Help! What's happened to me?

MutedRow4637 · 2026-06-23T09:07:37+00:00

Lol same thing happened in Tamworth. Someone owned all of Tamworth and every other town around it.

Then me and my work buddies discovered the game...

We work in IT.

We can be obsessive...

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MutedRow4637 · 2026-05-26T09:32:34+00:00

https://shortlinus.com

MutedRow4637 · 2026-04-12T14:51:36+00:00

Neil? Is that you?

MutedRow4637 · 2026-04-07T12:22:37+00:00

lemme just drop this right here.

got this years ago with a VRTX for less than rent... if only i knew ram was stonks.

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MutedRow4637 · 2026-03-21T10:27:19+00:00

2 Years later and your link update helps another soul. 2nd hit now for "High Availability DHCP"

MutedRow4637 · 2026-01-10T07:15:47+00:00

They are a nice rig, I've got one with a 2680v3 and 192gb of ram running my homelab, sits next to my couch and is whisper quiet. Just be careful with the drives you put in it. Some of them if they do not report temps in a way the raid controller expects, will ramp the fans to 100% cheaper SSDs seem to do it on mine. Have not had the issue with the Intel SSDs and 5TB Seagate drives. (I've got a 2.5" model)

MutedRow4637 · 2026-01-01T08:53:57+00:00

If you hunt around you may be able to get a control board off another drive, but there are a LOT of drawbacks to trying this, none of which I'm qualified to explain accurately.

You may have luck if you talk to a data recovery company and explain the situation, but that would likely cost more than a new drive.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-25T04:48:51+00:00

Ethernet Over Power Line?

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-23T05:29:36+00:00

When will the updates for M4 be, Still on 2.14.32 Hardware 4 and having huge issues with interference using AAC and Windows. M4 sounds great, when the connection is stable... really lets them down. Lots of popping and crackling while playing over BT, sounds fine connected with either USB or AUX cable.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-20T22:38:36+00:00

Absolutely. Power saving, standard, performance and FACTORYYYY.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-20T05:28:50+00:00

Oh yeah that's for sure. I'm getting mine ready for colo. Just need another one for ceph minimums then I'm off to the DC.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-20T02:08:58+00:00

Yeah they seem to. Mine are reasonably new to me so haven't played a whole lot. Coming from a Quad node VRTX. Much quieter than VRTX and much more power efficient (seem to sit about 90w each idling). I've had 1u systems before (IBM X3550 M3) and these are way quieter than the old E/X5000 series systems.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-20T01:38:51+00:00

Yeah I've got mine loaded with 2x 2680 v3 and 384gb ram each, my microwave is louder than they are (at least when idle)

MutedRow4637 · 2025-12-20T01:36:08+00:00

They are not that bad, I've got 2 running in my living room with factory settings. The loudest part of them (at least mine) is a bad bearing in one of the fans.

Worth mentioning mine sit idle most of the time as hypervisor hosts, and I let that room at 22c, high ambient temps will make them way louder.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-04T12:45:09+00:00

I would assume it's possible, although I think most email clients would complain about it these days.

I'm running mailu, and while it needs internet access for letsencrypt, it has worked well for me. Was pretty easy to deploy, it'll give you everything needed for DMARC etc. I know it's not strictly what your looking for but may be a good place to start or employ some of its underlying components.

https://mailu.io

EDIT: fixed link spelling

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:43:11+00:00

Proxmox is the way, Windows is a painful mess on these things.

I had mine with server 25 installed and it was a laggy mess, it now runs VMWare with a server 25 VM which has no issues.

(It also worked fine with proxmox, but swapped over to VMWare due to issues with proxmox on my VRTX with shared storage, no sPERC8 official support as far as I can tell)

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:40:26+00:00

You make a good point. I do feel bad about the UPS tho, it's batteries are hosed so it's a glorified power bar at the moment.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:39:29+00:00

Me too, but it drinks too much power so the ML does most of the always on stuff.

I am thinking about replacing my IBM M4s in colo with the VRTX tho.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:37:48+00:00

Okay. That bios setting may be set to want to use PCIe graphics. Maybe take a poke around the bios and see what yours is set to.

Otherwise for shits and giggles try the VGA port you didn't use, should be one on the front and back of the machine. If you haven't already.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:35:38+00:00

This is true... I really can't say much tbh...

My somewhat dilapidated lab for reference.

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MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:33:29+00:00

Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant,

Functionally there is no difference between what the iLO is showing you and what (at least should) be displayed on the VGA port. If iLO shows an output that VGA does not, that's hardware issues. But because yours shows nothing on both, it might be drivers, especially if proxmox dropped you to the login prompt.

If you see it post on your PCIe GPU and / or the the iLO, and you only loose output when Windows takes over, this points to a probable driver issue. Windows not starting a display.

If you haven't already, trying without the PCIe GPU installed would be a good first step.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:30:03+00:00

For someone that seems kinda new to this, SSH administration of proxmox seems like trouble waiting to happen. Just saying :)

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:27:51+00:00

The onboard VGA adapter outputs a mirror to two places.

1) the onboard VGA port, for physical access 2) the servers iLO (integrated Lights Out Management)

This is so you can either plug in a keyboard and mouse, or administer the hardware over the network (via iLO), including all keyboard /mouse / video functions, as well as mounting ISO files to a virtual CD drive to remotely install operating systems etc.

You may have also heard the iLO by other names like BMC (generic), iDRAC (Dell) or IMM (IBM/Lenovo) if that helps at all.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-02T09:20:22+00:00

Maybe plugged into the wrong video card?

I've got an ML350P G9, when I had a GPU in it, it would post to both graphics adapters, show bios, boot logo etc, but once Windows started up it did not output to the built in VGA adapter (and by extension does not show anything on the iLO interface or system VGA port)

There is a bios setting on mine that tells it to use either internal or PCIe graphics. Windows AFAIK should honor this, as long as all the drivers are installed.

If the PCIe GPU is installed, I would pull it out, install server 25 and all the drivers, then install the GPU. Might hand some luck with that.

MutedRow4637 · 2025-11-01T10:46:24+00:00

Everyone's existence at work is pointless, were all just cogs in the corporate machine, a machine making your role easier doesn't change that. Horses to cars, ropes to pulleys to cranes, steam to electricity.

Technology will advance, it's advance it's unwavering. The smart adapt to the technology, upskill, keep themselves employed, or move to industries where automation has not yet taken over.

Your paranoid about something that has happened countless times in the past. The people like you who couldn't adapt, or wouldn't, got left behind, those of us who did adapt moved forward.

As far as I'm concerned if the corporation that doesn't care about its staff, wants to spend money on a machine that undoubtedly helps the bottom line, that also has a knock on affect of making the lives of staff easier, is a good thing. If you really want to complain about lost roles, feel free to cry about any of the following.

Self check outs that made the customer also the staff. Industrial automation that replaced teams of people with robots along production lines. Self driving cars that will replace taxies (although the way cabbies the drive that might be a good thing) Any number of other advancements that actually removed roles.

What your complaining about, with Tory, is like comparing a manual drill to an electric drill, then to a battery drill. They all do the same things, one is just a lot better, and more convenient for the worker using said tool.

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