"Ryan Nichols" <rnichols430@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9
> fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that
> 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago.
Unless you have many hundreds of servers I would not expect that failure
rate from the cheapest 'free with purchase of CPU' motherboards. (assuming
they were not returns. Never buy a returned motherboard.)
Are you using ESD protection?
Seriously. I worked at one place where we bought SuperMicro SuperServers
and assembled them ourselves. About 1 in 3 were bad before being
put in production, and the ones that we did get to production had weird
problems like failed NIC cards months later.
I put in a strict anti-static regime (grounded conductive mats on the floor,
the table and grounded foot and wrist straps) after that, we built
another 70 servers. Only one failed, and they were rock-solid once in
production.
granted, the static problem at this office was noticeable- you would
walk across the room and touch something grounded and get zapped. But
you can kill a motherboard with a much smaller ESD than you can feel
But being overly paranoid during assembly provably results in fewer pages
in the middle of the night later on.
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