Hardware Failures in 2021 - Post yours!
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New Old Stock RGBLED display for a M4400 arrived broken in the mail 
Oh, and a pin in the USB3 header of my C8DH which i'm still extremely pissed off about.
Oh, and a pin in the USB3 header of my C8DH which i'm still extremely pissed off about.
Posted elsewhere on the forums, but here again because it's the most spectacular hardware failure I have seen in a server system. A couple of uncontained fan failures in two separate 4 nodes in 2U systems in our HPC system at work.
Literally an hour ago, primary PC rebooted. Upon boot back up, rear panel audio is kaput. Brand new X570 AORUS MASTER mobo.
Intel i5-4440 began to BSOD today after a forced Windows update.
Memtest is pointing to errors on CPU3.
Memtest is pointing to errors on CPU3.
A BeQuiet PSU in my backup server which (after I pressed the power button a few time) fried it self (big spark) and the MB (Asus P10S-I) in one go.
First time that ever happened to me, in 30 odd years.
Everything else was fine - got an A2SDI-4C-HLN4F as a replacement.
Also have an Asus ASMB8-iKVM to give away.
First time that ever happened to me, in 30 odd years.
Everything else was fine - got an A2SDI-4C-HLN4F as a replacement.
Also have an Asus ASMB8-iKVM to give away.
My elderly Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F system --'FRITZ' -- fried last week. He served me well for many years; may he Rest In Peace.
If this counts, I've got a jm585 based M.2 5p sata controller, brand new and bent from digikey, only 3 ports working, won't POST, luckily they refunded without even having me send it back, no questions asked.
Also one of USB flash sticks started decaying, producing random garbage in returned data. Didn't even see much use, some backups went poof. Luckily I do backup important data into several external storages. Usually they just return IO errors, this one actually returns broken data.
Also one of USB flash sticks started decaying, producing random garbage in returned data. Didn't even see much use, some backups went poof. Luckily I do backup important data into several external storages. Usually they just return IO errors, this one actually returns broken data.
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Can't tell for sure as it's not deployed yet but just so you know 585 is a chip that only speaks x2 lanes, so you can easily saturate that bandwidth with two or three good SSDs. For HDDs I guess it's fine but as fo this particular one, I just didn't fully deploy it yet. I needed an M.2 controller because X12SAE doesn't have enough SATA ports and I didn't want to use PCIe slots for that.
Had two 15.36TB SSD's start crapping out on us recently, not the most fun to replace two of those.
Ok I am going to take it up a notch with the fan failures. The previous failures back in April, the fan blade just disintegrated (see earlier in the thread for pics). That turns out to be boring. This time around at least two (hard to tell as the fans are stacked two in a plugable module) fan blades in two modules in the same chassis disintegrated.
However rather than just shed some fan blades this time the fans have eaten themselves and spewed a golden coloured (presumably brass) metal dust all over the internals of the chassis. At this stage I have no idea if the system is completely toast or what. Logged with the vendor this evening but it's next business day. One has a feeling that this is going to be a very expensive repair. There was me thinking the previous fan failure was spectacular.
However rather than just shed some fan blades this time the fans have eaten themselves and spewed a golden coloured (presumably brass) metal dust all over the internals of the chassis. At this stage I have no idea if the system is completely toast or what. Logged with the vendor this evening but it's next business day. One has a feeling that this is going to be a very expensive repair. There was me thinking the previous fan failure was spectacular.
The Optane DIMM's themselves. Not sure if they didn't flash correctly or didn't activate correctly but somehow the process just hung. We let it run for days and it appeared finished. I think the controller software just gave up. When the dimm's are inserted into a machine it never posts, just hangs testing the memory forever, days forever.
Any suggestions?