diffrent things to get the OS installed, but the computer would always crash. I did a lot a research on those error messages and many answers pointed to memory being corrupted. I opened up the case which is a pain because the server is tucked back behind 2 other computers on the back corner of the computer table in the corner of the room. I had the server off and took the 2 of the 3 ram sticks out and was gonna run with 256MB ram and see if I could find the defective ram. I started up the server and noticed the CPU fan was running real slow actually barely turning as tt was all dusty. About 6 months ago I took the server outside and blew all the dust out with my leaf blower. YES I said my leaf blower. It works great. It produces a 100MPH wind that blows all the dust out of a computer. You should do it to your computer every several months to keep it cooling correctly. My basement is somewhat dusty as many unfinished basements are. The CPU fan was about 3 years old and had enough. I lost my Bios fan on the same MB about 1 year ago but never replaced it. So I went to Tigerdirect.com in Naperville, IL and picked up a Blue Ice Chipset fan(it has Blue LED's in it) for $5.99 and a CPU cooling fan for $2.99 The next day I put them in which was 11/14/06 and booted the computer. The computer would not post. I said AW SHIT. I waisted my time the MB must be fried. It would be the second Shuttle AK31 board that I lost out of three that I bought several years ago. I decided to swap parts with the Chriss computer that I have (it's my son's Chris's computer). I opened up his case (it's the exact same as the server) and noticed that his BIOS fan was barely spinning and his CPU fan was also real slow. I shut down and removed the CPU from his computer I also disgarded his two fans as I was going to go back to Tigerdirect.com and purchase those two same fans for his computer. He won't need his computer for a while as he is grounded from his computer because he failed two clases last quarter. Anyway I put his 1 GhzCPU in the server and put the ram back cause I was going to run the server at 1Ghz until I could purchase a new XP2100 CPU for the server. Well I powered it up and it still would not post and it was right there that I came to the conclusion that the MB was probally wacked, not sure but a good guess. I then said well it's time to upgrade the Chriss computer to 1 1.2Ghz chip and give it another 512MB PC2100 ram and a new CPU fan a new chipset fan and a new 6 inch Case fan cause the old one wouldn't start on powerup unless you reached in and manually spun it. I disconnected all the cables connected to the computer and took it out on the back porch and fired up the leaf blower and blew all that damn dust out of everything. Brought it back in and installed all the new fans. Hooked up all the cables and powered it up. That blue LED fan looks sweet in the dark. Too bad you can't see it with the case on it. Led fans are good for external placement or glass cases or covers. So here I am using the dad computer as a server. I no longer have a domain controller but this computer is sharing internet, it's serving Stevekraft.com. It's providing the MSNBC stream and 3 music streams. It's encoding the video for the MSNBC video stream here on myspace and at my website. I also have a email server installed called MailEnable which is free (I love free software). So without my server I'm running at about 60% of my services and no FTP server. On thing that I'm really pissed about was that I lost a lot of good software and movies and music that I had installed on that server as the CPU was corrupting thousands of files on my D Drive. Let this be a lesson to you keep the inside of your PC clean, and make sure your cooling is working properly.
7:06 AM
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