Finally got a stubborn old server to boot after three days of trying

Last week, a small law firm brought in a 2012 Dell PowerEdge that wouldn't post, just beeping at me. I spent hours swapping RAM, checking the PSU, and finally found a single bent pin on the CPU socket I'd missed twice. Has anyone else had a similar fix that felt impossible until the very last check?

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kimr7411d ago

Spent a whole weekend on an old HP ProLiant that kept shutting down. I was convinced it was the power supply, but it turned out to be a tiny crack in the motherboard near a mounting post, only visible with a magnifying glass. The relief was unreal, lmao.

betty_wells11d ago

Man, that's how it always goes. The biggest headaches come from the smallest, dumbest things you'd never think to check.

lisa53111d ago

Ugh, my buddy had that with a hairline crack in a RAM slot.