Hi all,
I acquired a system with an X9SRL-F motherboard in it, and I'm trying to get it to boot with a Xeon E5-2680 v2 (which might be unsupported as I suspect the BIOS is too old)
Out of the gate the board gives me nothing, no beeps, nothing in the IPMI event log (well, nothing related to boot, PSU plugging is registered), no nothing. No output from the VGA port either (did check VGA jumper and all looks fine there).
IPMI works fine, and when I start the system I can see the CPU and the PCH temperatures, but no PWM information (but the fans do spin down after a bit, but that might just be the backplane's doing as most fans are plugged into the backplane), nor voltages.
So far I've tried:
* booting without CPU
* reseating the CPU
* swapping memory around, or outright removing it (should at least beep at me then, but nope)
* checked the socket for bent pins, and didn't find anything out of the ordinary
The only things plugged in are the power, memory, CPU and the i2c connector for the PSU. Nothing else is plugged in to the motherboard.
I did notice the IPMI was really old, so I suspect the BIOS likely is as well. I updated IPMI to the latest I could find in hopes that I could upgrade BIOS through IPMI.
Unfortunately upgrading BIOS didn't go anywhere as all the BIOS versions I've managed to find give me a "BOARD ID mismatch" error. I did see a post on this forum where someone suggested this specific error went away after successfully booting (for a different Supermicro board, but still, hope), so I've ordered the cheapest non-V2 CPU I could find to test that theory.
In the meantime I was wondering whether any of you can confirm that this is "normal" behaviour when dealing with an unsupported CPU, or whether the motherboard is likely toast.
Any ideas of other things I could look into are also more than welcome.
I acquired a system with an X9SRL-F motherboard in it, and I'm trying to get it to boot with a Xeon E5-2680 v2 (which might be unsupported as I suspect the BIOS is too old)
Out of the gate the board gives me nothing, no beeps, nothing in the IPMI event log (well, nothing related to boot, PSU plugging is registered), no nothing. No output from the VGA port either (did check VGA jumper and all looks fine there).
IPMI works fine, and when I start the system I can see the CPU and the PCH temperatures, but no PWM information (but the fans do spin down after a bit, but that might just be the backplane's doing as most fans are plugged into the backplane), nor voltages.
So far I've tried:
* booting without CPU
* reseating the CPU
* swapping memory around, or outright removing it (should at least beep at me then, but nope)
* checked the socket for bent pins, and didn't find anything out of the ordinary
The only things plugged in are the power, memory, CPU and the i2c connector for the PSU. Nothing else is plugged in to the motherboard.
I did notice the IPMI was really old, so I suspect the BIOS likely is as well. I updated IPMI to the latest I could find in hopes that I could upgrade BIOS through IPMI.
Unfortunately upgrading BIOS didn't go anywhere as all the BIOS versions I've managed to find give me a "BOARD ID mismatch" error. I did see a post on this forum where someone suggested this specific error went away after successfully booting (for a different Supermicro board, but still, hope), so I've ordered the cheapest non-V2 CPU I could find to test that theory.
In the meantime I was wondering whether any of you can confirm that this is "normal" behaviour when dealing with an unsupported CPU, or whether the motherboard is likely toast.
Any ideas of other things I could look into are also more than welcome.