Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

It might be an ampere limiter in the BIOS interfering. Possibly for artificial obsolescence...

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

It might be an ampere limiter in the BIOS interfering. Possibly for artificial obsolescence...

Same BIOS as the board that will run them, so not likely. At least in software.

It's probably something really stupid... like less than 20 I/O connections to the CPU not existing or the like.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

My X6DA8 ran them, both sockets. The pic I posted was only one socket populated for POST testing purposes. I did however run into this with the X6DAL, as I mentioned in the thread, it would only run one CPU.

Missed this.

Anything "Special" done? Was the X6DA8 on the latest BIOS?

Both CPUs are good... maybe you have a different revision board?

[Topcat]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

Nothing special, whatever the latest BIOS is from their site, I'd have to fire it up to get the version number. I'll also check the revision number of the board. My X6DAI also had no issues with the Paxies.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

reflashed stock BIOS (in case SLIC was the issue), nope, no good.

My board is a revision 1.2

Looking on ebay:

found this, same thing without SCSI, but also a 1.2:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Micro...IAAOSwCGha8FZj

The only other thing I saw that's worth my time was this, but it's also a 1.2:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...UAAOSw5JJZkv~b

Didn't see any reasonably priced DAi's or DA3's... so Paxville might be a fail for me? Grr...

Maybe I'm better off to reflow the dead X7DWA-N and put it in here.... Edit- off-topic, but those boards are re-appearing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Supermicro-...oAAOSwwoZa5Cec

(who the hell puts a workstation board in a server, seriously?)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/X7DWA-N-Ser...kAAOSw3Sla373B

Too bad I'm about to blow a lot of money on travel... otherwise, 4.1 might be getting a REALLY BIG upgrade Maybe if nobody bids, they'll relist with a lower starting bid.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

Decided to try her out again... still only showing 4 CPUs. I rebooted to try to shut off HT (to see how that affected things)... and dead. Spins fans.

Nothing was hot to the touch...

Tomorrow (or whenever I get to it) I'll pull the CPUs and see if installing the irwindales revives it. If not, she's dead...

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main Rig V4.1

Played with it tonight... she runs!

Issue was either a loose RAID card or bad RAM connection. Swapping CPUs didn't help (although given the Paxville rejection, it needed to happen anyway). Reflashed my SLIC BIOS, all better. Good as new.