[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>
>Date: 2008/04/02 Wed AM 09:29:14 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

>Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>>> Subject: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives
>> 
>> <snip>
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>>> System diagnostic lights are very useful, but did they have to default  
>>> to the "OK" status being all four lights turned on?
>> 
>> As I recall, as power-up/self-test progresses, each light turns on and indicates successful testing of each major subcomponent.
>> 
>> Leaving all the lights on is "The Right Thing To Do" (IMHO), and in a tower config like this it makes sense to locate them on the front (as the back is not as accessible as in a rackmount server).
>
>One of my motherboards has an array of four diagnostic LEDs on it that 
>"count up" POST stages in binary.  0xF is "post succeeded, board is 
>operating normally."

Many Tyan MBs have two seven-segment LED displays for POST reporting - really suprised me the first time I built up a Tyan server board...

Lionel