Replacing IBM X3650 (7979-C3U) Planar (FRU: 43W8250/43W0331)

For those of you who may have followed along on my original post of me troubleshooting an IBM X3650, I found a system planar for $20 (lol). Just arrived today, with shuttle, which is awesome. I’ll be putting this in the server chassis today and hopefully getting a successful boot.

Left is the new board and right is the old.

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Update 5/12

After being out of the office with other tasks, I finally had some time this morning to get this swapped out.

Everything went well with the exception of the memory. I had to put in 2x1GB sticks in DIMM slots 1 and 4 as the previously installed 4GB modules were not working and I was finally able to get a POST.

The BIOS at post is 1.03 and ServeRAID 8k-l initialized. I do need to update the BIOS as well as ServeRAID BIOS. The board I swapped from was at BIOS 1.19 and ServeRAID BIOS was at 17003.

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