[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Phil Stracchino]

Lionel Peterson wrote:
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>> Subject: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives
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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."

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