ok, update on server, the mOTHERBOARD went out and it burned up one of the two capactiors on the board, it was mostly a solid cap board but there were 2 non solid.
So it seems it took the CPU with it when that happened, as that was the lone item I moved to the new hardware since it was more powerful than what was installed.
Right now, an FSCK is running on the file system, and going quite fast. After this is done I have to reconfigure the networks and then move it back to the rack where it belongs, as I moved all to the workbench where I have more room, tools and parts at hand. I am going to bring it up short term on workbench to ensure settings on network good (since new NICs=new settings for the configs), then once up, will do a proper shutdown and move it to the rack and bring up.