Dinh 2011/NOTES/2011-7-13
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Meangenemachine Upgrades[edit]
- Double checked that the motherboard will fit the ATX case
- Secured new CPUs to new MB
- Placed an even and thin layer of thermal compound onto the back of CPU. Wiped off thermal compounds from the back of the heatsinks.
- Placed the heatsink on top of the CPU. Directing heat to the top of the case for both CPUs
- Screwed the heatsinks on, making sure that the weight is evenly distributed. When done, lift MB and check that the screws are in.
- Make sure that the cpu fans are plugged in the designated slots.
- Placed all the RAM sticks into sockets, 2 per CPUs and in the closest slots to the CPUs.
- Removed wire from old MB, uncrew and remove old MB from case.
- Cleaned the case.
- Wired up the new MB, make sure to set the power jumper (because no on-board switch) and grounding jumpers correctly.
- Turned on power [ Note: a glitch occurred where system couldn't boot because the "chassis is open" ]
- We accessed the bios and checked that everything was running fine.
- Attached harddrives, NVIDIA 9800x GPU, and sound card => system failed to boot
- Removed NVIDIA 9800x GPU => system booted
- We went back to the ATI Radeon => system booted
- There was no bios upgrade required, system detected 24 cores and 32 GB of ram.
- We changed the bios setting to boot from old boot disk
- The system booted fine. We attached 2x2TB HDD, and one 640GB HDD
- Registered new IP with ACS
- Configured DHCP-only and restarted networking, new IP: 132.239.189.234
- Re-format new drives as ext3 using gparted. Add UUID to /etc/fstab/
Genemapster[edit]
- Formated /media/disk-1 as ext3 !
To do
- Need to upgrade to the newest NVIDIA driver and CUDA version for using SOAP3.
- Need to install SOAP3 and GPU-BLAST