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So i watched the LTT videos about gaming on outdated server equipment, got inspired and i went and found some cheap xeon x5680 6 cores and a motherboard from a dell poweredge c1100, and is there some giant bottleneck i am not seeing? The only problems i can think of are the single pcie x16 slot, which will be taken up by a GPU and how would you go about getting a sound output? Also i am aware that getting a power supply and ram is a bit of a drag. Ty on beforehand for the help. Here are the specs for the c1100 motherboard: Processors: 2-socket, 6 cores per processor Intel® Xeon® 5500/5600 processor series with L2/L3 cache: 4MB/8MB/12MB Front Side Bus: Intel® QuickPath Interconnect Memory 2GB/4GB/8GB DDR3 (1333 MHz), 16GB DDR3 (1066 MHz), 18 DIMM slots for up to 192GB SDDC, ECC 4GB/8GB/16GB low-volt DDR3 Samsung® Green Memory Chipset: Intel® 5500 Video: Integrated AST2050 with 8MB VGA memory Primary Storage: Maximum internal storage: 10TB SATA (2.5”) or 12TB NL 6Gb SAS (3.5”) Drive Bays and Hard Drives • 10 x 2.5” or 4 x 3.5” hot-plug hard drive options • 2.5” 6Gb SAS (15K): 146GB • 2.5” 6Gb SAS (10K): 300GB, 600GB, 900GB • 2.5”NL SAS (7.2K) 500GB, 1TB • 2.5” SATA II (7.2K) : 250GB, 500GB, 1TB • 2.5” SSD (SLC NAND): 50GB, 100GB • 3.5” SATA (7.2K): 500GB, 1TB, 2TB • 3.5” 6Gb SAS (15K): 300GB, 450GB, 600GB • 3.5” 6Gb NL SAS (7.2K): 1TB, 2TB, 3TB Connectivity: Onboard Intel® 82576 – 2 x Gb Ethernet and 1 x 100Mb Ethernet dedicated management port Add-in: 1Gb and 10Gb Ethernet card options QDR InfiniBand card options Ports - USB: 3.5” chassis: 4 USB ports (2 rear, 2 front) 2.5” chassis: 2 USB ports (2 rear) I/O Slots: 3 PCIe G2 slots: 1 x 16 PCI Express Gen2 slot 1 proprietary mezzanine for dual port 10GbE daughtercard 1 proprietary mezzanine for LSI® 2008 SAS daughtercard Controllers: Internal Controllers: LSI 2008 SAS daughtercard LSI MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i PERC H700 External Controllers: PERC H800

Apparantly really similar things has happened to my dads pc twice due to really garbage electricity grid where we live, but what he said was that your computer checks that file as the first thing it does when it boots up, and that if the entries for the chipset drivers are corrupted it most likely wont boot not even to the bios, but idk.

Back in like 2014 i bought it as a "damaged HDD"(the black paint underneath is missing on like half) from a custom pc builder locally, so i dont think i ever had a warranty. But thanks for the tip about seatools il definetly try that, but as of now ive been able to move a 400gig photo folder from an eksternal drive to the HDD and back again with no problems, compared to not being able to even boot or use it externally for more than 2 mins at a time. Ty for the help again, and yea iguess you are right, its time to give it a clean again

UPDATE: The bios had some problems recognising both disks but after messing around with what ports they were connected to it seems to work perfectly now. So iguess the broken mft somehow prevented my computer from booting, even though it wasent the boot disk. Thanks so much for the help

Thanks for the reply ?, i tried what you suggested but i still had the same problem but later i found this USB external universal disk box thingy so i put the hdd in there and it worked for short periods of about 2mins before i had to reboot the disk thing. Please ignore how crusty the computer is, but here you can se the setup. Anyways so i tried running chkdsk /r on the disk, and the first time it stopped working but the second time it managed to finnish. But do you think the master file table was the problem? Asked my dad earlier what he thought and a broken mft was his suggestion as well. As of now it has been stable for almost an hour, but i will reformat the disk, connect internally again and update this post later. But thank you so much for your help , you might have just saved me like 50$

No problem mydude, but yhea even if its just plugged in it wont boot. But i used to boot from this drive so im thinking it maybe deafaults and makes the HDD the boot drive? But again it freezes right before the BIOS so i cant check that nor change it.

Thank you for the reply, but as i tried to say the disk is disconnected and i now run a ssd with windows which works nice, i was just wondering if this was a know problem with these disks and if there is any hope saving the disk so i dont have to buy a new one. But as i cant get into the bios with the disk connected i cant really troubleshoot it.

TLDR: Broken(?) disk wont let me boot past the press del to open bios page, wondering if i can save the disk somehow as i think its not a hardware fault but a software one. So i used to run a single 1TB HDD in my setup but over the course of a night it somehow broke, i think. My computer gets to the bios screen, but i cant open the bios and it gets no further. Luckily for me, prior to this i bought a 120 gig ssd from ebay, which arrived like 2 days after it broke. But is this a known problem? I cant even open the bios, so i dont know if the motherboard even can see the HDD. If i plug in the power to the disk and boot my computer i can hear it whirring up just like it always has, also i might have had a hard shutdown while defraging the disk the night before it broke and that is why im thinking its maybe the encoding on the disk and not physical breaking of some sort. Any ideas what i should do next to troubleshoot? Dont care about the data on it but it would be nice to not have to buy a new disk. PS: Have tried using known to work sata and sata power cable but no difference. WIN10 64bit. Thanks in advance and first time posting so sorry if the formating is really bad.