Motherboard is getting power, but not outputting video

[TopWargamer]

This is round 2 of building a home server, and I'm having motherboard issues yet again. The motherboard is getting power -- I know this because the fans spin when I turn it on -- yet it displays no video output on the onboard VGA. The monitor and VGA cable I'm using work perfectly fine. I can't troubleshoot using a video card because the motherboard only accepts older PCI or AGP cards. 

 

Any ideas on how I can get the motherboard to output video to my monitor? The motherboard is the SuperMicro X7DWN+.

Motherboard page: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5400/X7DWN_.cfm

[DrMacintosh]

Does the CPU have an iGPU? 

[TopWargamer]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Does the CPU have an iGPU? 

I thought it did...? It's the X5472. ARK didn't mention anything about it.

http://ark.intel.com/products/34447/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5472-12M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1600-MHz-FSB

 

Bought the motherboard, CPU, and RAM from a fellow forum member, who kindly hasn't charged me for them yet until they work. He tested it out before shipping it to me, and it worked for him. I'm assuming he used the onboard VGA.

[bgibbz]

Buy a cheap gpu to test?

 

XFX PVT44AWANG GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card (VGA/DVI/S-Video) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CQ73PW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Vg3qyb9DYV7PK

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, bgibbz said:

Buy a cheap gpu to test?

 

XFX PVT44AWANG GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card (VGA/DVI/S-Video) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000CQ73PW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Vg3qyb9DYV7PK

Man, just looking at that thing puts me in an internal civil war.......

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

it doesn't

That would explain it. 

[bgibbz]

6 minutes ago, TopWargamer said:

I thought it did...? It's the X5472. ARK didn't mention anything about it.

http://ark.intel.com/products/34447/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5472-12M-Cache-3_00-GHz-1600-MHz-FSB

 

Bought the motherboard, CPU, and RAM from a fellow forum member, who kindly hasn't charged me for them yet until they work. He tested it out before shipping it to me, and it worked for him. I'm assuming he used the onboard VGA.

Doesn't have an igpu unfortunately. 

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-1024MB-Graphics-01G-P3-2615-KR/dp/B00847TOLC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1480815509&sr=8-1&keywords=610

That is much less morally objectable 

[TopWargamer]

Thanks guys. I'll get a cheapo GPU try that. PCI-E cards don't fit though. PCI and AGP only. I'll try to find something local so I can test tomorrow. If anybody knows of any Amazon listings for PCI or AGP cards with next day shipping, let me know.

[TopWargamer]

9 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Doesn't have an igpu unfortunately. 

 

9 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Doesn't have an igpu unfortunately. 

 

I just noticed that the *motherboard* has integrated graphics. I would imagine it would still work. I'll still try using a video card though.

[DrMacintosh]

2 minutes ago, TopWargamer said:

 

 

 integrated graphics

I think that just means that it has support for CPUs with integrated graphics. 

[TopWargamer]

2 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

I think that just means that it has support for CPUs with integrated graphics. 

"ATI ES1000 Graphics with 32 MB video memory"

[DrMacintosh]

Just now, TopWargamer said:

"ATI ES1000 Graphics with 32 MB video memory"

Oh, well then the boards graphics are probably dead 

[AshleyAshes]

I got half way through this thread wondering if anyone would realize that it has integrated graphics on the mobo itself.  I'm glad somebody caught it.

 

That said, I would suggest trying to figure out the mobos' POST beep codes or however else it communicates if it's successfully POSTing or not and where it's failing for diagnostics before assuming what is and isn't dead.

 

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long and two short beeps - video confi guration error

1 repetitive long beep - no memory detected

1 continuous beep with Front Panel Overheat LED on - system overheat

If this doesn't help, a POST Code Debug Board should have no issue reading port 80h and spitting out a much more specific error code.

[TopWargamer]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

I got half way through this thread wondering if anyone would realize that it has integrated graphics on the mobo itself.  I'm glad somebody caught it.

 

That said, I would suggest trying to figure out the mobos' POST beep codes or however else it communicates if it's successfully POSTing or not and where it's failing for diagnostics before assuming what is and isn't dead.

 

If this doesn't help, a POST Code Debug Board should have no issue reading port 80h and spitting out a much more specific error code.

What if there's no beeps? Because there's no beeps when I turn it on.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, TopWargamer said:

What if there's no beeps? Because there's no beeps when I turn it on.

Is the internal speaker jumper shorted?

 

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Power LED/Speaker

On the JD1 header, pins 1-3 are used for power LED indication, and pins 4-7 are for the speaker. See the table on the right for speaker

pin definitions. Note: The speaker connector pins (4-7) are for use with an external speaker. If you wish to use the onboard speaker, you should close pins 6-7 with a jumper.

 

[TopWargamer]

15 minutes ago, AshleyAshes said:

Is the internal speaker jumper shorted?

 

 

Maybe...? I'll check in a bit. Thanks for the info.

[AshleyAshes]

1 minute ago, TopWargamer said:

Maybe...? I'll check in a bit. Thanks for the info.

I'm just reading the manual... and wondering why you aren't reading the manual instead...

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, TopWargamer said:

This is round 2 of building a home server, and I'm having motherboard issues yet again. The motherboard is getting power -- I know this because the fans spin when I turn it on

Are all of the power connectors connected?

 

There is the 24 pin, an 8 pin eps, and another 4 pin eps. These all need to be connected because it is needed to power both the exta cpu, and the fb dimms which use a lot of power.

 

If you don't have all the ram slots full they also have to be in a certain configuration for either dual / single cpus.

 

You could also try a post code reader to see what it stops on, and then google it to see what the problem is.

[TapfererToaster]

I just had to deal with a SM board that did nothing (no post, no beeps) when I installed it, too.

 

Before SM boards post or do anything really, they perform a check to see if everything is ok - after that they POST.

In my case, i installed CPU & RAM, started the server, FANs started, but nothing else happend.

 

So the first thing to do, is to remove all the RAM and PCI cards currently installed. If it does not beep then, the boards seems pretty dead to me..(assuming PSU and CPUs are already checked)

If it beeps, install your DIMM one after another and see how far you get. in my case, filling the DIMM C1 slot always prevented the board from POSTing. But it could be dead or wrong RAM sticks, too.

 

If it works with RAM installed, start inserting your PCI cards and see if one of those prevented it from POSTing.

[CCCP]

Try to start with 1 CPU then it must be works with two CPU and video