[PLUG] Problem building Supermicro 1U...

Larry Brigman larry.brigman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 15:14:08 UTC 2019


Also, SuperMicro has a quiet boot screen(Default) that gives little
feedback in that mode.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 8:05 AM Louis Kowolowski <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org>
wrote:

> How long have you let it run? IPMI takes several minutes to boot from a
> power-off state. It also has to complete booting before the rest of the
> machine does the equiv of a power-on. It could be up to 5min before you see
> a bios prompt.
>
>
> > On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:43 AM, Sam's Lists <samslists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've bought all the parts to build a 1U server.  The motherboard is an
> > X11SCM-LN8F.  I've got a Xeon processor, 64 GB of RAM, and a supermicro
> > chassis.
> >
> > I've assembled the system and it flashes up a message about IPMI when
> it's
> > turned on, and then nothing happens.  I can't get into the bios (or even
> > press the caps lock key and get the keyboard caps lock led to light up).
> >
> > Any ideas as to what to try?
> >
> > Anyone in town specialize in building rackmount servers?  I wouldn't mind
> > paying someone to figure out what I did wrong and fix the whole thing.
> >
> > I'm not really sure otherwise how to proceed, since I can't figure out if
> > it's the cpu, the ram, or the motherboard.  (If I had spares I guess I
> > could, but I only have the one motherboard and the one cpu).
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sam
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