I MIGHT HAVE UNDERESTIMATED....

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nexox

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Sometimes it's a ground pin to pull a signal line low on the powered device to indicate something about the power source, as I recall the PCIe connectors for GPUs do similar, though they tend to be all black wires.
 
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Home stretch.

Machine is starting running, os installed, chipsets updated
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SATA cable hack fixed and all fans installed and working. Octo fan header was not working because faulty usb cable... fixed Stock fan spoofers working on idrac and showing normal fan operation

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5952 processors mocked up with EK water blocks. New water cooling fittings being figured out.
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So I have been trying to figure out a name for the computer.

My previous computer with the Chinese mobo, Russian hack, and old xeon is "The Chinese Junk Yard Dog"

I am thinking this one is maybe "Operation Shoehorn"

Ok give me your worst!
 
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SOS @RolloZ170

Installed all the ram and processors. Cooling system finished.

Tried to start it up for the first time and it powers for 1 second and turns off.

I was VERY careful seating the processors and all the white ram slots are filled with matching 16gb sticks.

Not sure what to do
 

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Installed all the ram and processors. Cooling system finished.

Tried to start it up for the first time and it powers for 1 second and turns off.
Are you familiar with Dell servers and workstations in general?
Often, after hardware changes, they reboot a few times when reconfiguring themselves.

Also, you have iDRAC running, haven't you? So it should show your HW components?
 
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oddssodds

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ok, boots without cpu 2.
pins look good
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processor has a tiny bit of thermal paste covering a trace
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Reinstalled and still giving same error
 

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Swapped #2cpu into the primary slot. Machine boots. When I add the known good #1cpu to slot 2, no boot
 

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Swapped #2cpu into the primary slot. Machine boots. When I add the known good #1cpu to slot 2, no boot
Do CPU slot 1 and CPU slot 2 have separate power connectors from the power supply (I would guess so)?

If yes, are they properly connected? And could you swap them for testing?
 
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