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SuperMicro MoBo won't post (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Least_Hospital_2428@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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I had a cool little bare-bones server that had an x8 series mobo and I wanted to turn it into a NAS. I ended ordering a X11SSM-F board so that I could use some better hardware. From what I could tell it should be a simple swap, but I put everything together today and cant get the dumb thing to POST.

Ive tried unplugging everything but the PSU and send the power-on command from IPMI. I've tried with 4 sticks of ram, 1 stick and no ram. I never get a beep or fans or anything.

I bought this board off ebay and it came with a processor installed and was "pulled from a working system". If I can Verify that its DOA then I'm sure I can get a refund, but I want to make sure I test everything I can before going that route.

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[–] Jerhaad@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I’m in the same boat with an X10SDV. I went down the rabbit hole for ACPI and the super micro troubleshooting docs but I haven’t been successful. If you are accessing IPMI then you’re ahead of me.

I would check every single jumper and look for any obvious signs of short circuits like scorch marks.

Otherwise good luck!

[–] hannsr@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does it do anything? The x10sdv can be a pita to troubleshoot as there is nothing at all to diagnose without access to ipmi.

I've had multiple x10sdv, some had a corrupted bios, others were completely shorted, and they all had the exact same symptoms of powering on, but only spinning fans at Max and nothing else.

You can get a diagnostics card to read out the post codes, but it's hard to find and often not cheap if you can find it at all. Should be the AOC-LPC80-20 iirc, if you want to look for it. If you get anything at all that's not just 00, there's hope a bios rewrite can fix it.

[–] Jerhaad@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the notes! I’ll look around for this post card. I have power and IPMI LEDs looking happy but only after I latch power by shorting the ATX connector to ground and skipping the power button header.