Internship – 50 Hours

The first 50 hours of my internship went very smoothly. There weren’t many troubles I had to face. First off, these first 50 hours were spent learning how to take a bunch of parts for the servers and assemble them. We worked on servers for Wawa, a bigger unit, so we were provided with an i7 9th Gen CPU with a fan, 2 sticks of RAM, a 250 GB SSD stick, an aftermarket network card, and 3 10 TB hard drives. We had to place the CPU and SSD into the motherboard and connect the SATA cables connecting the motherboard to the hard drives. These were provided to us, and we assembled the servers I learned all the wires that come out of the power supply and where they were to be placed on the MSI motherboard. There was a CPU issue that we had to troubleshoot and found out that the CPU was bent, so that had to be replaced. Any time a finished server did not power on in the initial test, we would go into the CPU, reseat the RAM and CPU, and then try again. If that did not work, we would test the power supply, and if that was the issue, we had to replace the power supply and plug all the power cables back into the motherboard. Once a server was finished, we then put the servers into a rack and plugged in with a LAN cable, HDMI, and the power cable. We were to update the BIOS of the motherboard and image the company’s software onto Ubuntu using a company flash drive. After all those servers were imaged, we packed them back into their original boxes and put them on a pallet to ship them off to the customers. To conclude my first 50 hours, I learned how to build a server from scratch, update the motherboards, image company software, and the production side of the business.

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