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IBM System x3650 M2 Restoration: Pt 3 (Finale)
IBM System x3650 M2 Restoration: Pt 3 (Finale)
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Our final attempt at restoring this really cool IBM x3650 M2 server from 2010. This one is ADP-branded and was used to run dealership management software!
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Something I've learned from watching Way Too Much™of "Adrian's Digital Basement" is to check if the 12v and/or 5v lines are shorted to ground and to check if any tantalum capacitors are shorted (apparently, they're often not needed and just be clipped out). To be fair, Adrian is working on computers from the 80s, but I gotta' imagine a lot of that still holds true today.
Hello fine sir, can you add powerful video card and try some games for us?
clabretro, i ADORE your content, im starting to get into old computers and equipment in general and your videos are informative, super high quality, and overall very good!!
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You stuck it on the wall. Nice.
Amazing content, keep it up!
I don't know where am I but this guy is really cool and likes ibm as i also do
could I get the old mobo?
I have an X3650 M3 sitting in my basement. I don't use it anymore as I built a new server. But it was a good server.
I love the way the server looks on the wall that's a great idea ,great video sir
This is nuts, albeit not a proper resurrection since you changed the board, it's still cool to see those drives spin up and the ADP stuff.
Judging by what's on there it's clear each of these "endpoint" servers just mirrored a huge amount of the software/contents required for client side, though it's the same for quite a few DMS systems and other platforms too since it helps to localize things for maximum resiliency and ensures that there isn't too much load on the main core hosts.
Now, a lot of DMS systems are "cloud hosted" by a licensed provider and it's really hard to get things from them, a lot of them are super outdated too because they won't update to newer renditions of the platform without new contracts and a hefty price tag!
Congratulations!
SOAP is actually quite nice to work with (I've spend a lot of time with it), as the URL hardly never changes it is the payload which tells what to access (nice when it comes to programming). IBM and Compaq made some nice stuff, easy to access. Sadly also very expensive.
The LSI is actually quite nice, you use it to configured a HW raid, then wait many hours for it to sync and then you'd install your OS. I installed Netware 3.12 / 4.x and 5.x on a few of these.
RSA is 2fa (RSA Tokens) – you'll never get access without having the correct token. The disks might be encrypted which makes it impossible to access the data.
Hey 🙂 I don't know if that DMS thing was a joke but I know that term from demilitarized zone or newer document managemend system.
web ui with all the activeX applets was fascinating, too bad you couldn't login
Love the great vids keep it coming!!!!
I wonder if a old version of kon-boot would get you a root prompt, I used it about that era of 2.6 Linux, you will have to find a old copy as now it’s commercial and windows/mac
you might want to boot the server from a linux live disc and then try to reset the root password through that
Thanks for finally cracking this one. Having worked on IBM kit most of my life I particularly enjoy vids that show the kit. Hopefully you can get some more in the future
Fix it , add a plexiglas cover and run it up on the wall ?
maybe not in a office due to sound …..
the ADP os probably boots, but the reason it "hangs" is because the console= kernel flag is set to ttyS0, which sounds a lot like serial. huh, looks like it booted anyways. fun.
Great to see the machine up and running at last. 🙂 The wall mount is definitely how you should run it.
In totally unrelated news I accidentally bought a Sun Fire T2000. I have no idea what I'm going to do with it.
I worked in a recycling facility and I always snagged the drives and ran a deep scan on them and some of the stuff ive seen still shocks me