beep! *wait 30 seconds* beep!
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techrecoveryMay I just say that having too many devices that beep is going to drive me absolutely bananas real soon now. I was in our shiny new server room this morning and I kept hearing a beep from the rack, which was behind me. I looked in the rack, and two of the servers, one Dell 1950 and 1 Dell 2950, have blinking main LED indicators. I looked in our monitoring software, I poked around on the machines themselves, and I sent out an email mentioning the unexplained beeping and the blinking LEDs. I finished what I was doing and walked out the door. As I was locking the door, I heard the beep again, in the hallway. So I stood around like an idiot waiting to hear it again - longest 30 seconds of my week, I tell you. One professor walked by while I was just standing there listening to nothing, and she gave me the oddest look as she walked by. Turns out my pager had gone off while I was elbow-deep in the rack, and now it was beeping to tell me that I hadn't looked at its message.
Stupid pager.
Doesn't change the fact that two servers have blinking indicator lights, though, so at least it made me look at them.
Stupid pager.
Doesn't change the fact that two servers have blinking indicator lights, though, so at least it made me look at them.
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:34 pm (UTC)Did the video pick up on the sound?
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:50 pm (UTC)And yeah, fun times... lots of giggles and a hell of a lot of pizza and soda!
Funnest bit was discovering that if you turned up the pump pressure on the liquid cooling circuit, down-revved the fans by forcing the mainframe to idle... then suddenly loaded the cpu to maximum, turning up the heat and thereby revving up the fans...and finally dropped the water pressure in the liquid cooling part of the system... you could basically make the mainframe blow a very loud and juicy raspberry !!
Didn't use that in the end... but at oh-god early on a Sunday, that was hilarious!
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Date: 2007-07-20 03:56 pm (UTC)I'm so envious of that awesomeness.
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Date: 2007-07-20 04:01 pm (UTC)well, it was rather silly at times too...buncha techs all sitting around, giggling like schoolboys and making the central mainframe make rude noises!