I should add that I have done my due diligence and tested without add-in cards, BIOS update, eliminating RAM modules one-by-one, etc.Owners of the X9SCM-F: What kind of beeps does your board make when booting up?
Mine is making some strange beeps, but nothing that matches up with the error patterns in the manual.
I can find no discernable errors in the POST output, and the board functions fine on the whole, but this kind of has me spooked.
I have an E3-1230, M1015 HBA and (3) 4GB RAM sticks from the QVL for this board (the 4th is on backorder).
Any ideas? What sounds does your board make?
I don't have the X9SCM-F, but my X8SIL-F has similar inexplicable beeps at startup. I've posted about this here, and several other forums, never found a solution. I've stripped it down to the bare minimum (RAM, CPU, power supply), and tried different everything except CPU. The system has been 100% stable since day 1, so I've just chalked it up to the "personality" of the board. Note that when I originally had the problem, I contacted Supermicro tech support, and they wanted me to send the whole system for diagnosis. I didn't want to pay for all the shipping and be without my system that long, so they sent me a replacement. The replacement has the same behavior. It could be the CPU, as that's the only thing unchanged across all the experimentation, but if the CPU was bad, I think I'd see a lot of other wacky issues.Owners of the X9SCM-F: What kind of beeps does your board make when booting up?
Mine is making some strange beeps, but nothing that matches up with the error patterns in the manual.
I can find no discernable errors in the POST output, and the board functions fine on the whole, but this kind of has me spooked.
I have an E3-1230, M1015 HBA and (3) 4GB RAM sticks from the QVL for this board (the 4th is on backorder).
Any ideas? What sounds does your board make?
Wow, that's strange. I'm glad to see I'm not crazy, though. I too have tried reducing the system to the minimum components, with the same results every time. I've also run an extended test of the RAM modules I'm using, so I'm reasonably confident that I don't have any bad modules.I don't have the X9SCM-F, but my X8SIL-F has similar inexplicable beeps at startup. I've posted about this here, and several other forums, never found a solution. I've stripped it down to the bare minimum (RAM, CPU, power supply), and tried different everything except CPU. The system has been 100% stable since day 1, so I've just chalked it up to the "personality" of the board. Note that when I originally had the problem, I contacted Supermicro tech support, and they wanted me to send the whole system for diagnosis. I didn't want to pay for all the shipping and be without my system that long, so they sent me a replacement. The replacement has the same behavior. It could be the CPU, as that's the only thing unchanged across all the experimentation, but if the CPU was bad, I think I'd see a lot of other wacky issues.
See also: Crucial forums post, HardForum post, Intel forum post.
It's been so long I honestly don't remember. I'm fairly sure they did an advance replacement (charge my credit card for a new one, then credit me when they received the old one). I can't remember how the shipping costs worked out.How was your interaction with Supermicro support? When I read their support site it seems to suggest they don't want end users interacting with them, but I think I'll feel better if I switch the board out with a new one. Were you able to get an advance replacement? Did they make you pay shipping?