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Okay I was wondering if I needed a controller card... Oh, I forgot to mention, the motherboard is a MSI Z68MA-ED55 (not that it probably makes a difference). I am booting from a SSD connected directly to the motherboard. That works just fine, but the miniSAS to SATA does not (like I said before). Thanks for the quick replies!

Hey guys, I've got a question about connecting a SAS backplane to my motherboard. So I've been playing around with putting my old server into a rack-mount chassis. The chassis I have is a NORCO PRC-2008 2U. It has a SAS backplane for its hot-swap drive bay. The hard drives I have are all SATA (which I read shouldn't be a problem connecting to SAS). I bought a miniSAS to SATA breakout cable like this: https://goo.gl/ohT3Fg. The problem arises when I turn the machine on, it doesn't see any of the drives. In the BIOS, under those SATA ports it just says "Not Present." I think I'm a tad out of my depth so I thought I'd come to some of the experts. Thanks!

Yeah. Definitely not my first build, but it is my first server build. I probably went with the wrong board for my first server. Thanks for all the help and insight!

So in your opinion my best bet would be to try a Sandy bridge E5 processor then?

Sorry for the late response. I've been a mixture of busy with work and lazy in my down time. My question is though, I'm not getting any power up at all... so I don't even have the chance to flash the BIOS. Could this be a different problem than CPU capability?

Hey guys, I'm pretty new here. I've been a long time viewer of the youtube channel, but I haven't spent much time here. So here's what's going on... The Specs: NORCO RPC-2008 2U Rackmount Server Case (Newegg) Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 Hexa-core 3.50 GHz Processor - Socket R LGA-2011 (Ebay - New) Intel Cooling Fan/Heatsink - Socket R LGA-2011 (Newegg) ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 SSI EEB Server Motherboard Dual LGA 2011 Intel C602 DDR3 1600/1333/1066 (Ebay - New) Kingston 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Unbuffered DDR3 1600 Server Memory w/TS Model KVR16E11K4/32 (Newegg) Athena Power AP-U2ATX80FEP8 20+4Pin 800W Single 2U IPC Server Power Supply - 80PLUS Bronze (Newegg) SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 250GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) MZ-75E250B/AM (Newegg) WD Gold 4TB Datacenter Hard Disk Drive - 7200 RPM Class SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5 inch - WD4002FYYZ (Newegg) At first I didn't even get the motherboard LEDs to come up with everything put together. I then trouble shot this with another (old but working) rig. I found that the power supply was shot. I RMA'ed it and recently received the new ps. Now I have the two LEDs on the board light up. One stays solid and the lower LED on the board lights up then starts to blink. However, the damn thing doesn't boot. I get nothing. No POST. No fans. Nothing. Silence. I've tried all 4 sticks of RAM (all in the white slots then all in blue slots). I've tried 2 sticks. I've tried 1 stick. Since it is a dual CPU board, I've tried moving the CPU, heatsink, and RAM to the other socket set. I actually have bought two of the CPUs (for the eventual ability to use both sockets, so I swapped out one CPU for the other to see if I had a dead one. No dice. I'm literally going crazy. This was supposed to be a quick(ish) build that has now been sitting dead for a month and half in my room. Am I missing something obvious? I read that dual CPU board can work with only one CPU in; is that not the case for this board? Oh, and the purpose of this server will be a Plex server and maybe some other random things I might play with. Sorry if this is ridiculously long, just going out of my mind.