[PLUG] Problem building Supermicro 1U...

[Louis Kowolowski]

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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