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    Supermicro Motherboard doesn't boot on the first time

    Hi, I have a strange problem with one of my servers, all of them are Supermicro X9SRi. Recently I've lost power on all my servers, as the power came back all of them powered up automatically but one didn't boot, just hang. So I did some test and it seems that if I power off the server, let it...
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    Sun Microsystems ATLS1QGE Quad Port GbE

    Does anybody have any experience with this NICs?(Sun Microsystems ATLS1QGE Quad Port GbE) I happen to run Solaris and they are pretty cheap on ebay. Sun Microsystems ATLS1QGE Quad Port GbE UTP PCIe x8 Card 501-7606-04 ciao Alberto
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    Supermicro and RAM installation

    Hi, I'd like to ask a question to the experts. So, I've built only few servers in my life, most of them using Supermicro boards. Every time I built one I've spent hours doing the RAM shuffle dance trying to make the motherboard Post. Today again for the second time this month I had to build a...
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    Forum Performance

    Hi, I'm experiencing some very poor performance using the forum. The main site is fast but the forum drops requests half of the time, and loads very slowly. I'm in Singapore, my home connection is a 1Gb/s fiber, I can get up to 500Mb/s downloads from US so bandwith is not a the issue. I tried...
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    Choosing hardware for Small Office Server

    Hi, I have to setup the "IT infrastructure" for a small company(my company) we are moving to a temporary office and I was thinking of consolidating all in one server. I have to select the hardware to run the core services for our team(~10 workstations) and I'm not sure how much horsepower I...
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    Ninja

    Build’s Name: NINJA Operating System/ Storage Platform: NexentaCore (Solaris) CPU: Intel Core i3 530 Motherboard: SuperMicro X8SIL-F Chassis: Lian-Li A17 Drives: 2x Corsair F40 40GB SSD, 3x Samsung LP 2TB, 1x Seagate LP 2TB, 1x WD Caviar Green 1TB (EADS) RAM: 4x 2GB Kingston ECC UDIMM...