Anybody upgraded an O2 from R5K to R10K?

Hi,
I was wondering if anybody had upgraded O2 R5K to R10K... I know it doesn't look like just a simple swap of motherboards, but I'm curious to know what really has to be done to accomplish this?

UNIX Musuem <unixmuseum@verizon.com> wrote in message news:<20040304083121.1ef40e44.unixmuseum@verizon.com>...[color=blue]
> Hi,
> I was wondering if anybody had upgraded O2 R5K to R10K... I know it doesn't look like just a simple swap of motherboards, but I'm curious to know what really has to be done to accomplish this?[/color]

I've done it (sort of). I had an R10K with a defective motherboard.
Also had an R5K 180 that was collecting dust. Out of the two, I got
one working R10K system.

The differences:

The R10K Chassis uses up one of the spaces that holds an extra hard
disk in the R5k. I doubt that you can just hack the metal plate out of
an R5K chassis to make room for the larger processor/heat sync. I
could be wrong.

There are two risers that go between the processor and the
motherboard. These are longer on an R10K unit. They are removable, but
are attached to the motherboard, not the processor. Of course the
"platform" that supports the processor is different too, but there are
holes in the right places on an R5K motherboard.

The PCI card holder has a longer connector to reach past the higher
heat sync.

The similarities:

All the plastic skins, front plane, memory and the motherboard appear
to be identical. I've been running the "merged" system for at least 6
monts without any problems.

So... if you're thinking of buying an R10K processor off of ebay and
just dumping it in your R5K chassis... not gonna work :(

If you'd like to see some pictures of the two, e-mail me.

Dave

In article <b3b5b0d1.0403061945.2ac04afc@posting.google.com>,
gotroot2003 <dgerard@colba.net> wrote:[color=blue]
>The R10K Chassis uses up one of the spaces that holds an extra hard
>disk in the R5k. I doubt that you can just hack the metal plate out of
>an R5K chassis to make room for the larger processor/heat sync. I
>could be wrong.
>[/color]

I think that you can just do this hack. A while ago somebody mentioned
that there is an O2 chassis version where the metal plate is removable with
a screw on the bottom of the case.

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[email]dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca[/email] (David Evans) wrote in message news:<c2e7uc$c4f$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>...[color=blue]
> In article <b3b5b0d1.0403061945.2ac04afc@posting.google.com>,
> gotroot2003 <dgerard@colba.net> wrote:[color=green]
> >The R10K Chassis uses up one of the spaces that holds an extra hard
> >disk in the R5k. I doubt that you can just hack the metal plate out of
> >an R5K chassis to make room for the larger processor/heat sync. I
> >could be wrong.
> >[/color]
>
> I think that you can just do this hack. A while ago somebody mentioned
> that there is an O2 chassis version where the metal plate is removable with
> a screw on the bottom of the case.[/color]


Maybe, but the drives and audio module are sitting on a platform that
is about 1/4" higher than the base where the motherboard sled sits. On
the R10K chassis this platform is the width of two drives (about
2.5"), on the R5K it's three drives wide (3.75"). I have a feeling
that this platform may interfere with the PCI board or the Processor
if one was trying to cram an R10K module into an R5K chassis. But, if
you're hacking out metal anyway, a little more won't make a difference
;)

You'll still have to get past the obstacle of the riser pins between
the processor and motherboard as well as the extended PCI adapter. I'm
assuming that the original poster was hoping to swap out just the
processor module, not the whole motherboard tray assembly.

With the current prices of O2's on ebay, i doubt this project is worth
the effort.

On 7 Mar 2004 12:51:06 -0800
[email]dgerard@colba.net[/email] (gotroot2003) wrote:
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> [email]dfevans@bcr10.uwaterloo.ca[/email] (David Evans) wrote in message news:<c2e7uc$c4f$1@rumours.uwaterloo.ca>...[color=green]
> > In article <b3b5b0d1.0403061945.2ac04afc@posting.google.com>,
> > gotroot2003 <dgerard@colba.net> wrote:[color=darkred]
> > >The R10K Chassis uses up one of the spaces that holds an extra hard
> > >disk in the R5k. I doubt that you can just hack the metal plate out of
> > >an R5K chassis to make room for the larger processor/heat sync. I
> > >could be wrong.
> > >[/color]
> >
> > I think that you can just do this hack. A while ago somebody mentioned
> > that there is an O2 chassis version where the metal plate is removable with
> > a screw on the bottom of the case.[/color]
>
>
> Maybe, but the drives and audio module are sitting on a platform that
> is about 1/4" higher than the base where the motherboard sled sits. On
> the R10K chassis this platform is the width of two drives (about
> 2.5"), on the R5K it's three drives wide (3.75"). I have a feeling
> that this platform may interfere with the PCI board or the Processor
> if one was trying to cram an R10K module into an R5K chassis. But, if
> you're hacking out metal anyway, a little more won't make a difference
> ;)
>
> You'll still have to get past the obstacle of the riser pins between
> the processor and motherboard as well as the extended PCI adapter. I'm
> assuming that the original poster was hoping to swap out just the
> processor module, not the whole motherboard tray assembly.
>
> With the current prices of O2's on ebay, i doubt this project is worth
> the effort.[/color]

Well, I knew the chassis were different, but was hoping for an answer of the type "unscrew this, remove that"... I do not want to hack metal out, I'll keep my R5K...
Thanks for the info