SO I SAW THIS LISTING ON AUCTION AT LIKE 3AM BECAUSE I COULDNT SLEEP BECAUSE MY CAT MR WHISKERS WAS KNOCKING THINGS OFF THE SHELF AND I HAD OATMEAL FOR BREAKFAST THAT MORNING WITH BROWN SUGAR NOT THE WHITE KIND AND IT WAS RAINING OUTSIDE WHICH IS RARE FOR MAY HERE AND THE LISTING SAID NO POST E5-2680V2 DUAL SOCKET 32GB RAM FOR $12 AND I THOUGHT WELL THATS CHEAPER THAN THE SANDWICH I ATE FOR LUNCH WHICH WAS TURKEY NOT HAM AND I HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR A NEW BOX FOR MY PLEX SERVER BECAUSE THE OLD ONE KEPT OVERHEATING AND MR WHISKERS LIKES TO SIT ON IT SO I BOUGHT IT AND WHEN IT ARRIVED THE BOX WAS WET FROM THE RAIN BECAUSE THE MAILMAN LEFT IT ON THE PORCH AND I OPENED IT UP AND THERE WAS CORROSION EVERYWHERE ON THE BOARD GREEN STUFF AND I THOUGHT OH NO I WASTED TWELVE DOLLARS BUT THEN I REMEMBERED MY UNCLE HAD A SIMILAR PROBLEM WITH HIS OLD TRUCK BATTERY IN 1987 AND I CHECKED THE CMOS BATTERY AND IT WAS LEAKING ALL OVER THE PLACE SO I WENT TO THE DOLLAR STORE AND GOT A CR2032 FOR THREE DOLLARS AND PUT IT IN AND IT POSTED FIRST TRY AND I POSTED PICTURES HERE AND THEN THE SELLER MESSAGED ME BEGGING TO REVERSE THE SALE AND I SAID NO WAY I ALREADY INSTALLED PROXMOX AND MR WHISKERS IS SITTING ON IT RIGHT NOW PURRING
The 'broken' server that just needed a CMOS battery
Dual Xeon LGA1366 board, seller swore it was dead, turned out to be a bent pin I straightened with a mechanical pencil. They don't make them like that anymore—those old Supermicro boards could survive anything. Your E5-2680v2 is a workhorse. I ran one as my main render node until 2019, never skipped a beat. The corrosion cleanup must have been satisfying. Did you hit it with vinegar or isopropyl?
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