Well this has been very eventful so far. First went to power system up. Pressed power button on the front of the case and..... nothing
Tested with the reset button instead operating as power and it worked. A bit of head scratching and then I turned the 2 pin power connector around. And it worked! They must have wired it up wrong. Solved that one anyway
Next issue was the fans in the case. Started really slowly and then alarm would start bleeping at about 1,000,000 decibels and the fan failure light kept coming on. This would swap between different fans. I tried looking in the Supermicro BIOS but there was nothing about fan speed settings that I could see.
As the bleeping was becoming so annoying I just unplugged the fan controller header from the motherboard. Fans now run at maximum speed, which is also noisy but not as annoying as that bleeping. No fan failures so must be something to do with how the motherboard is sending info to the controller.
And onto the next problem...... yes there is more
I have 1 x Adaptec 6405 card and 2 x Adaptec 5805 cards. On boot up the 2 x 5805 cards were visible and detecting their disks but the 6405 was not even being detected. Tried taking out cards one by one and when the 6405 is in there on it's own it detects perfectly and sees all of it's disks.
All 3 cards work perfectly on their own. This is driving me nuts!!!!!