Welp - fairly certain my SuperMicro x9scm-f board died. Server had been running with no issue for nearly a year and I decided to add 2 drives and swap all case fans out yesterday and it would no longer start up. The CPU fan and one case fan would spin up and down, continuously.
System Specs
- SuperMicro x9scm-f
- Intel Xeon E3-1220 v2 SR0PH 3.10GHz
- Kingston 2x4GB 2Rx8 PC3-12800E DDR3 1600MHz 1.5V ECC UNBUFFERED UDIMM Memory
- 2x shucked 8TB WD drives (1x for Parity)
- 4x HGST 8TB SAS3 7.2k 3.5" HDD (2 were added yesterday, 1x was going to be for 2nd parity drive) - Kingston 120gb SSD for VM
- SK Hynix 500gb SSD for Cache
- EVGA - W3 Series 450W ATX 12V/EPS 12V 80 Plus Power Supply (EVGA B-Stock) Replaced yesterday with: EVGA - BR Series 700W
- IBM M5110 = LSI 9207-8i IT w/ LSI P20 IT Mode ZFS Ready HBA Adaptor
- Tiergrade Superspeed 7 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0 Expansion
Troubleshooting Steps
- Went out and bought a new PSU and had the same issues.
- Removed all pci boards (USB expansion, SAS board)
- Tried only having one drive hooked up (then tried none)
- Re-seated the RAM - Tried RAM in different slots (1 stick at a time)
- Pulled CPU and re-seated - Pulled Mobo and checked stand-offs to ensure no extras causing a short - Only one case fan would run alongside CPU fan. Seems like only one other fan header on the board worked (ran all fans to that header, one at a time, and they all spun up and behaved like the CPU fan, spin up then down, then up then down)
- Tried running only mobo/cpu/cpu fan (pulled everything else)
Other notes:
- IPMI Heartbeat was pulsing
- LE4 was lit (means there is power, from my understanding)
I did buy another board, which should arrive sometime this week, but wanted to know if there was anything else I should try in the mean time?