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!
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.
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.
did you read the manual and connect power the way you are supposed to?
Try it out of the case if it starts up then. With ipmi working but nothing turning on when you hit the power button, it might be short circuit protection. There may be spacers that touch the board if the old X8 had different spacing for the screw holes.
I tried that. Nothing plugged in except the PSU and front headers, mobo sitting on a stack of paper, no response at all when I hit the switch. I’m working on returning now 😞