Dell Poweredge 2850

[DarkOC]

Hey Lads,

I've taken my company mail server offline and installed two new Dell supplied CPUs, put everything together turned it on and nothing, the lights/fans are on but no post/video or response of any kind. I went back to the older CPU with exact configuration and it still won't post. If you had any ideas I'd be very very grateful to hear them.

Thank you,

D.

 

[Cob]

Tried clearing the CMOS?

 

[malcolm]

There's always the obvious comment: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Another old adage of wisdom:

If it used to work and now it doesn't, the last thing you did just broke it."

Check all power connections, did you have to unplug anything to swap CPU's? Has the PSU died of fright at the extra load from the new parts? Try the parts in another system, of course you won't have anything else that you can use them in...........

 

[nightmare99]

Which CPUs did you upgrade from & to? Did you check to see if a BIOS update was required before changing the CPUs?

 

[DarkOC]

Thanks for the replies lads, the CPUs fried the mobo. Luckily (kind of) I had another 2850 and swapped the SCSI controller, this was an Exchange box but the box I swapped over from was a DNS server/secondary domain controller so Exchange is not working correctly due to kerberos authentication and other DNS related fun. I've had some serious fun today already... Anyway I've ordered a 2850 exact config box and I'm hoping that gets everything up and running.

Thanks again.