lukyjay
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Hi
Recently I bought a new Supermicro X11SSM-F motherboard, Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 and Kingston KVR21E15D8/16 16GB DDR4 ECC ram. Put this together with an old case and an old TX705W (750w Corsair) PSU.
My intention is to run FreeNAS on this server.
Firstly I didn't have a VGA cable for the onboard, so I tried to insert my Radeon 7870 just so I could configure the bios and install FreeNAS. Then I'd use it headless. There was no signal from the graphics card so today I went out and bought a VGA cable. Video now works fine.
However the computer started to randomly turn off, then wouldn't turn back on. When I hit the power button the fans would nudge a little and the lights would flash but it'd never stay on. I unplugged some harddrives (originally had 8, went down to 6) and it worked. Then it died, same thing, only 5 harddrives would work. Then it died, same thing, only 4 harddrives would work. Then it died, same thing so I used it with no harddrives and now even that is dying.
I managed to login to IPMI before it died and can see this error in the event log, but I don't think it is the cause because the motherboard passes POST just fine and gets past the GRUB bootloader on a USB drive in most cases.
Error-Unrecoverable video controller failure. - Assertion
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? I don't have any other CPUs of this socket, DDR4 ECC ram or spare PSUs so it's difficult to troubleshoot.
Is it likely my PSU has died, or could these be the symptoms of something else?
Thanks
Recently I bought a new Supermicro X11SSM-F motherboard, Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 and Kingston KVR21E15D8/16 16GB DDR4 ECC ram. Put this together with an old case and an old TX705W (750w Corsair) PSU.
My intention is to run FreeNAS on this server.
Firstly I didn't have a VGA cable for the onboard, so I tried to insert my Radeon 7870 just so I could configure the bios and install FreeNAS. Then I'd use it headless. There was no signal from the graphics card so today I went out and bought a VGA cable. Video now works fine.
However the computer started to randomly turn off, then wouldn't turn back on. When I hit the power button the fans would nudge a little and the lights would flash but it'd never stay on. I unplugged some harddrives (originally had 8, went down to 6) and it worked. Then it died, same thing, only 5 harddrives would work. Then it died, same thing, only 4 harddrives would work. Then it died, same thing so I used it with no harddrives and now even that is dying.
I managed to login to IPMI before it died and can see this error in the event log, but I don't think it is the cause because the motherboard passes POST just fine and gets past the GRUB bootloader on a USB drive in most cases.
Error-Unrecoverable video controller failure. - Assertion
Does anyone have any idea what is causing this? I don't have any other CPUs of this socket, DDR4 ECC ram or spare PSUs so it's difficult to troubleshoot.
Is it likely my PSU has died, or could these be the symptoms of something else?
Thanks