[PLUG] Problem building Supermicro 1U...

[Johnathan Mantey]

Sam,
How long have you waited for a boot?  Does the system emit any beep codes?

I work on Intel servers and they take forever to boot.  It was pulling
teeth to get the BIOS team to display anything to the monitor during boot.
You just had to wait an eternity to know whether the system was going to
boot or not.

Intel servers will emit beep codes on errors.  They also have an LED bank
on the motherboard to indicate what the BIOS is doing.  I don't have
experience with SuperMicro, so I don't know if they do the same.  If they
do, then get the PDF for the motherboard, and see what kind of boot
diagnostics exist.

Also, if your SMicro has a BMC you may be able to connect to the BMC
webserver (if it has one), and potentially get additional info.

Johnathan

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:44 PM 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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