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Hi everyone, I'm in the process of buying a HP ML 350 gen 9 tower server. This one has SFF bays, which kinda bugs me as 2.5" high capacity hdd are more expansive than their larger version. After browsing on r/homelab, I read about the fact that the ML series can have additional drive cages added...

supermicro h12ssl-i code 63 hi i have a supermicro h12ssl-i with a epyc 7402 that all of a sudden does not boot past code 63, i removed all devices and tried several memory sticks only on C1 as per the manual. any advice on how to trouble shoot this?

Hello, I have 4x Intel d7-p5510 U.2 ssds and l want to connect them to my AsRock Romed8-2t motherboard which has gen4 pcie x16 slots and 2x Oculink connectors. Would prefer to keep the ssds in one bundle i.e pcie adapter, but would settle for other options if there is no such reliable adapter...

Hi everyone! Sorry in advance if this is out there already. I'm sure someone has posted something similar but I have some specific help that I'm looking for! Also sorry if this is the wrong area! Anyways! I am looking to build several bomb proof routers. I am fairly competent when it comes to...

My Dell R520 mysteriously stopped turning on. I’ve tried reseating all of the cables/ram/cpu/risers and it hasn’t fixed anything, reset cmos and put a new battery. Please see the attached pictures for more information. Photos https://albums.memento.com/side11262

my system gets stuck on initializing and I am 99% sure that it's the CPU as it works with 7552 just fine. The board is ASUS KMPA-U16 and update to the latest version BIOS has not helped, thoughts? I tried a few combos of RAM sticks and that has not helped, I bought this CPU as used and in...

Hello, Recently got into homelabbing and put together my first server. Only thing left is the storage (which between the U.2/U.3 options, RAID configurations and file system types took as long to research as the initial server build like damn how many things are there to learn hahaha). Budget...

Hi there STH, Im trying to decide on an efficent Server/NAS setup for my home, I’ve been going around in circles and finaly I’ve decided I need to engage others with more experience than myself. My goal is to host SMB shares, Plex, Sonar, Radar, Jellyseer and Home assistant OS. Currently im...

Hi! I've recently purchased H11DSI-NT motherboard with 2x amd epyc 7551 installed. I run it with 8 sticks of RAM installed (I've tried different configurations as per manual with no result) JPG1 is set to the `enable` position (as per user manual) LED3 is green and I can access an IPMI but...

I'm nearly finished with building out a Dell T430. I'm new to Proxmox and servers in general, getting familiar with it but finding it difficult to locate the various logs to find why it's randomly shutting down. It SEEMS the only common denominator I've been able to find between the...

Hello people, this is my first post on here. As the title implies i need help updating a few Samsung PM893 ssds in 240GB and 480GB capacity. Firmware version for all of them is: JXTC103Q as far as i remember. If i try flashing am i going to brick them? I followed the documentation and...

Greetings everyone, So, I am currently running two servers today. The first one is running Proxmox as main system. On it i run four virtual machines. CPU : Ryzen 7 5700X Memory: 128 GB DDR4 Discs: Systemdisc : Single 1TB nvme drive (Way to big drive) VM Drive : Single 1 TB nvme drive Storage...

I have an ASRock Rack ALTRAD8UD-1L2T board that’s been working great with an M.2 as the boot drive. I’ve been testing and playing around with it for a bit with no issues. Recently, I installed an Avago MegaRAID 9460-16i HBA with the goal of booting from an SSD attached to it. This broke...

Hey so I was running gigabyte ga b150m and i5 6500 on OMV before shipping my tower overseas and now it won’t post and is power cycling. I might have to replace the mobo n cpu should I buy new or used and any recommendations? My case in antec p100. My use case is jellyfin and *arrs mostly...

Hi everyone, I'm setting up a small home server to self-host services like Jellyfin, Nextcloud, Docker, etc. The problem: my server has no GPU and no usable video output, so I can't interact with it through any monitor. --- Hardware: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (no iGPU) Motherboard: AsRock...

Hello everyone, I've been trying for several days to install a Windows 10 virtual machine on my VDS, but I'm either failing during the boot process or it completely hangs when starting up. Currently, I have Proxmox 8.0 VE installed, previously I had Debian 12. My VDS has the following...

I actually have this issue on a both of the 1L machines I recently got. The other is a ThinkCentre m75q-1. The issue is with display port, whenever I am using display port for my display it flickers on the screen. Not a full on and off to complete black. Basically the lower half every other...

TL;DR x12sca-5f gets stuck on boot displaying "DXI --USB Initialization..." and code "69" -- In order to investigate why my newly acquired intel arc gpu didn't seem to enter lowest power saving mode I went into bios and changed l1 to l0 l1 and also enabled peer write memory. After this my...

As it says I’m getting no post but also no error beeps or anything fans spin up IPMI led stays a solid color, and no other leds on the board light up. I have the jumper correctly placed to use the onboard speaker and I have tried what the manual says to take out all of the DIMMs power on them...

Apologies in advance, as I think I can be a bit verbose... I have some hardware sitting around doing jack and I think it's time I put it to good use... I've got a Dell T430 Dual Xeon v4 I got from a company that got rid of their old equipment (forget which model exactly but it's 14 cores 28...