Intel S5000PSL Will not POST

[Anakumulos]

I recently purchased a known good server motherboard, and posting is an issue. Everything is installed and plugged in correctly, and the board only puts out a couple tiny clicks when Power is applied, and when the BMC loads.

Config:

Intel S5000PSL

Intel Xeon SLARP

EVGA 650GQ

24GB FBDIMM RAM

 

I jump the pins for the front panel, and its as though nothing was even touched.

Any help?

[Jonathan Lemmens]

36 minutes ago, Anakumulos said:

I recently purchased a known good server motherboard, and posting is an issue. Everything is installed and plugged in correctly, and the board only puts out a couple tiny clicks when Power is applied, and when the BMC loads.

Config:

Intel S5000PSL

Intel Xeon SLARP

EVGA 650GQ

24GB FBDIMM RAM

 

I jump the pins for the front panel, and its as though nothing was even touched.

Any help?

 

Are you sure the PSU is working properly? Does clearing CMOS help? If it doesn't, try running on a single stick of RAM (try all slots) and maybe even try a different CPU if you have one.

If none of this helps, your motherboard is most likely dead.

[Anakumulos]

Motherboard was purchased online from a retailer that perviously used it. Said that the motherboard was in a working condition. PSU is brand new (Opened it from an amazon box yesterday). Tried running on all memory configurations possible, and even with no memory installed it doesnt react to the power pins (And at that point it would give me a 3-beep code.)

[Jonathan Lemmens]

This retailer could have ripped you off and the PSU could be DOA too even though it's brand new.... I'm just being the devils advocate here.

 

If you're troubleshooting something, don't go on faith but rather make sure all parts are working as they should. Try this PSU in a different system and a different PSU with this mobo. You could do the same with the memory. If this fails you can try a different CPU.

Isolate the variables, try the easy tings first and go from the top down. If your PSU is dead, you can swap out parts all you want, but it won't fix it.

[Anakumulos]

The PSU is garunteed good after my testing. The only issues could be the motherboard and RAM, but I have no way to test the RAM due to the type. Im probably going to have to just get a different motherboard, because this one should still give me error codes if it wasnt working.