Burst Capacitor on Domain Controller's Motherboard

[phuschnickens]

So last night my domain controller's motherboard died b/c of a burst capacitor on the motherboard (10 year old motherboard). I bought all new parts for a new motherboard, but what do I do about active directory, etc. I think I've had a little experience with this and a domain really hates it when you just discard an old DC and throw in brand new one without moving Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, FSMO roles, and maybe other stuff.

Please help. Thank you.

phu

[primesuspect]

wtf goes on over there......

If it's Win2K3 still, you can do a repair install, I'm pretty sure you can just drop the new mobo in and boot up and go.

[Cyclonite]

^Definitely would be your safest bet. Trying to make AD not want to do stuff with that DC anymore would be horrible.

[phuschnickens]

well, it's my apartment, not cathedral. and the answer is raves mostly and standard 10 person and up simultaneous lovemaking. still not sure what caused a burst capacitor though. probably blew it's load from watching all of the lovemaking. it's win2k. repair install option there?

[phuschnickens]

how dumb is it to disconnect all devices from the domain and start over that way... i mean, i only have 3 computers, a printer and an airport express that will be permanently connected.

[primesuspect]

you'll have to migrate profiles on each of those three computers and manually unjoin them from the domain

It's a pain in the dick, no lie.

Win2k = you're boned.

[phuschnickens]

you'll have to migrate profiles on each of those three computers and manually unjoin them from the domain

It's a pain in the dick, no lie.

Win2k = you're boned.


poop

[phuschnickens]

UPDATE:

popped the server's original hard drive into an extra pc, ran a repair install as suggested and everything is peachy... kind of. I mean it's slow and I don't trust it, so I put the new box together with the new parts I bought from newegg and I'm gonna install server2k3 on it... but i think it's good enough to transfer AD and stuff

[primesuspect]

get it done quickly!

[phuschnickens]

really? you think the fact that it's so slow means that it's about to start failing?

[Cyclonite]

No telling what could happen. I wouldn't risk it with a DC though. :)

[phuschnickens]

hmmm... maybe i'll do that tonight instead of that thing i usually do at night

[Leonardo]

It's a pain in the dick, no lie.

Consider trying to work with the other 10 fingers.