Author: intelligence
Subject: Issues with E3C224D4I-14S (No POST?)
Posted: 28 Jun 2020 at 9:50pm
I've been using this build for a couple of years now and for most part it's been working great, however now I can't seem to boot the system anymore. Friday night I realized that the box wasn't responding, the day after I fired up my IE10 VM to investigate the state of the box. IPMI was up and running, but when trying "Console Redirection" no image/video feed was shown.
Upon rebooting I was able to get into BIOS while hammering the DEL button and everything seemed fine. Trying to boot up my OS (FreeNAS) I had some issues as it seemed like the box kept dying during the OS boot. I figured that the USB with the OS on it was faulty so I switched it out, but it kept sporadically rebooting. At one point I was able to get the OS up and running, but it's only worked that one time out of perhaps 30 tries now.
I don't have a monitor with VGA making this hard to troubleshoot what's going on, but it seems the box is not POSTing at all anymore. Hammering DEL does nothing. Usually when I do that it beeps and lets me know I'm in BIOS settings, that doesn't happen anymore. Console Redirection gives me a blank screen.
I've tried removing all RAM and tried inserting them one by one in A1 slot, no dice. BMC led is blinking. I can access IPMI just fine. CPU fan spins up, drives spin up.
Eventlog in IPMI:
https://i.imgur.com/waQ7yUz.png
Specs:
E3C224D4I-14S (firmware: 0.18.00)
Intel Xeon E3-1241V3
4 x Kingston ValueRAM Server Premier 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L DIMM 240-pin
Any ideas what I can do now to try and find out what's wrong?
Subject: Issues with E3C224D4I-14S (No POST?)
Posted: 28 Jun 2020 at 9:50pm
I've been using this build for a couple of years now and for most part it's been working great, however now I can't seem to boot the system anymore. Friday night I realized that the box wasn't responding, the day after I fired up my IE10 VM to investigate the state of the box. IPMI was up and running, but when trying "Console Redirection" no image/video feed was shown.
Upon rebooting I was able to get into BIOS while hammering the DEL button and everything seemed fine. Trying to boot up my OS (FreeNAS) I had some issues as it seemed like the box kept dying during the OS boot. I figured that the USB with the OS on it was faulty so I switched it out, but it kept sporadically rebooting. At one point I was able to get the OS up and running, but it's only worked that one time out of perhaps 30 tries now.
I don't have a monitor with VGA making this hard to troubleshoot what's going on, but it seems the box is not POSTing at all anymore. Hammering DEL does nothing. Usually when I do that it beeps and lets me know I'm in BIOS settings, that doesn't happen anymore. Console Redirection gives me a blank screen.
I've tried removing all RAM and tried inserting them one by one in A1 slot, no dice. BMC led is blinking. I can access IPMI just fine. CPU fan spins up, drives spin up.
Eventlog in IPMI:
https://i.imgur.com/waQ7yUz.png
Specs:
E3C224D4I-14S (firmware: 0.18.00)
Intel Xeon E3-1241V3
4 x Kingston ValueRAM Server Premier 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L DIMM 240-pin
Any ideas what I can do now to try and find out what's wrong?