Recent content by eositis

hmm... before you spend too much money, do some performance tests to identify problem areas. does the cpu get hammered and is frequently running at or near 100%. then you could add a second cpu to help the processing of parralel jobs. In my case, we found that the problem is throughput. cpu...

There is a long discussion on this topic in the IBM Redbook on performance tuning netfinity servers. The authors insist that the parity calculation issue you mention is a bunch of hogwash, as the cpu on the raid controller is specifically tuned for this function. They strongly recommend raid 5...

win2k should support 1024x768 @ 256 colors. you may neeed to go into the monitors config and have it list unsupported resolutions for it to work properly. When I installed win2k3 on the machine I had to add a vidcard to get rid of some performance problems. The vid card will only work in the...

Hmm... The ServerGuide disk you got is very old and has a very old version of the ServeRaid sw. Get the latest UpdateExpress cd _and_ the latest ServeRaid cd from the ibm website. The UpdateExpress cd will get your bios up to the latest version, and will also upgrade the drive firmware to the...

Gents- Thanks for the info. I will try the pin shorting solution next week when I go back to the site. I already had a chat with the tech who did the install, unfortunately he also has no idea what he set on the machines three years ago. If all else fails, I will have IBM swap out the boards...

It seems I have the same problem with two nefinity 4500R servers installed some years ago, and the tech put in a password of his own choosing. Unfortunately I now need to do a memory upgrade on these machines and they lock up asking for the admin password due to the changed mem config. By...