[Novalug] Searching for Parts....

Sun Jul 12 16:01:54 EDT 2009

Sorry about the typo.........

 >>> Motherboard         Intel Workstation / Server Dual Socket XEON 604 pin
       Chipset                  E7525
       Board                    SE7525GP2    Extended - ATX   size.
       FSB  stock            533 Mhz
       Memory                Dual Channel 4 DIMM Slots , up to 8 GB
                                    Registered ECC DDR 266 / 333 SDRAM
      Slots                      (1)  PCI Express x16
                                   (1)  PCI Express  x4
                                   (2)  PCI-X 64 Bit / 66 Mhz
                                   (2)  PCI  32 bit / 33 Mhz
      LAN                     (1) Pro 1000 Server Grade
      SATA                   (2) With onboard hardware RAID 0,1

      Firmware               Intel Server Management 8.0
                                   OS independent Pre-boot Control
                                    Health monitoring
                                    On Board Sensors.

 >>> CPUs have 2,      3.6 Ghz Core, 1.4 V max Core Dual Processing
                                   604 pin  mPGA requires VRM 10.0 
Compatibile
   CPU Code               BX80546KG3600EASL 7VF
    MM                        865843
    Batch                      3437A668
    Version                   C84411-001

These series XEON CPUs come in 3.0 Ghz, 3.2 Ghz, 3.6 Ghz, and the very 
rare 3.8 Ghz.
The 3.8's were on allocation the whole time they were available.
To run dual socket the CPUs have to be same speed, MM, Batch, ver. , 
Stepping no.
The  3.6's originally cost  ~ $975 each dealer wholesale.

I have an Adaptec 2940 U/W card, an Adaptec 29160N card, Creative Audigy 
card for it.
Radeon X1800GTX video card, Antec Tru-power Trio 650 W  PS.  Cheetah HD, 
2 SATA HDs,
Dual LG 22x DVD-RWs,   *Large* Cooler Master Tower Case. *Several*Large* 
fans....

Background
I bought 2 mbds and 2 Cpu's  3.6 Ghz.  A computer customer and good 
friend wanted a fast rig for an at-home business and some serious DOOM 
time.  His newly married adult daughter developed cancer
and died over 24+ months.  In the meantime these hardware(s) went off 
Intel front line support and
even though I had built and sold about 75 Intel based systems I had 
virtually NO experience or formal
training with the server management features or remote features of the 
workstation / server farm products.

The original plan was to clock the FSB at 800 Mhz and run the unlocked 
CPUs at a mind bending, number
crushing  5.403 Ghz !!!  I could buy DDR-400 memory for it so there 
would be no overclocking on the
raw memory sticks........... remember I get two sockets w/ 2 Cpus each....

Unfortunately I ran / crashed into problems w/o Intel tech support.
The beast won't even burp with less than a 650 W EPS Power Supply.
Even at that it will only run with the on-board ATI-Rage-128 video chip.
Plugging in any video card makes the machine just not do anything at 
all, even with the BIOS selecting
a plugin video card......
There are POST errors that I know how to fix for a desktop Intel board,
but this server unit needs something else to update the on-board firmware
and CPU stepping -- I don't have any idea how to run Server management 
V8.0 and
I don't want to mess it up -- these parts are irreplaceable.

It will boot and run the  Linux Format Aug ? 08 SuSE 11.0 DVD. I just 
can't use a machine
with POST errors on engineering projects for insurance reasons on the 
one hand, and I
would just NEVER do that anyway......  before I got all screwed up and 
handicapped I
had a severe "go hard" reputation with computer use. In one class I went 
through
2400  wing / tail / engine combinations for an aircraft design class; 
and another time I
went through  "many" simulations of an automated robotic factory. The 
simulations were
done on 12  486DX4 - 100s with a sawtooth station approach. I started 
the first run on
the first machine, waited exactly 5 minutes and started the 2nd run on 
#2, etc. At the
peak I had 12 simulations running in parallel.... So it only took one 
Sunday session at the
University to kill off all the runs I needed for the semester project, 
and I adaptively chose
the run values for the later runs based on results from the first 12 
runs.....

I could use some help.
On the good side, maybe deep satire, this thing makes the most unusual 
sound on startup.
It doesn't sound like fans at all - it sounds like turbines winding up.

Last blip / shot for today -- maybe I should just throw an 850 W PS in 
it and see what I get....

Ideas ?/

JRR

Ed James wrote:
> Ok, this boggles me - I did a google search on "SE7252GP2" and got
> exactly 3 hits - all seem to be in Japanese.   Might I inquire where
> you managed to FIND this board?
>
> Usually, a low-hit response implies a typo, but I didn't even get the
> "did you really mean..." message.
>
> Just Curious,
> Ed James
> ...
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>> On Jul 11, 2009, at 10:29 PM, JRR wrote:
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>>> Does anyone have one or two CPUs for this ??   Motherboard is Intel
>>> SE7252GP2.
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