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[crazydrve`]

Hello all,

I think the time has come to retire the Dell T5500, can anyone recommend a newer model?

 

[thesmokingman]

I found a pair of Precision 490s lost in storage in a relatives garage last year. Both are single cpu but dual socket, luckily they're running same cpus. I kind of forgot about them since I didn't have a floppy drive on hand. Then yesterday I managed to find a lost usb flobby drive and bam it had a working floppy disk inside, booyah. I guess I can start rehabbing a retro gaming build. I have a spare 660ti laying around here somewhere. I think its drivers support XP 64 and Vista. Hmm, time to dig thru dells driver site.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Sweet. I put in an offer for one of the 1650s, hopefully I can get that. won an auction for a 1650 for $100.

That's a solid deal given how prices are right now!

Thanks again for all the help with everything!

You're very welcome, glad to help!

As far as the fans, do you know if the 92mm fan would fit in the 90mm front fan case assembly?

Honestly don't know. I'm leaning toward no because the clearances are very precise in that chassis. It would be easy to measure if you took it all apart, then you could gauge more easily.

Hello all,

I think the time has come to retire the Dell T5500

Why?

can anyone recommend a newer model?

Depends on what you are looking for and what your budget is.

 

[KLiKzg]

Hello all,

I think the time has come to retire the Dell T5500, can anyone recommend a newer model?

What do you mean? Why?

 

[crazydrve`]

That's a solid deal given how prices are right now!


You're very welcome, glad to help!


Honestly don't know. I'm leaning toward no because the clearances are very precise in that chassis. It would be easy to measure if you took it all apart, then you could gauge more easily.


Why?


Depends on what you are looking for and what your budget is.

It's acting weird, not always boots. Etc. Still going through it, cleanup and checking for physical damage.

My budget was not ready for this.

Also wondering if time spent on it plus parts coykd be better spent on new tower

 

[lexluthermiester]

What do you mean? Why?

Why is it time to retire it? Only curious, meant no offense.

It's acting weird, not always boots. Etc. Still going through it, cleanup and checking for physical damage.

Gotcha.

My budget was not ready for this.

Fair enough.

 

[KLiKzg]

It's acting weird, not always boots. Etc. Still going through it, cleanup and checking for physical damage.

My budget was not ready for this.

Also wondering if time spent on it plus parts coykd be better spent on new tower

Did you ran MEMtest to make sure RAM is OK?
Or do you think the problem is with CPUs?
Or some other "connection" problem?

Maybe guys here can give you some advice & you can make it work again.

 

[crazydrve`]

Did you ran MEMtest to make sure RAM is OK?
Or do you think the problem is with CPUs?
Or some other "connection" problem?

Maybe guys here can give you some advice & you can make it work again.

So far I'm thinking has something to do with bios.

I will be going through it today. But also thinking if its time to upgrade.

 

[thesmokingman]

I got the 490 up. Ended up having to use a GT 710 card as it wouldn't boot with the 660ti, drats. Look at that dual 2c/4t and 8gb of ram. It's blazing!

 

[crazydrve`]

Why is it time to retire it? Only curious, meant no offense.


Gotcha.

Fair enough.

And there is no offense, been having weird issues for awhile. Not sure if it bios, power supply etc. I've spent lots in "keeping" it going. Lol.

Did you ran MEMtest to make sure RAM is OK?
Or do you think the problem is with CPUs?
Or some other "connection" problem?

Maybe guys here can give you some advice & you can make it work again.

memtest ran good, with dell diagnostics and memtest 5

I'm working on getting another power supply to see if that's the issue, and will do a complete teardown this weekend to see if I can notice anything.

 

[Cheese Burger Eddy]

What Sata PCEi Card should I get for my T7500? I want to OC using SetFSB, since it seems like fun, and I was told it bluescreens when booting from the onboard Sata ports. Currently the PC has 2, 1.5tb HDD, however I am probably moving those to my main PC and going to use an SSD for the OS/boot and a 500gb SSD or HDD extra storage.

 

[lexluthermiester]

What Sata PCEi Card should I get for my T7500? I want to OC using SetFSB, since it seems like fun, and I was told it bluescreens when booting from the onboard Sata ports.

You've lost me on that one. Never tried any of that.

 

[crazydrve`]

Does anyone here have a dell t620?

 

[Cheese Burger Eddy]

So my Xeon X5675's have arrived, my 6x4gb ram has arrived and last night, my U402f arrived! I Ordered the U402f "new" from Ebay and they sent me a heatsink that I assume was installed in a machine for 10 years, then the machine was put in a river for 2 months, they removed it, pressure washed the heatsink and shipped it.

It had unbelievable amounts of grime all over it, tons of tarnishing/corrosion all over the unit, fins where bent, the entire heatsink itself was bent etc.

I demanded a refund and got it in under 1 hour (almost like they knew it was heavily used) then proceeded to straighten everything and wet sand with 1500 grit the copper heatsink components carefully. It looks better but still lots of corrosion. Hopefully it works. When I was cleaning/drying the part, I used a blow drying to get any remnant of water in the fins (after compressed air) and the heatsink appeared to disperse that heat well. Now time to put this behemoth back together.


EDIT: the plan is to test the heatsink out. If it works as expected, I will use it. If it isn't as good, I will be buying a replacement. The refund can go towards additional upgrades for the machine, either another 6x4gb of ram, 6x8gb or the SSD Sata->PCIe plan I have.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Does anyone here have a dell t620?

Maybe ask your question and perhaps we can help even if we don't have one. Just a thought, always willing to help.

 

[Dillweed]

Hey all, purchased a Dell Precision T7810 from ebay with dual E5-2637v3, no video card or hard drive. I put in a ASUS Radeon HD 5450 and can't get anything on my monitor. It appears that everything is working on the computer, a usb keyboard shows activity via the capslock or numlock lights. But nothing on the screen. Any ideas as to what I need to do to get this working? I was wondering if these motherboards only work with quadro graphics cards. Is that the case?

Thanks for any suggestions you can send my way to get this beast working.

 

[lexluthermiester]

I was wondering if these motherboards only work with quadro graphics cards. Is that the case?

No, you should have a picture. Either the system board is faulty or the video card is faulty(assuming everything is connected properly).. Ebay link?

 

[Dillweed]

Here is the listing.

Dell Precision T7810 2x E5-2637v3 3.5GHz QC 32GB No HD Tower PC | eBay

Dell Precision T7810. This PC requires a video card as it has no onboard video. None installed or included. Unless otherwise stated, product manuals are not included but are usually viewable online from the manufacturer.

www.ebay.com

and here is the video card

ASUS Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 64-bit PCIE 2.1 x16 Video Graphics Card EAH5450 | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ASUS Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 64-bit PCIE 2.1 x16 Video Graphics Card EAH5450 at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

 

[lexluthermiester]

Here is the listing.

Dell Precision T7810 2x E5-2637v3 3.5GHz QC 32GB No HD Tower PC | eBay

Dell Precision T7810. This PC requires a video card as it has no onboard video. None installed or included. Unless otherwise stated, product manuals are not included but are usually viewable online from the manufacturer.

www.ebay.com

and here is the video card

ASUS Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 64-bit PCIE 2.1 x16 Video Graphics Card EAH5450 | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for ASUS Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3 64-bit PCIE 2.1 x16 Video Graphics Card EAH5450 at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

The seller rating look good. Have you tested the video card in another PC to see if it posts? Also have you tried the card in all of the PCIe slots in the the system. You should be using the one closest to the CPUs.

 

[Vendor]

I got the 490 up. Ended up having to use a GT 710 card as it wouldn't boot with the 660ti, drats. Look at that dual 2c/4t and 8gb of ram. It's blazing!

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i heard 64 bit xp wasn't good and had major bugs, is that not true anymore? i might try it on my spare pc which is just biting the dust

 

[lexluthermiester]

i heard 64 bit xp wasn't good and had major bugs, is that not true anymore?

It was never true to begin with. The problems were related to compatibility. In it's current most updated form it's rock solid.

 

[hat]

I used xp64 for a while back in the day. It wasn't bad at all from what I remember. Everything I used to do on xp32 worked the same on xp64.

 

[KLiKzg]

I got the 490 up. Ended up having to use a GT 710 card as it wouldn't boot with the 660ti, drats. Look at that dual 2c/4t and 8gb of ram. It's blazing!

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Windows x64 SP2? What Service Pack 2?

There's none listed at Microsoft Catalog Update site.

 

[thesmokingman]

Windows x64 SP2? What Service Pack 2?

There's none listed at Microsoft Catalog Update site.

SP2 is listed as Server 2003, for the server and xp 64.

 

[crazydrve`]

Maybe ask your question and perhaps we can help even if we don't have one. Just a thought, always willing to help.

Hello @lexluthermiester

I am getting a new server, the T5500 is just giving me too many issues. I was readying that the Dell T620 is a 50/50 chance of getting a video card to work without the GPU enablement kit.

I am curious if anyone has one or knows about the T620?

Thanks