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I have an old IBM x3650 m4 with two E5-2630v2 and 24x 16GB Dual-rank RDIMMs. Till this i ran all 384GB at 1333MHz, now i just wanted to try it with 256GB or 128GB for faster Speeds. If im not mistaken i should get 1866MHz with 1 RDIMM and 1600MHZ with 2RDIMMS. But i only can get 1333MHz. I set every power setting to max, no mirroing or rank sparing and used only the white slots. I attached pictures of my current 128GB configuration. Link to the manual page 50 (62) onwards: https://systemx.lenovofiles.com/help/topic/com.lenovo.sysx.7915.doc/x3650_M4_7915_isg.pdf Has anyone experience with IBM Systems? Am i just stupid and mess up? I can provide more Information if needed. Ty, in advance Specs: IBM x3650 m4 Dual E5-2630v2 24x 16GB 2Rx4 PC3-14900R-13-12-E2-D3

They weren’t around for that long, but IBM’s microdrive had a major impact on multiple industries.

Hello people! This is my first post so I apologise if I posted in the wrong place or didn't follow decorum. A couple of months ago I bought an old IBM System x3650 M2 server (Geekbench score here for more info) for about 200 dollars. I wanted to buy it primarily to play around more with server hardware without having to worry about pricing or buying myself in on a VPS somewhere in the cloud. It runs Ubuntu 20.04 (which is also something I want more practice in) and I want to use it for various things. Mostly to run a bunch of docker containers for local network services I want as well as acting as a PLEX server. Now the thing is; I'm rather new to all this and while I will watch LTTs videos on PLEX again to get familiar with that part, I do want to ask the smart heads here about what storage you think might make sense to buy? I am not looking for anything overkill. I am an average consumer and I'm looking for affordable storage that should fit the 200 dollar server. Perhaps even a RAID setup might make sense, which I've never tried to setup before. I believe it has trays for 2.5'' and should be able to do SSD and HDD. Any suggestions?

I was given this IBM Blade Center S, (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-ibm-bladecenter-s) with the thought of using it as a NAS and or a Plex Server. I have no clue how to set it up, can anyone help me?

Hi, I am tinkering in my spare time with legacy server equipment. Even if it is completly out of date, the resilience of the hardware ist phenomenal. I got my hands recently on an old IBM eServer xSeries 360 8686 2EQ. It posted ok, but had issues with the ServeRAID 4m Controller, whose battery has leaked all over the controllerboard. I removed the battery and startet to update the ASM firmware and such via ASM. Somehow I got a faulty disk image to boot with and since then, the server will not post anymore. It turns on, the display lights up, displays the IBM logo and the number of installed CPU's and then reboots. I reset the ASM card to factory defaults and even changed the mainboard, since the USB ports were shot, CR2032 recepticle was broken and additional damage from the bad battery from the RAID controller. Remote access to the ASM is still possible, nothing in the log. Any ideas how to get it up and running again? Does anyone have the codes for the two 7-segment displays on the memory adapter? Or the description of the two jumpers on the ASM card? I cannot find anything in the IBM documentation. Thanks for reading this Happy New Year Torkum73

Summary IBM have now created a 2nm chip in one of its labs. IBM says that the chip can improve performance by 45% compared to the current 7nm chips found in Ryzen. They also said that the chip uses 75% less energy as well. It claims the tech could quadruple mobile phone battery life. IBM claim they can fit 50 billion transistors on the size of a fingernail to roughly quote IBM. My thoughts IBM may have done it now but will take ages for the desktop computing industry moving towards this new standard. There was a four year interval between IBM getting 7nms and AMD's Ryzen processors having them in 2019. Intel still hasn't transitioned to 7nm. I predict that 2nm will first appear publicly and attainably, is in mobile phone processor chips. But what is really strange about this is that IBM are telling us about the future of chips, when we can't even get hold of the current latest and greatest chips. This chip shortage is not only affecting the tech industry but also the car industry and many, many others. This is the worst time possible to announce this. Sources https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57009930

i have been designing a IBM compatible for fun but one small problem i dont have the BIOS ROM and without that i will just have a nice paperwhite. so if you know of how to get the rom for the BIOS thanks

Long-term storage has achieved yet another milestone. As you know, tape drives provide an incredible amount of storage capacity for a relatively cheap price. And this is another leap. Source: https://blocksandfiles.com/2020/12/16/ibm-and-fujifilm-580tb-tape-capacity-record/

Pointless Intro: So I’ve been building PC’s since I was 13, I’ve had Athlons, A6/A10, FX, Ryzens, Pentiums, i3/i5/i7 I’ve swung at everything I can possibly hit. And because of that I thought, building a server would be easy as pie, it was not. So I ‘recently’ bought had 3 servers off gumtree, for the total of £60. A HP DL380, A Dell Power Edge (Sold very Quick) and today’s offender a 2002 IBM eServer. Problem: So I’m in the process of trying to load a new OS (Windows Server 2000) onto it, but every time I try and download it off of a CD Drive, the server then try’s to boot by network. It’s more than happy to boot from Floppydisk, and would happily run MS-Dos (only OS I had lieing around on floppy), but it will not under any circumstances load from the CD. Im having some ‘mild’ issues with my switches right now, so I can’t try anything network related at the moment, and due to the server only having 1 USB port, and the fact I would have to run my boot OS, keyboard and mouse through the same 2.0 port, has me a tad nervous. Also I don’t think it will be able to get drivers as I cannot get an Ethernet connection reliably to it. If not, I’m looking to Erase whatever partitions are on the current hard drives, and stupidly sold the only working server immediately. So if anyone has any idea how to erase 320 Ultra SCSI’s using no OS, I’d be over the moon to hear it. TL;DR: Cannot get Server to run an OS that isn’t in floppy. Need Help.

So this is an interesting piece of kit that I recently came across. The Expansion unit (Top) is build inside of an IBM pc chassis, but is mostly empty inside. It links to the host with a special card that is apparently very rare due to them being commonly discarded. Also the cable they use to attach is MASSIVE. After doing some preliminary research this seems to be a very rare item to have, never mind having it complete and functioning.. It was a very cool find and I currently have a CGA card, and a modem card installed in this alongside the hard disk controller and receiver card.

June 19 2019 IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat. Nearly a year and a half later the company has so much confidence in RedHat's parent devision, The Cloud Devision, that they no longer want to be associated with Mainframes and other Infistructure services. The Cloud Devision is the only growing devision inside IBM. Due to massive cost cuts in R&D, labor, and investment as well as using creative accounting practices IBM was able to delay some of the huge issues its been facing since the 90's at bay until around 5 - 6years ago. The traditional mainframe devision has been threatened by basic x86 servers for decades, and the last decade of evolving cloud hosting companies has effectively nailed closed most of IBM into a weighted coffin and tossed them into the ocean. IBM has been a long time investor in Linux, but also a sort of fair weather friend in regards to percentage of spend reletave to size of company. Remember in 2009 IBM was the forth largest company in the world. And its Linux investments have played critical roles in the early years. IBM invested a billion dollars in 2000 on Linux, but has since been easily overshadowed by others Including Facebook who has spent an estimated 16billion dollars on open source technologies. It's presumed that IBM both hopes to jump the stock price by changing their narrative, and change the management focus of the company and investors into greater R&D spend. Other more successfull Coud Giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are heavily invested in A. I. and open source. P. S. Open source is not necessarily a silver bullet for every Cloud company, at least in my opinion. But it's hard as a private company to get free spec work if your customers and enthusiasts can't see your code. Summary 10 Years of declining infrastructure management, (aka mainframe,) services sales and IBM has decided to spin off the division into its own company. Quotes My thoughts Layoffs, outsourcing, and massive cuts to R&D for decades led to little room for new internal business growth. If they wish to maintain the growth of the Cloud Division, aka Watson and Redhat, then they need to kill off the old guard. Hopefully they stop the disorganized cost management at all costs strategy and turn around like Microsoft has under Satya Nadella. It would suck to see RedHat, formerly the largest open source company and the birthplace of kvm*, crumble like the rest of IBM has. Sources . https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/08/ibm-shares-surge-on-plans-to-spin-off-unit-into-separate-publicly-traded-company-.html . https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/18/ibm_q2_fy2019_decline/ . https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-21/ibm-beats-estimates-ekes-out-revenue-growth-on-cloud . https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisition-red-hat-34-billion-defines-open-hybrid-cloud-future . https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/ . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine . https://itsfoss.com/ibm-invest-1-billion-linux/ . https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/08/facebooks-long-history-of-open-source-investments-deepens-with-platinum-level-linux-foundation-membership/

Saw this pass video pass through my subscription feed, while watching it I thought to myself "this would make linus wet" and therefore the community might like it too. Not sure how much crossover there is between LTT viewers and the EEVBlog, if you are interested in real electronics you should give Dave Jones a watch. EEVblog #1341 - AMAZING $250,000 IBM Processor Teardown! The construction of the "heat spreader" is amazing and cools 121 silicon dies on a single ceramic substraight with 2772 pins. This is a real processor, they would have many in a mainframe for enterprise compute. Can anyone beat that in CPU size alone? (Edit: I can spell)

Summary IBM will release a new processor made using Samsung's 7nm process node in the second half of 2021 Quotes My thoughts There's been a few rumours around the yield problems at Samsung and their 8nm node, so this is an interesting development, showing perhaps that they think they'll be on top of that by the second half of next year enough to bring a brand new processor on a brand new node. Would love for Anthony to get a hold of something like this and do some comparisons in linux, then let Linus come in and game on Steam's proton (if it worked). Sources https://newsroom.ibm.com/2020-08-17-IBM-Reveals-Next-Generation-IBM-POWER10-Processor

I know that once besides x86 there was the Power PC architecture by IBM for example Apple used Power PC processors before Intel. also the Xbox 360 used it so -why do you don’t find it modern in „ normal PCs „ ? -where do you still find it ? ( except the supercomputers summit and Sierra) -what benefits does it have ( is it better than x86 but wasn’t used because Windows is only available for x86) I‘m happy about your answers

Forgive me if this is the wrong section of the forum. Not done with the restoration, but I am done with one of the IBM Model Ms as well as the Bolt Mod. I found two IBM Model Ms in a abandoned mental asylum. Also IBM 35SX computers. CRTs had wires cut and everything was supposed to be junked 26 years ago. Surprised I found them in the half burnt down building. Doing a full restoration. Computer fired up. Restored + bolt modded one of the Model Ms and got one more to go. The cleaning process was very rigorous, more rigorous than the getting out of the place with a giant ass computer without getting spotted by po po (Lets just say, it aint my first time saving old tech). I wanted to make sure there wasn't a single germ left on this. It was basically a raccoon, rat, and coyote bathroom for 26 years. The animal piss also denigrated part of the traces which had to be painted in which was fun. I'll upload the restoration on YouTube when I'm done editing. (The PC/CRT will be in another video). The place I found it in was more than scary and pretty remote (Especially the part that was burnt to crisp). However, as soon as I saw old computers I hopped right thru that tiny window lmao. Computer appears cleaner in the first photo because it was dusted off a little.

They we're so big in the 90', I don't see them anywhere. What do they do now?

Hi Team, I'm getting a good deal on the IBM X3650 server. It has the following configuration: Intel Xeon Quad Core x 2CPUs( 8 Cores ) 32GB RAM 300GB SAS HDD, RAID 0.1.5..Etc . 2 Port 1Gig LAN, Dual Power Supply. I checked the product specification page and found that it has 6 hot swap bays for holding hard drives. I wanted to know if I can install consumer grade hard drives eg Seagate iron wolf nas hard drives into the X3650. Further I wanted to gain an insight about this server's use case about home use. I plan to create a file server and home media server. Should I go with X3650 machine to install freenas onto it? Thanks.

Hello lads, Despite knowing nothing about servers besides a FreeNAS system in a corner, I bought a Lenovo Thinkserver RD640. And it's been leaning up against a wall for the last week. I want to mount it in a rack but the first set of universal rails I bought on eBay didn't work (did get a refund though!) Since I've now learned by trial by fire, How are rails categorized? Do all brands have their own mounting hardware? The only listing I can find that specifically mentions my machine is almost $100. Would RD540 rails work as a substitute? This is a pic of the first set next of rails to my machine. I have no idea what I'm doing. I got it for a good deal and I'm only using it for Minecraft and FreeNAS.

So i just got my hands on an old ibm xseries 226 server, im thinking about changing the included single core xenon cpu with 2 Xeon X7460 to get 12 cores, they have the same 604 socket so in theory they should work. Does anyone know if the Xeon X7460 is compatible with the server's motherboard? thanks

can i use this sensor on my motherboard? maybe i can made a adapter for it, idk help!

One night while searching for a decent listing of my favorite IBM keyboard, the KB-8923, I started to look for a more compact layout and something newer... This led me to what I learned is called "TenKeyLess," (TKL for short) or 87-key models. I knew they existed, I just didn't know of many, and rarely see them out in the wild. Like many, I've long grown tired of those excessive keys on the side taking up extra space on an often poorly designed panel. During the search, I came across one that had the cleanest, most appealing design of all; the Leopold FC-750R. Although I don't care for the use of the obsolete mini-USB port, I'm very interested in the replaceable keycaps with modern Cherry-MX switches-- and the surprisingly durable under-structure. So at this point I know what I want, but I can't exactly get it 100% right because of how parts are marketed... I narrowed it down to 2 color schemes of the FC-750 that definitely have my attention; Graphite Blue (or Sky Dolch... whatever that is...) and Ash Yellow. As you can see, the blue one is visually appealing, but I absolutely HATE that ugly brown for the main keys. Call me picky all you want, but I think everyone can agree that any shade close to cerakote utterly clashes with the beauty of the outer area and simply does not work with this black and blue theme. I mean, blue is great, but the brown doesn't fit on anything other than retro-themed layouts. Next, the Ash Yellow is stunning; the sharp color contrast gets the attention of all who see it and really "jumps out" in terms of visibility-- I swear, I could see this is a pitch black room with no backlight and no screen-- it's that kind of bright yellow. To be clear, there are very few cases wherein yellow is an acceptable color for anything, much less a keyboard. The problem here is that it's too stunning; bright yellow works on the space gray keys, in fact they even compliment each other; but yellow on black is generally too pronounced. From an enthusiast standpoint, I feel almost blinded by the yellow-on-black outer keys. But the soft gray keys provide that mild semi-retro appeal (keyboards from the early to mid 2000's) and with solid yellow legends to offer added visibility. Here's my dilemma: both cost $119 USD, and only come as complete assemblies. I've tried an failed to locate individual keycaps or sets of them in the schemes seen here, after looking at several known sites that sell key cap sets. I want the first model shown, but I need to replace all the brown keycaps with the gray ones shown on the second layout. And yes, I'm keeping the legends as they are, so the layout I desire here is Ash Yellow for the primary keys (and applicable F- keys) and Black/Sky Blue for all secondary/outer keys. Just short of defaulting to my original favorite, I could go for broke and get both layouts, configure the one I'll keep the way I want it, and then either resell the second unit with the inverted layout, or keep it for parts or as a spare. But, that's super expensive. A single legacy KB costs enough as it is, so how would I justify ordering 2 of this exotic new one? What should I do? Maybe wait 'til I can afford both? Or just go with the old one I already know and love? And DO NOT tell me to contact one of those keycap makers to order custom caps. That still costs more, and communication of any kind other than F2F always gets me nowhere with companies. Believe me, I've tried that. And PLEASE leave out the lousy "you could 3D print them" comments! UPDATE: Found a site where you can "build your own keyboard" with their cleverly made web design, and managed to get a general image of what my idea looks like: I know, not as cool as one might think, right? Upon realizing how ridiculous the color scheme would be, I set my idea to the side in favor of something similar and better. Then, I came across this odd listing for the FC750R-PS (instead of PD) which seems to be particularly favored in Korea, but with a couple units available in the U.S for the slightly higher price of $180 (likely for extra import charges). Not my absolute favorite, but I think it will be once I get used to having that metallic gray style on my desk again. (I had an SK-1510 for a long time with an OEM gray layout, and it was the first model I called a favorite) This is the only reasonable quality image I can find of the PS model aside from a handful of YouTube videos...

Yo, its me again! So i can quite find the maximum capacity for a IBM BR10i raid controller. I found a post on Amazon it supports 2TB maximum but is this the case? Its in an IBM AC1 4769 Server system running RHEL 7.7 Thanks in advance.

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There were rumors about Dr. Lisa Su leaving AMD and going to IBM. She has come forward and claimed that rumor is not true. This obviously has everyone speculating on why would she leave AMD at this point when it's doing so well. but then I started thinking about the other important VIP's who have left to work for other companies over the years like Ryan Shrout a tech journalist CEO joining Intel along with many other VIP moving to Intel. All these tech VIP migrations are leading me to speculate WHAT IF all the tech companies are secretly working together to ensure that none of them fail because they know competition is important for thriving businesses. What if they are intentionally moving the smartest minds to the companies that are hurting the most in order to bring those companies back up off the floor and get them back on their feet. Now that AMD has gotten back on its feet, everyone's flocking to Intel trying to save them from falling. and IBM has been declining in the market for the past 3 years so perhaps there is talk of moving tech VIP's over to IBM in order to help keep them afloat. At the end of the day we are all tech nerds who want to see great things happen with technology. We want to see innovation and improve performance staying cool and using less power! It wouldn't surprise me if the tech giants are working together to achieve the same goals using different methods! But that's just a theory, a crazy Terry theory, thanks for listening :P

I have an old IBM ThinkPad R52 running Windows XP Professional which I have been using as a spare computer. I noticed the hard drive was about to crap out as the laptop was running very slowly and the drive was making some very abnormal clicking sounds. Everything was working up until this point so I used Macrium Reflect to image the drive and bought another hard drive. Shortly after I had done this, the hard drive gave up and fully stopped working. Today I restored the image that I made of the old drive to the new one and the laptop booted up fine but was still running slower than usual. I thought that it would be a good idea to use the IBM Rescue and Recovery environment to restore the computer to its factory settings. I rebooted the PC and used F11 to boot into the recovery environment and it brought up a message which read 'Missing Operating System'. Browsing through the backup, all of the files for the recovery environment are on the hard drive but the computer cannot find them during boot. Please help!!!