Hi. I am doing a new NAS build with a supermicro X9DR7-TF+ motherboard in a SC846 case with two 1200W gold PSUs and a E5-2609 CPU in socket 1, and 4x8GB of ECC DDR3 1600 memory installed in the proper slots.
Everything looks good, but the board won't POST and output any video after power on. The IPMI jack lights up and shows traffic, as do the LAN ports, and this is displayed on the front panel network lights. The fans spin up to high after a brief period of time, and I get a single short beep at start, which the manual says the board is ready to boot.
The IPMI doesn't appear to issue a DHCP ask, and IPMIview on a machine connected to the same LAN doesn't find it, but does find another supermicro motherboard in another server on the same network..
The only oddity is that the red SAS Fault LED is on, and even after I removed the cables to the builtin SAS2 expander, it stays on. What could cause this indication, and could it be related to the lack of video output? I can't find any documentation on why this LED should be red or what it means.
No PCIE cards are installed, and the system does the same thing whether or not a USB drive is present in the system.
I have a KVM switch hooked up to the system, but the port that is being used is the same port that was used before by a different system and it works fine. At boot, the KVM port blanks, and then goes back to idle, so I think something is connected.
I have pulled all but one RAM stick, and tried non-ecc sticks as well, but there is no change in behavior.
Anyone have any idea as to what's going on?
thanks!
Mike
Everything looks good, but the board won't POST and output any video after power on. The IPMI jack lights up and shows traffic, as do the LAN ports, and this is displayed on the front panel network lights. The fans spin up to high after a brief period of time, and I get a single short beep at start, which the manual says the board is ready to boot.
The IPMI doesn't appear to issue a DHCP ask, and IPMIview on a machine connected to the same LAN doesn't find it, but does find another supermicro motherboard in another server on the same network..
The only oddity is that the red SAS Fault LED is on, and even after I removed the cables to the builtin SAS2 expander, it stays on. What could cause this indication, and could it be related to the lack of video output? I can't find any documentation on why this LED should be red or what it means.
No PCIE cards are installed, and the system does the same thing whether or not a USB drive is present in the system.
I have a KVM switch hooked up to the system, but the port that is being used is the same port that was used before by a different system and it works fine. At boot, the KVM port blanks, and then goes back to idle, so I think something is connected.
I have pulled all but one RAM stick, and tried non-ecc sticks as well, but there is no change in behavior.
Anyone have any idea as to what's going on?
thanks!
Mike