So I have spent the better part of 2 weeks (in my free time) trying to sort out what exactly is going on with this thing. Let me air out this story for some context.
I had purchased this kit off of eBay almost as soon as I had seen the posting. It was a solid price ($551USD) and already had the upgraded Sunrich S-331 backplane so I was pretty stoked that there really wouldn’t be anything for me to do beside have fun…
Specs -
1 x SuperMicro X9SRH-7TF
1 x Intel Xeon E5-1620V2
4 x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C-PB 8GB DDR3
3 x PI49230-2X2B
2 x PSM-5760V
Fast forward to today and its honestly been a huge headache. Initially after the first boot, I was having issues with the board either not detecting my keyboard or locking up entirely. So I had spent some time reading the manual and had sorted out howe to reset the BIO to factory defaults.
So I did what anyone else does and I pulled the motherboard and found that there were a 2 standoffs that didn’t correlate to any holes so I had assumed the board maybe had died. Reached out to the seller to request a new board ands the sent one over. Out of curiosity I put the board on a test bench to tinker around and behold it boots? I though ok, maybe that wasn’t the issue, after a quick bios check, and adding one PCIe card it would bios lock, so I had assumed ok maybe it is dead.
New board arrived, and I had assembled it in the chassis(after removing the problematic standoffs) I verified a few times that everything was in order before booting and on first boot it boot locks…again… seemingly on bios code B4. I have since spent 4 hours along with a few friends troubleshooting various things and still no luck. Ubuntu doesn’t recognize any drives (attached to the board directly or to the backplanes) and it still will lock up during post for some unknown reason. The board is on BIOS version 3.0 and the new version don’t have any relevant updates so here I am, asking if anyone else has had this issue.
Not sure what else to try, the backplanes don’t work with my desktop (No Post) and directly adding the drive bypassing the backplanes also yields no success.
Thanks in advance and hopefully I’m just an idiot 