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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:04 pm    Post subject: Need help making my own computer Reply with quote

Hey guys,
In all of that navy stuff I got,I found several dual xeon boards.I want to use one of them to make a super PC.The one I want to use has dual 3.2g processors,and currently has 2g of ram.I have another 2.6g that can go in it.Heres my problem,it was originally set up as a server with multiple scsi HD's but i need to use my HD from my hp.There is a place on the board to plug in my HD and I tried last night,but the screen kept saying "no operating system found".Is anyone familiar enough with doing this to help me?If not thats ok,my current comp is not bad,but when I have several pages open it runs pretty slow.
Thanks for any help guys,
Johnny.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

one of the scsi drives have been probably made the primary boot drive, so you will need to go into the bios and make the EIDE hard-drive boot b4any of the SCSI drives.

Also if the operating system was already on the drive.. will probably only work if you reinstall the OS. (depends what type of puter the OS was installed on previously)

The 2.6G.. is that extra ram.. or another processor?

dual setups.. need the same speed & stepping processors... but some boards will accept one stepping difference.

are the processors 800 or 533FSB? (sSpec will tell me .. eg SL7AE)
is the mobo a intel or supermicro? (what is the model #)

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the 2.6 is extra ram,but I have more now.I went into setup and it doesnt want to let me switch the primary to my HD.Anyone help?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

will need to know what motherboard it is.. to really help

intel? supermicro? & what model number?

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have quite a few supermicro boards.But the one I would like to use is a X6DHE-G.It has dual 3.2g cpus.Thats kind of why I want to use it.I am running a single 3.06 P4 right now with 1g ram.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

here is the main page for the board

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHE-G.cfm

the motherboard manual (link on the page) deals with setting up the bios

having a quick look.. might need to check that the Parallel ATA is not disabled if your drive is EIDE ... or Serial ATA if your hard-drive is a SATA

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 8:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I went to the link but I am still having trouble with the computer taking my HD.If I sent pics or specs of my HD could someone please walk me through it?
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