I've been building PCs for years and this dual Xeon system is causing me to make every single rookie mistake conceivable. Last night I was getting tired but decided to keep troubleshooting my problematic system (issue found). I forgot to plug in the two EPS 12V 8PIN power on the X10DAX and powered the system on.
Was able to boot into windows but running a rendering program caused BSOD, and I powered the system off and found out I left the two power cables unplugged. I hope the motherboard or CPU is not damaged?
UPDATE: ALL PROBLEM RESOLVED WOOOOHOOOOO!
Almost gave up and decided to plea for help online and an ex-lieutenant from the US Navy nuclear forces on anandtech saved my sorry butt. On a late Friday evening, he looked every every screenshot of my bios settings and told me to change two obscure XEON specific power saving features and it magically cleared up ALL my problems.
The following two are disabled on the BIOS:
- Disable C6 State Reporting
- Disable Spread Spectrum
Was able to boot into windows but running a rendering program caused BSOD, and I powered the system off and found out I left the two power cables unplugged. I hope the motherboard or CPU is not damaged?
UPDATE: ALL PROBLEM RESOLVED WOOOOHOOOOO!
Almost gave up and decided to plea for help online and an ex-lieutenant from the US Navy nuclear forces on anandtech saved my sorry butt. On a late Friday evening, he looked every every screenshot of my bios settings and told me to change two obscure XEON specific power saving features and it magically cleared up ALL my problems.
The following two are disabled on the BIOS:
- Disable C6 State Reporting
- Disable Spread Spectrum
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