Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog

In a conclusion to yesterdays post about a broken northbridge cooler in a HP DL140 G2, i got a replacement System Board shipped overnight by HP. Mostly because the customer decided that he didn’t need an On-Site carepak from HP.

So i got stuck with a probably refurbished systemboard, and instruction sheets on how to replace them. I’ve also made better pictures of the missing pin, and the whole replacement procedure. Unfortunately due to the digital camera which seems to be over 9000 years old, and the low light situation, the pictures weren’t that much better.

One thing that irked me though is what the HP rep said to me yesterday. He estimated shipping at “one or two weeks”, which is far too long for replacement parts of a still more or less modern server. On the other hand, the parts arrived today with overnight shipping from around the world. It seems that HP does better than their reps say.

Replacing the systemboard in a DL140 G2 is not as bad as one might think it is. While there are several screws to unscrew, and of course the processor replacement itself, i never had a problem during this procedure. Only one thing i wasn’t sure with - HP’s docs stated that i had to empty my entire syringe worth of thermo conductive paste onto the processor. I did that, and the processor temperature seems to be okay now.