First time building a home server, not new to building computers but definitely new when it comes to learning about servers and networking. Long story short, creating a server to hold all of my media files that a separate plex box will access for my plex server. Ran across a build while doing research from another site and decided to go forward with it and use the components below to create an unraid server.
Motherboard: supermicro x9scm-f
CPU: Xeon E3-1270 SR00N 3.4ghz quad core LGA 1155
Ram: Dell Poweredge R210 II 16gb (4x 4gb) DDR3-1600 PC3-12800E ECC UDIMM
Problem is I cannot seem to get the computer to post. Everything is put together (mobo, cpu, psu, ram, cpu fan and case fans), hook up onboard vga to monitor and cannot get anything out of it. Did a little research on the board and learned a bit about the IPMI feature so I went that route thinking i could access the bios to change settings using IPMIView. I was able to find the computer and IP but it is password protected and i used every combination i found online that people said was the default but it wouldnt let me get past, nothing worked. At another deadend. I was about to buy another mobo thinking maybe i have a bad board and when i was on ebay i read a comment from a buyer stating they were having issues with the supermicro board in the beginning not being able to get through password protection in IPMI as well (unsure if they were having post issues or not, sent a message but no response yet). But this person said they were able to get past it after research and finding he could boot to USB with freeDOS and updated the bios to reset everything. I am unsure if this will fix my issue or similar as i said, i am new to this side of computing. If this is my next step, can someone give me some help, guidance, step by steps please.
I know for now i would like to be able to access the computer via the vga port, once i become more familiar with what I am doing then most likely IPMI will be a better solution.
THANK YOU
Motherboard: supermicro x9scm-f
CPU: Xeon E3-1270 SR00N 3.4ghz quad core LGA 1155
Ram: Dell Poweredge R210 II 16gb (4x 4gb) DDR3-1600 PC3-12800E ECC UDIMM
Problem is I cannot seem to get the computer to post. Everything is put together (mobo, cpu, psu, ram, cpu fan and case fans), hook up onboard vga to monitor and cannot get anything out of it. Did a little research on the board and learned a bit about the IPMI feature so I went that route thinking i could access the bios to change settings using IPMIView. I was able to find the computer and IP but it is password protected and i used every combination i found online that people said was the default but it wouldnt let me get past, nothing worked. At another deadend. I was about to buy another mobo thinking maybe i have a bad board and when i was on ebay i read a comment from a buyer stating they were having issues with the supermicro board in the beginning not being able to get through password protection in IPMI as well (unsure if they were having post issues or not, sent a message but no response yet). But this person said they were able to get past it after research and finding he could boot to USB with freeDOS and updated the bios to reset everything. I am unsure if this will fix my issue or similar as i said, i am new to this side of computing. If this is my next step, can someone give me some help, guidance, step by steps please.
I know for now i would like to be able to access the computer via the vga port, once i become more familiar with what I am doing then most likely IPMI will be a better solution.
THANK YOU
