IBM xSeries 226 eServer
Posted by ThatSmittyDude@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 12 comments
I found this machine locally. Runs great after some tinkering. Mostly just had to re-seat the RAM. Currently has a Xeon [1C 2T I think, could be dual core], 4GB DDR2, ATI Radeon 7000 built into the motherboard, 2 514W redundant power supplies and I have Arch installed on a 36GB Seagate SCSI hard drive for testing. It's huge, LOUD, hot, and quirky but I love it so far.
james4765@reddit
We have a fair number of this era of IBM box in the sub-basement, I'm trying to get our infosec guys to lend their weight to purging all of them.
s1ckn3s5@reddit
I also have one and put solaris on it :p
regular_german_guy@reddit
Looks a lot like the iSeries I saw a couple of weeks in the server room of a customer. In production...
ThatSmittyDude@reddit (OP)
That's awesome
DeepDayze@reddit
Try to find the latest BIOS for this system as well
ThatSmittyDude@reddit (OP)
Yeah the machine looks to be built in 05. Bois is 04. I gotta find the flash
HighKing81@reddit
And it's got at least one pregnant capacitor! 😃
ThatSmittyDude@reddit (OP)
There's a couple. I gotta order some
DeepDayze@reddit
If you are handy with a soldering iron, swapping caps is easy and just have to watch the polarity.
AudioVid3o@reddit
Keeps getting weirder and weirder, first there are 2 power supplies, then there is a Mobility Radeon GPU in it, then finally you installed Arch Linux on it (🤮)
ThatSmittyDude@reddit (OP)
Lmao. Yeah I'm gonna toss a better gpu in at some point. And it's gonna end up with FreeBSD or openBSD.
f2simon@reddit
Looks like gpu from t41 ThinkPad)