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    ok , where's my whip?

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    well said Jaco
    Last edited by Duh; 12-14-2008 at 03:14 PM.
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    Well, I got my stuff a couple of weeks ago. I've been pretty busy the last couple of weeks to do much with it, but I managed to get it assembled and do some testing with a livecd. The board came with a so-so amount of visible damage(it's ebay after all...), one of the 8x pci-e slots is somewhat broken(but the pins look all there and luckily not touching), a few bent capacitors(not to the extreme of breaking), and most concerning is the bottom of the board looks like it has rust on the solder areas or some unknown substance... Despite this the board seems to work just fine, stress tested it with linpack for a few hours and it didn't fail. Got the IPMI working as well after some futzing, one of the SMD capacitors on the module was half attached and needs to be re-soldered eventually.

    I'm hoping to find some time over Christmas break to get it fully setup, need to pick up some of those 40mm fans as the one in the PSU is definitely too loud. Still debating on how to handle storage for it, tempted to go with solid state over a laptop drive. I'm thinking about doing some virtualization with it so I can run a firewall/router and separate linux partition.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaco View Post
    ok , where's my whip?

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    Just curious how exactly you handled the PSU fan, did you just unplug it and instead rely on one of those quieter ones as an intake?

    What model deltas are those, along with CFM/dBA? Trying to decide how much flow to go for, as I know it shouldn't matter too much for the CPUs, but I just want to make sure the PSU stays in spec.



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    ok, here goes last attempt: does *anyone* know how to decypher the diagnostic LEDs on the Intel mobo?

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    also.. I'm gonna make a list of minimum things that need to be done/plugged in for this system to work, I want to do this so I can run it by u guys & see if I'm missing anything... ok here goes:

    CPU power
    mobo power
    CPUs
    RAM
    CPU fans (using appropriate headers)
    1 HDD
    front panel - power button

    is that it?

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    I take it your sausage-man rig won't post. Have you tried it with only one CPU?

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    he added a pci slot to the board maybe a short on one of the pins.
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    Added? As in soldered onto the unused pads? Risky business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    I take it your sausage-man rig won't post. Have you tried it with only one CPU?
    that would require a CPU blank according to Intel

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    ya, he's got a thread on it somewhere, that where his avatar pic came from,lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    Added? As in soldered onto the unused pads? Risky business.
    http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=192842

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    Quote Originally Posted by fart_plume View Post
    he added a pci slot to the board maybe a short on one of the pins.
    I *highly* doubt a short as I got power to the slot functioning - if there were a short, the LAN card I tested with wouldnt have lived

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    So what LED pattern are you getting on the diagnostics? (I'm looking at that page(s) in the manual now)

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    So what LED pattern are you getting on the diagnostics? (I'm looking at that page(s) in the manual now)
    pic incoming

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    ok so as per mobo manual - there is 3 diff combos per 'array' (pair) of LEDs: red, green, & red+green (referred to as amber in manual)....



    i'm getting green on LED pair #1
    & amber on LED pair #3

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    Book sayd "Keyboard/Interface error". Do you have a keyboard plugged in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    Book sayd "Keyboard/Interface error". Do you have a keyboard plugged in?
    thats the last thing I would have expected :-/

    in that pic - no, *but* I have had the same error code *every* time & on many occasions had a PS2 kb plugged in

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    Suggestion/guess/worth a shot ... pull the CMOS battery out, reset BIOS (with CPUs in) and try again with keyboard plugged in. Who knows.

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    Are you getting any beeps with that POST code?

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    Suggestion/guess/worth a shot ... pull the CMOS battery out, reset BIOS (with CPUs in) and try again with keyboard plugged in. Who knows.
    ok. will try.

    btw, could I ask what page(s) were u looking at to figure the code thingy? I desperately want to learn!

    as a example, I'm looking here:
    notice the page of manual doesnt correspond with what adobe says on the side


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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    Are you getting any beeps with that POST code?
    nope :-/

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    The only reference I found in the manual to that hex code (the binary translates to 04Ch) is on page 128 of the manual (140 to your document reader).

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    Quote Originally Posted by D_A View Post
    Suggestion/guess/worth a shot ... pull the CMOS battery out, reset BIOS (with CPUs in) and try again with keyboard plugged in. Who knows.
    done - still no go

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