HP ProLiant DL360G3 rebuttal... ;-)
    Don Bowman 
    don at sandvine.com
       
    Wed May  7 11:29:10 PDT 2003
    
    
  
From: Don Bowman [mailto:don at sandvine.com]
> 
> From: Holger Kipp [mailto:Holger.Kipp at alogis.com]
>  ...
> > 
> > BTW: about 13% (4 out of 30) of the shipped DL360G3 dual 
> xeon systems
> > had one heatsink not properly mounted (gave no problems 
> with W2K, but
> > FreeBSD SMP got ungraceful shutdowns after a few minutes). 
> Remounting
> > cpu-heatsinks helped :-)
BTW, this isn't common knowledge, but the 533MHz FSB XEON
needs a different clip than the 400MHz FSB XEON, the 
profile is slightly lower, and the older heatsink clip
doesn't hold tight enough.
--don
    
    
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