SOLVED MBD-X10SLL-F-O no blinky green led

[purduephotog]

It's been a very long week and I normally wouldn't consider begging for help, but here I am.

I have one completely stable build using 9.2.1.8 and it fired right up after being down a year (for my medical reasons).

I purchased similar hardware except for the Viking ram, given the changes, and now I have a board that just looks ... odd... compared to every other supermicro build I've done.

Basically, the standby power LED (orange) is glowing, but instead of the solid blinky green LED I get ... a very very dim LED barely lit. The machine won't turn on, period. I've shorted the jumpers directly (assuming a bad connection) and it still won't come on.

I can fire up another mobo with the PSU, so I doubt its that but I will be swapping out.

It's a G3220, MBD-X10SLL-F-O, Samsung 8GB DDR3-1600 MHz PC3-12800 240-pin ECC Server Memory - M391B1G73QH0-YK0.

It ought to turn on or spin a fan or beep at me. It doesn't.

I've pulled out all the peripherals and dropped the board back onto a static mat and still no go.

Before I rip down the working FreeNas build and steal the Viking Ram (which may or may not even work) ... is there something I should try first? Because frankly I'm out of ideas...

... pulled CMOS batter, reset bios, watchdog on/off, IPMI on/off,USB stick in / out....

 

[Ericloewe]

It's been a very long week and I normally wouldn't consider begging for help, but here I am.

I have one completely stable build using 9.2.1.8 and it fired right up after being down a year (for my medical reasons).

I purchased similar hardware except for the Viking ram, given the changes, and now I have a board that just looks ... odd... compared to every other supermicro build I've done.

Basically, the standby power LED (orange) is glowing, but instead of the solid blinky green LED I get ... a very very dim LED barely lit. The machine won't turn on, period. I've shorted the jumpers directly (assuming a bad connection) and it still won't come on.

I can fire up another mobo with the PSU, so I doubt its that but I will be swapping out.

It's a G3220, MBD-X10SLL-F-O, Samsung 8GB DDR3-1600 MHz PC3-12800 240-pin ECC Server Memory - M391B1G73QH0-YK0.

It ought to turn on or spin a fan or beep at me. It doesn't.

I've pulled out all the peripherals and dropped the board back onto a static mat and still no go.

Before I rip down the working FreeNas build and steal the Viking Ram (which may or may not even work) ... is there something I should try first? Because frankly I'm out of ideas...

... pulled CMOS batter, reset bios, watchdog on/off, IPMI on/off,USB stick in / out....

Are you saying IPMI has power and is accessible? That's odd. Does it have anything logged?

 

[purduephotog]

Negative. The green led never starts blinking. I gave not gotten the ipmi up.

 

[purduephotog]

Swapped out Viking ram and still wouldn't boot. Looks like it's processor and ram transplant to old board to see if it fixes or posts.

 

[purduephotog]

OK my head hurts.

Swapped every component. Finally broke out the last PSU I had from my main machine... And it booted to ipmi.

So... Solved? Maybe? At least I now have a blinking green led. Can't figure out why two working PSU wouldn't bring it up... No drives or other components attached.

 

[Ericloewe]

What PSU models are we talking about?

 

[survive]

Hi purduephotog,

Maybe you are running into this:

http://techreport.com/review/24897/the-big-haswell-psu-compatibility-list

Seems that Haswell chips can be a little picky about PSU's...I got an old Seasonic 500w on the shelf right now because of this!

-Will

 

[purduephotog]

One is a TruePower (old Antec), the other is another Antec. I finally found out the corsairs seem to be OK, so I'm buying 2 more (a gold and bronze) to replace the others. when the rebates come around...

Talk about annoying though. I wouldn't have thought sleep states on the first initial boot for the system.