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PCs (desktops)
bluey
Provenance
ADC purchased at VT auction (part of set of 2 for $34 total) in Feb. 2025.
Specs
Unless otherwise noted, components came with the PC as purchased.
CPU
2x Intel Xeon e5-2630 v3
8 cores, 16 threads (virtual cores) each: 32 virtual cores total
Memory
32 GB DDR4 ECC RAM (4x 8 GB sticks); 8 slots total (so 4 free)
Storage
Main drive: SATA SSD
240 GB SSD (/dev/sda) holds:
- / (root) (/dev/sda1; 146 GB) and
- /home (/dev/sda3; 46 GB) partitions,
- and a swap partition (/dev/sda4; 26.9 GB).
Secondary drive: 2TB SATA HDD
Seagate Barracuda 2TB purchased end of February 2025 (2025-02).
Installed in bluey on 2025-03-02.
Formatted to ext4 using gnome-disks.
Named volume dbox_backup
sudo blkid output:
/dev/sdb: LABEL="dbox_backup" UUID="b7af4fd2-c25a-42d5-be23-8455d26e5a0f" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
Added to /etc/fstab:
# Added by adc 2025-03-02 UUID=b7af4fd2-c25a-42d5-be23-8455d26e5a0f /media/dbox_backup auto rw,user,auto 0 0
Older Dropbox backup HDD
Maybe purchased in 2020? Seagate Barracuda 2TB.
Also contains photos from 2011, 2012, and backups of older computers.
Contents of HDD with UUID beginning with bb5347b0
2025-02-25 adc added to /etc/fstab:
UUID=bb5347b0-f19e-4f70-864a-e0cae093805c /media/home2TB auto rw,user,auto 0 0
adc removed this HDD on 2025-03-02.
Power Supply
685W PSU (externally removable)
nVidia drivers
anthony@bluey:xorg.conf.d$ sudo ubuntu-drivers install –gpgpu udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. udevadm hwdb is deprecated. Use systemd-hwdb instead. nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04 Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree… Done Reading state information… Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libnvidia-common-550 libnvidia-egl-wayland1 libnvidia-extra-550 libnvidia-fbc1-550 libnvidia-gl-550 nvidia-firmware-550-550.120 nvidia-prime nvidia-settings screen-resolution-extra
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-570-server libnvidia-compute-570-server linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic nvidia-compute-utils-570-server nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15 nvidia-kernel-common-570-server nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libnvidia-cfg1-550 libnvidia-compute-550 libnvidia-decode-550 libnvidia-encode-550 linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.11.0-19-generic linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.11.0-21-generic linux-modules-nvidia-550-generic-hwe-24.04 nvidia-compute-utils-550 nvidia-driver-550 nvidia-kernel-common-550 nvidia-kernel-source-550 nvidia-utils-550 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-550
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libnvidia-cfg1-570-server libnvidia-compute-570-server linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04 nvidia-compute-utils-570-server nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15 nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open nvidia-kernel-common-570-server nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 13 to remove and 14 not upgraded. Need to get 128 MB of archives. After this operation, 138 MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 libnvidia-cfg1-570-server amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [157 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 libnvidia-compute-570-server amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [48.3 MB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15 amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [65.5 MB] Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-kernel-common-570-server amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [127 kB] Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic amd64 6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1 [6,523 kB] Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04 amd64 6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1 [6,334 B] Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-compute-utils-570-server amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [124 kB] Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [6,734 kB] Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted amd64 nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open amd64 570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4 [10.6 kB] Fetched 128 MB in 27s (4,788 kB/s) (Reading database … 257577 files and directories currently installed.) Removing nvidia-driver-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing libnvidia-cfg1-550:amd64 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing nvidia-utils-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing libnvidia-encode-550:amd64 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing libnvidia-decode-550:amd64 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.11.0-19-generic (6.11.0-19.19~24.04.1+1) … linux-image-nvidia-6.11.0-19-generic: removing .ko files Removing linux-modules-nvidia-550-generic-hwe-24.04 (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … Removing linux-modules-nvidia-550-6.11.0-21-generic (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … linux-image-nvidia-6.11.0-21-generic: removing .ko files Removing nvidia-compute-utils-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of nvidia-persistenced.service changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units. Removing nvidia-kernel-common-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Removing nvidia-kernel-source-550 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Removing libnvidia-compute-550:amd64 (550.120-0ubuntu0.24.04.1) … Selecting previously unselected package libnvidia-cfg1-570-server:amd64. (Reading database … 256946 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack …/0-libnvidia-cfg1-570-server_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking libnvidia-cfg1-570-server:amd64 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package libnvidia-compute-570-server:amd64. Preparing to unpack …/1-libnvidia-compute-570-server_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking libnvidia-compute-570-server:amd64 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15. Preparing to unpack …/2-nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-kernel-common-570-server. Preparing to unpack …/3-nvidia-kernel-common-570-server_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking nvidia-kernel-common-570-server (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic. Preparing to unpack …/4-linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic_6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1_amd64.deb … Unpacking linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04. Preparing to unpack …/5-linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04_6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1_amd64.deb … Unpacking linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04 (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-compute-utils-570-server. Preparing to unpack …/6-nvidia-compute-utils-570-server_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking nvidia-compute-utils-570-server (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open. Preparing to unpack …/7-nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Selecting previously unselected package nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open. Preparing to unpack …/8-nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open_570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4_amd64.deb … Unpacking nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up libnvidia-cfg1-570-server:amd64 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up nvidia-kernel-source-570-server-open (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up libnvidia-compute-570-server:amd64 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up nvidia-compute-utils-570-server (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … info: The home dir /nonexistent you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory
info: Selecting UID from range 100 to 999 …
info: Selecting GID from range 100 to 999 … info: Adding system user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 119) … info: Adding new group `nvidia-persistenced' (GID 125) … info: Adding new user `nvidia-persistenced' (UID 119) with group `nvidia-persistenced' … info: Not creating `/nonexistent'. Setting up nvidia-firmware-570-server-570.86.15 (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up nvidia-kernel-common-570-server (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Setting up nvidia-headless-no-dkms-570-server-open (570.86.15-0ubuntu0.24.04.4) … Setting up linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-6.11.0-21-generic (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … Setting up linux-modules-nvidia-570-server-open-generic-hwe-24.04 (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.39-0ubuntu8.4) … Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) … Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.142ubuntu25.5) … update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.11.0-21-generic I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda4 I: (UUID=cd011a3d-c184-4208-8575-514d04e29285) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. Processing triggers for linux-image-6.11.0-21-generic (6.11.0-21.21~24.04.1+1) … /etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.11.0-21-generic I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda4 I: (UUID=cd011a3d-c184-4208-8575-514d04e29285) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. /etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub: Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub' Generating grub configuration file … Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.11.0-21-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.11.0-21-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.11.0-19-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-6.11.0-19-generic Found memtest86+ 64bit EFI image: /boot/memtest86+x64.efi Warning: os-prober will not be executed to detect other bootable partitions. Systems on them will not be added to the GRUB boot configuration. Check GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER documentation entry. Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings … done
Nathaniel's gaming Windows PC
(Also ADC's “old bluey” – Linux PC formerly named bluey – same model.)
Specs
Memory
16 GB
HyperX HX316C10FBK2/16
16GB (8GB 1G x 64-Bit x 2 pcs.)
DDR3-1600 CL10 240-Pin DIMM Kit


