[SOLVED, dead CPU] installed pair of 2687w v4 to R430: no display output, iDRAC 8 pasword unknown, no serial output, how to troubleshoot?

[tinfoil3d]

Or maybe you know of any way to reset iDRAC to default root:calvin? I don't have anything on VGA on either ports. I guess I should have reset iDRAC before doing the upgrade but who knew.
No beeps no little LCD display on my model, just "health" flashing amber. Fans are near idle.
I did NOT test the CPUs before, just bought them.

 

[CyklonDX]

its likely using outdated bios, and idrac thats why its not working with v4 cpu's.

Get 1x 2011LGA v3 cpu something cheap and update your idrac & bios. (recommend this grade Intel® Xeon Processor E5-2620 v3 2.4GHz SR207 Server/Enterprise DDR4 CPU 15MB | eBay )
(You can reset idrac password from bios.)

//even if you managed to reset password somehow to idrac, you still won't be able to do anything from there - it will be broken until supported cpu is installed in this case v3, and then you update both bios and idrac to newest -- you won't be able to update idrac/bios when v4's are in and your idrac & bios is outdated.)

Regards

 

[tinfoil3d]

2630v4 was installed there and working, but will be doing more debugging later today

 

[CyklonDX]

you could be hitting potential power limits of socket/s.

 

[tinfoil3d]

Okay so CPU2 was cool after 1 minute after power on, CPU1 was warm. I removed CPU2 and it booted with just single CPU. No visual damage, I guess at this point I can conclude that one CPU was dead.

 

[tinfoil3d]

Yeah, confirmed dead CPU, same results in HPE G9 that was previously working. So there is no incompatibility between E5-2687w v4 and R430, it may be marginally cooled and overall just 12 slots of RAM with 8 for CPU1 and 4 for CPU2 isn't too good of an idea but since I got the system for peanuts im not complaining.