Quote from: born2print on February 01, 2016, 01:31:48 PM
Rampart, we gotta white male, 45 to 50 years of age...
BP is... HOLY COW!!! SEND A CHOPPER!

Hold up on that chopper. It (the cost) will kill you before the heart attack does. A friend of mine just had to be airlifted from one hospital to another one 45 miles away. Total cost of the flight: $33,000.

Quote from: Farabomb on February 01, 2016, 01:24:22 PMYou have new tech on your TIFF shooter. I'm running NT here.

And a EOL prinergy server

and an, I'm assuming, EOL Mac pro tower.

The boss still wants me to wait "for the next updated OS" to upgrade.

He's gotten 2 laptops and 2 new phones since I've upgraded. His computer skill tops out at the big button turns it on. It's ok, soon my heart is just gonna pop from all the workarounds we have to do to get plates out and preflight flies.

Hahaha. Our Heidelberg CIP3 server was NT 4.0 as well. I finally killed that s.o.b. machine about 4 years ago. Press never used the profiles anyways. We're starting to get painted in a corner though. CC 2015 requires 10.9 or above and we're running 10.8, so I am assuming that CC2016 will require 10.10 or higher. However, our RIP is the last version of Nexus that was written (10.1.3 from Feb 2014) and you can only go as high as 10.9. **Doomed**

Quote from: Joe on February 01, 2016, 02:13:27 PM

Quote from: born2print on February 01, 2016, 01:31:48 PM
Rampart, we gotta white male, 45 to 50 years of age...
BP is... HOLY COW!!! SEND A CHOPPER!

Hold up on that chopper. It (the cost) will kill you before the heart attack does. A friend of mine just had to be airlifted from one hospital to another one 45 miles away. Total cost of the flight: $33,000.

Great, when I go to the doc tomorrow and they take my BP and it's in the 200's again (like it was this AM, it's in the 180's now) and they tell me to go to the ER, fuck you, admit me to the damn hospital already.

Quote from: andyfest on February 01, 2016, 02:39:33 PMHahaha. Our Heidelberg CIP3 server was NT 4.0 as well. I finally killed that s.o.b. machine about 4 years ago.

Our CIP3 server just gave up the ghost today. I am not trying to piece this POS together either! I asked boss for all new PC, then get Heidi / Komori out here with latest software for fresh install from scratch (please)

Quote from: born2print on February 01, 2016, 02:57:34 PM

Quote from: andyfest on February 01, 2016, 02:39:33 PMHahaha. Our Heidelberg CIP3 server was NT 4.0 as well. I finally killed that s.o.b. machine about 4 years ago.

Our CIP3 server just gave up the ghost today. I am not trying to piece this POS together either! I asked boss for all new PC, then get Heidi / Komori out here with latest software for fresh install from scratch (please)

ours did this about a month ago.
Heidelberg gave me a quote that would choke a horse... (upgraded software to run on new os, plus monthly "subscription"= )

got a new box, loaded win 7, got a new dongle for $1000 (old dongle ran on win xp), works like a champ.

Only took three weeks to do.

Noted! Thanks David!
te-he... only 3 weeks...

My PC server shit the bed over the weekend -- came in yesterday to find it off and when I booted it up, got a warning that the last shut-down was due to "a thermal event".

Our repair guy tried his darndest, but was unable to resurrect the machine, even when he transferred the old hard drive into a different PC tower shell (at which point I began using "Frankenstein's Monster" analogies)...

Although I had only been using this PC as a server for four years (since its predecessor gave up the ghost), the PC itself was 13 years old and still ran on Windows XP!  


Now we have to figure out if the machine truly needs to be replaced or if we can do without it, seeing as how a lot of the stuff we kept it around for (platemaker, RIP processor) are no longer in the picture...

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

Quote from: Fontaholic on February 02, 2016, 02:38:43 PMMy PC server shit the bed over the weekend -- came in yesterday to find it off and when I booted it up, got a warning that the last shut-down was due to "a thermal event".

Our repair guy tried his darndest, but was unable to resurrect the machine, even when he transferred the old hard drive into a different PC tower shell (at which point I began using "Frankenstein's Monster" analogies)...

Although I had only been using this PC as a server for four years (since its predecessor gave up the ghost), the PC itself was 13 years old and still ran on Windows XP!


Now we have to figure out if the machine truly needs to be replaced or if we can do without it, seeing as how a lot of the stuff we kept it around for (platemaker, RIP processor) are no longer in the picture...

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

Those old XP machines can last a very long time. Though I am dreading when our PC running XP for our RIP dies. It has pretty much been on for 10 years straight, with the odd restart now and then.

I have 3 of my RIPs on XP boxes. They are the most stable machines in the shop. Same thing, wonderings, Dreading my Raster Blaster server dying.

You've all jinxed yourself. They will all DIE before the week is up! :evil:

Quote from: Joe on February 02, 2016, 03:15:18 PMYou've all jinxed yourself. They will all DIE before the week is up! :evil:

I figured once Microsoft stopped all support for XP, it was only a matter of time before they sent out a final "upgrade" to the software which would cause it to self-destruct within a randomly-determined amount of time...

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

Quick, toss some salt over your right shoulder!

Quote from: Fontaholic on February 02, 2016, 02:38:43 PMMy PC server shit the bed over the weekend -- came in yesterday to find it off and when I booted it up, got a warning that the last shut-down was due to "a thermal event".

Our repair guy tried his darndest, but was unable to resurrect the machine, even when he transferred the old hard drive into a different PC tower shell (at which point I began using "Frankenstein's Monster" analogies)...

Although I had only been using this PC as a server for four years (since its predecessor gave up the ghost), the PC itself was 13 years old and still ran on Windows XP!


Now we have to figure out if the machine truly needs to be replaced or if we can do without it, seeing as how a lot of the stuff we kept it around for (platemaker, RIP processor) are no longer in the picture...

Cheers,
John the Fontaholic

Swapping drives will only work if the motherboard and cards are almost identical. If the core drivers are different, it's going to throw a fit. This is only of it's the system drive, data drives shouldn't be an issue.

It's it's old I'm betting the thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink is dried up. It's also possible the heatsink is full of dust and/or the fan is dead. You can try and apply new paste and/or clean out the dust bunnies from the heatsink and you might be able to bring it back to life.

Does the inside of it look like this?

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Holy crap. Looks like we should see a tiny indiana Jones trying to span the PCI slots.