FirstClass
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*I’ve been lurking here for a while and hoping to lean on some of the expertise I’ve been reading.
I recently decided to take the plunge from consumer hardware into the server realm to get the 13 spinning disks I have in a tower into a dedicated rack mount NAS/VM machine. After a lot of research, I went with a used Supermicro 846 chassis. I received it, checked that it was in good physical shape, installed it in my rack, connected power, and everything spun right up. It was late at that point, so I stopped before connecting anything else (IMPI, etc) and never tried to log in or check the bios. When I came back to it the next day after work, it was powered off and would not power back up.
Specs of the build:
Troubleshooting and Symptoms:
Any guidance or troubleshooting suggestions would be appreciated.
I recently decided to take the plunge from consumer hardware into the server realm to get the 13 spinning disks I have in a tower into a dedicated rack mount NAS/VM machine. After a lot of research, I went with a used Supermicro 846 chassis. I received it, checked that it was in good physical shape, installed it in my rack, connected power, and everything spun right up. It was late at that point, so I stopped before connecting anything else (IMPI, etc) and never tried to log in or check the bios. When I came back to it the next day after work, it was powered off and would not power back up.
Specs of the build:
- Chassis: CSE-846E16-R1200B
- Motherboard: X9DRi-F
- Processor: 2x Intel Xeon E5-2695 V2 12 Core 2.4GHz
- Memory: 128GB DDR3 (8 x 16GB - DDR3 - ECC REG)
- Controller: 1x LSI 9211-4i HBA JBOD 6GB/S (set to IT Mode)
- Backplane: BPN-SAS2-846EL1 24-port 4U SAS2 6Gbps single-expander backplane
- Power Supplies: 2x PWS-920P-SQ Super Quiet
Troubleshooting and Symptoms:
- I did cable up the IPMI and NIC1 Ethernet connections now. The NIC1 front panel LED is flashing.
- There are no other front panel LED’s lit. This includes the Power LED. If I’m reading the manual correctly it should be lit whether the system is online or not, but the phrasing has me second guessing.
- The power supply LED’s are both solid Amber. The manual was not super helpful here either stating this is either off+normal or off+abnormal.
- The BMC Heartbeat LED is blinking green, which the manual is telling me is normal.
- I have tried removing and reseating both power cables, removing and reseating both PSU’s, leaving the chassis unplugged for over 12 hours, etc with no change in symptoms.
- When I initially plugged the first PSU in, the PSU alarm went off as expected. When I got the second PSU connected it turned off as expected. The fans came on at full speed and came down within a minute or two as expected.
Any guidance or troubleshooting suggestions would be appreciated.