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Hello, so I wanted to ask if anyone has had this happen to them just to be sure. I have a couple Zotac 1080Ti Minis and today I noticed one of them was reporting 0 RPM from the fan, even under load. I got suspicious, I opened the PC and I found one of the two fans, the one closest to the exhaust of the card, spinning VERY slowly, while the other fan is working fine. I took the cards out of the system to inspect them; I noticed that if I try to spin the fans manually, the broken fan resists a lot compared to the other fans... it doesn't spin freely like the others. If I had to make an educated guess on what's going on I would say I suspect the fan bearing might be broken or have something wrong with it; I wanted to check if anyone else had a problem like this in the past. I am thinking of sending the card back for a replacement... I only bought it in January after all. What do you guys think?

Right. So the thing is I am not hugely familiar with RAID, I have never used it before. I know everything about the different types (0,1,5,10, etc.) but I am not sure about all the different ways to achieve the RAID itself. I am not exactly sure what this server has, beyond what I can see in the BIOS, because I got it off eBay from some seller that specializes in servers that are obsolete and no longer used by some big company. I took some pictures from the server itself and the BIOS, because I feel like maybe they are going to be more eloquent than my explainations. The first picture is what I think is the backplane controller, the SAS/RAID controller. If I disable this in the BIOS the drives don't even get detected, so I assume that's what it does. Also, it is responsible for reporting the drives to the rest of the server. It comes up during POST in a separate screen and lists all the drives, stating they are 2TB. If ESRTII mode is selected, that comes up instead, but it still seems to work from this same chip, as the mode selection only comes up in the BIOS if this guy is enabled. The second picture is the whole backplane. You can still see what I assume to be the controller, the three drives plugged in and the mid/backplane that connects to the motherboard. Third picture is detail of the mid/backplane. Pictures 4 and 5 are the BIOS screen where all this controller stuff happens, they speak for themselves. Pictures 6 and 7 are from the LSI SAS/RAID BIOS when IT/IR mode is enabled and I get in its configuration during POST. Pictures 8 and 9 are respectively the properties of the 2TB drive that I intend to use as a system drive and one of the 4TB drives only showing up as 2TB. As far as getting a PCI RAID card goes there's 2 problems with it. Firstly, the drives can only plug into the backplane, which then reports them as 2TB to the rest of the system anyway. Secondly, I cannot give up the Quadro because GPU acceleration is practically essential for video rendering and encoding. I can't find any way to configure the backplane to just be a passthrough and let the OS see the drives as if they were regular SATA drives. At this point if we can't find a solution I am considering just running 2TB drives in RAID and then archiving the data on the 4TB once the raid is full... we'll see. I want to try everything to see if we can make the 4TB work first.

The controller IS LSI actually, as far as I can tell. And yes, I have tried running it in the IT/IR RAID mode, but it still sees it as 2TB, both in the LSI BIOS/configuration thing and in the OS. I have reset the whole RAID thing, so at the moment every drive is its own thing normally. The thing is, when you look at the "verbose" boot, you can see the controller (depending on which one you selected) come up, list the connected drives and let you go in its RAID configuration thing. But they all just see the 4TB drives as 2TB. So basically changing the mode does not seem to do anything about the problem

I am not really sure what you mean by that. In the BIOS mass storage options it only lets me enable or diable the "Intel SAS RAID Module" or change its mode between IT/IR RAID and ESRTII. Then I have settings for the onboard SATA controller, but nothing's connected to it. Also, the backplane the HDDs are conencted to connects to the motherboard with a weird "bridge board" "mid backplane", so I am not sure what's up with that. never seen anything like it before...

Update. Server works again. So back to the original problem then, plus a new one. I reinstalled Windows Server 2008 R2, then went to the Intel website and downloaded some server management console thingy. It reports everything fine but at the bottom of the screen there is a scrolling message that says: "CRITICAL: Pwn Unit status report that the power unit has suffered a failure." I am perplexed. How should I interpret this? Is my PSU dying? Everything seems fine now, but I assume I can't really trust it ...? And then the good old problem of 4TB drives only getting seen as 2TB. I tried converting from MBR to GPT in Windows and messing aroudn the BIOS and the SAS/RAID controller BIOS, but the problem is that the backplane the drives connect to only sees them as 2TB and so it then reports them like that to the rest of the machine. Basically The problem is int the backplane and/or SAS/RAID controller, and until I find a solution for that everything else is irrelevant. Here is what I find difficult right now. I am trying to update the SAS/RAID controller, but I can't find anywhere the exact model and file update. If anyone is more familiar with this field and has insight, that would be very useful now. I have tried getting a "Backplane Firmware update" from Intel's download section for my server, installed it in the EFI shell but nothing changed. Then I got a package of updates for the RAID controller (supposedly) and I installed in the EFI shell "AXXSASIOMOD.NSH" and "AXX4SASMOD.NSH". Both reported success, but I can't tell if anything changed and it definitely did not fix my problem. Anyone more familiar with this can give me a pointer to an update that could fix the 4TB issue?

Ok, update. Removing the CMOS battery and leaving it alone for a couple hours, unplugging everything but a single CPU and RAM stick, it was still beeping angrily, then I put the BIOS reset jumpers back to normal and it suddenly booted spontaneously. I put everything back in place, and now it seems to work normally. This thing is quite the mystery. It is the first piece of hardware that I encounter that behaves in seemingly inexplicable ways. I would love to chat with an Intel engineer to understand what the hell this thing is doing. Anyway, not sure what's going to happen now. I will try to see if I can come up with something. I had tried updating firmware on the backplane and SAS/RAID controller, but I did not see any changes to the drive detection. I will update if something happens.

I did. It has a jumper for that, just like it has one for BIOS recovery, but nothing changes now. It just won't even turn on. I just beeps 1 (pause) 5 (pause) 4 (pause) 2 (end) and goes back to standby. I think the BIOS is bricked.

Update. While trying to figure out if I could do anything in the BIOS to help the situation, I enabled EFI Mode or something. This resulted in no video output or POST. Tried BIOS recovery, nothing happened, black screen for an hour. Turned it off. Now it won't turn on anymore, it just beeps. I think the thing is bricked/dead. I give up. I'm done with this.

Hello there. So a few months back I got this server, an Intel 1600URHSR from eBay, with plans to build a machine that would double as a decent render box for Adobe Media Encoder and a NAS for mass storage of video files. I came here looking for help because I couldn't get Windows Server 2008 R2 installed on any machine with that motherboard (Intel S5520UR); I ended up getting a different Server 2008 R2 disk from someone working in IT and it worked for me. So now I had my server up and running, and I was quite happy and satisfied with the render speed. I added in a Quadro K2000 (only room for single slot in there!) and proceeded to work on the NAS part of the project. The server has 3 hot-swap HDD bays that connect to a SAS backplane. It came with 3 80GB SATA drives and I used those for my testing. I wanted to set it up so that it would have a system drive with OS and software and then a RAID 1 with the other 2 drives for storage and working over the network. All the testing went fine, I switched the backplane to Intel ESRTII in the BIOS, figured out the configuration and everything, it worked great. Tested removing, wiping and rebuilding drives, all good. So I went and decided it was time to buy and install some proper HDDs. I got myself a 2TB WD RED for the OS and two 4TB WD REDs for the RAID1. Today I was installing the whole thing, until I tried to configure the RAID in ESRTII and I noticed that... the 4TB drives only get detected as 2TB drives! So apparently my quest of setting up this stupid thing is far from over. I went on Intel's website and made sure everything was updated: BIOS, firmware, chipset, backplane firmware, SAS RAID controller and all that, everything I could find from Intel's page and install from EFI Shell. Still, my drives are only showing up as 2TB. I read somewhere something about drives larger than 2TB and compatibility problems with old stuff. I can't seem to find a solution. The server has a date on the inside, it was build in December 2009. I guess it is kinda old, but I figured that with drivers from 2014 it really shouldn't have this kind of problem..? Anyone know anything more about this? Possible solutions..? Is there ANYTHING at all I can do to make this server work with 4TB drives..? Or have I just wasted 300$ in drives I can't use?

Oh sorry, I forgot to mention, generally speaking I would be looking for an nVidia card if I can find one. CUDA acceleration works much better with Adobe Media Encoder than AMD's OpenCL acceleration. Linus might have modded a card. Problem is Linus' concept of "modding" generally involved the hardware being almost destroyed and rendered unusable for anything but the specific current project. I would like something that does not require me to hack at a graphics card with a varied of construction tools LMAO

Hey there. Here's the thing, I'm doing this project to use an old Intel server to as a render box and NAS for my video work. I have had some technical issues, but they are mostly solved now, I still have to figure out the RAID setup. Also I'm looking at adding a single slot GPU so it can help with acceleration, especially on color correction and grading. The reason why I need single slot is that the server has very limited clearance inside, it's a 1U chassis and it can fit a card thanks to an included PCI riser. I wanted to check in and see what suggestions I can get. It doesn't seem like there are any decent options on the consumer market, everything decently powerful is two slots these days. I don't really wanna spend a fortune on it - the server itself was 250$ - maybe some old but still decently performing Quadro? What do you think?

Ok, so, thanks for recommending ESXi. I installed it on my server and I have to say it was quite intuitive and easy to use. I created a VM with all the server's resources and installed Server 2008 R2 which this time worked. I assume that is because whatever weird incompatibility is causing the problem gets circumvented by the fact the VM just gets some not-so-specific virtual hardware. I will keep trying to see if I can find a way to install the OS directly, but even if I can't I have to say this option is actually very viable after trying it. The only two things I have to figure out are what happens when my "60 days trial" ends, and how to make a reliable RAID array to use as a NAS and storage for the renders. But I think I'll make a new thread dedicated to asking suggestions for the NAS configuration, or this is gonna go way off-topic. The performance hit doesn't seem that bad TBH. I ran Cinebench 15 on the VM to see what kind of processing power it has, and I got almost double the score of my liquid cooled i7-4770K in my main PC (!!!). I am quite happy with the fact I have an entire machine for 250$ that is almost double the power of a 350$ CPU without the rest of the system. I guess learning to work around servers is complicated but really pays off! If I find a way to install the OS directly I will update the thread in case someone else encounters the problem, in the meantime I'll be making a new thread looking for some advice for storage and RAID.

Ok, Microsoft is not going to be helpful unless I pay them 500$, which if I had that kind of money I wouldn't be shopping for a 7 years old server, but I would build my own. So that goes out the window(s). (yes horrible pun, but I watch LTT what did you expect) I tried contacting the eBay seller, but they specialize in hardware and know about as much as I do, so they couldn't help me. I know someone that knows someone that works in some pretty big IT company, I will try to see if I can get them to look at my server, but I am not too confident that it will work out. So in the meantime, I figured I will try the VM route. Since I have VERY limited experience with this (I think I tried running a VM to use some old DOS game quite a few years ago) I wanted to get some info on what you would recommend for a first timer like me that is free (or very cheap) and not ultra-difficult to get into. Also, since I was planning on running some beefy renders on it, I wanted to get an idea of what kind of a performance hit one can expect from running a configuration like this.

Update. I got really annoyed and contacted Intel directly. They said they don't know about it. They told me that it is a software problem and that I should contact Microsoft. Problem is, apparently Microsoft wants 500$ for technical support. FML. Redemptions, I did not do anything to the drives. They are just sitting there like they would in any normal installation. I will be trying to get an answer from Microsoft for a bit more, but if I can't get them I guess I'll have to start looking into VMs. I never messed with that and I'm definitely interested in learning it, it's just that it's a matter of principle, I'm just extremely mad that the server is specifically validated for that operating system and there seems to be no way of getting it installed.

Update. I have looked into the registry some more and noticed that whenever I am forced to reboot because installation gets stuck, under local machine > setup the value for CmdLine is "winpeshl.exe". Now, I have no idea if this may be correct but here's my theory: could it be that windows installation has to go through that exe file upon first boot, but something is wrong with that file? Maybe I am just talking out of my butt though. Does anyone know what that is?