Server Fubar'ed - Ideas welcomed

A. Khattri ajai
Thu Jun 9 14:08:35 PDT 2005


On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:

> One advantage with the older Athlons is that they left little
> doubt after a fan failure.  The smoking crater where the CPU used
> to live is a dead giveaway.

How old?

I ask because we had one a few months ago that became a smudge of black
soot on a piece of plastic. The thermal compound had been baked into a
rock stuck to the heatsink ;-)


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