Yeah indeed ahah

And yeah, I’m sure in the future I’ll find other weird server rails, and I actually have another pair of unused rails that I don’t know anything about, they are not sliding rails, just the “shelf” kind of rail. And I might talk a bit about it, even though there is a lot less to say about them (But rack mounting them is really finicky too it seems…)

The next blog post will be about an IBM eServer 336 that I got for free too, I’ll probably separate it into multiple parts (Hardware Review + Software Tests)

Edit: I just checked and there is a small HP part number sticker: 697305-001, and they are rails for the HP D3600 storage boxes! Well I know a lot more about these rails now

Thanks!

Angle grinder is quite an overkill solution, but I guess, when you have no other choice, you gotta do what you gotta do!

What a bunch of asshole (mazda that is)

It’s okay we’re all here to learn more!

Yeah, the first one is a whole IPMI card, it’s so overkill ahah

the second one require external power, I’ve seen this design a lot yeah…

I’ll do the USB to pwm route I think, I don’t have molex or sata at all either yeah…

It’s a HP server, therefore, no extra fan header, and the current fans are a proprietary standard, I could solder something… but I’d like to keep all the default fan in there…

I could not find any PCIe card that take power from the slot and transfer it to a fan header… this seems so logical but no one makes these…

If you find something on aliexpress let me know

Well, problem with servers mobo is that they don’t have normal fan header on them sadly… I will be careful with plugging in the right voltage fan in the right place tho, thanks for the reminder!

Hope I could assist your issue at least a little bit.

Thanks for your help, but no one seems to answer the question about how to power the fan…

It’s the P420 from HP it a PCI card, I will probably repaste it as well when adding the fan.

Yes for sure, I’ll do that !

Old gear is such cool and nerdy, I wonder if one day I’ll throw them out… probably not tho

I did this for a R715 from Dell, works like a charm indeed, but I can’t find any documentation about this on old HP gear…

but G5 and G6 are going to be pretty noisy and power hungry

It’s just for fun, not running 24/7! Also, the G6 is close to silent and the G5 is indeed a jet engine, but I’ve never touched HPE servers before and I’m glad I can learn more about them!

What is this NAND used for then? I thought about logs, but they still show correctly on iLO so it must be something else?

It was probably not a problem with the SD card reader; as I now get the error:

Controller firmware revision 2.10.00 NAND read failure: Media is in a WRITE-PROTECTED state

Even tho the SD card is not locked and the error still shows after pulling it off, the reference to the NAND make me think of a chip on the board that might be dead (but why eveything stills work then ?), might try to see if there is something in the BIOS by any chance tomorrow.

Also, It’s weird that they would group the SD Card and the NAND together…

I’ll try it then, thanks

and it thinks there’s a card in there

Might be that yeah… I’ll plug a card in the and see what it does; but before that, did you try something similar with off-the-shelf sd card ?

then why iLO complains and report about a missing SD Card there ?

Oh, yeah okay, well, we’ll see if I encounter this issue!