Weird new build :S

matthewhotdude

matthewhotdude

matthewhotdude

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this is the spec, for my server build

Fractal Design Define XL Full Tower Case - Titanium Grey

Icy Box IB-555SSK 5-Bay SATASAS Hard Drive Backplane

Gigabyte GA-EP45T-UD3LR Intel P45 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR3 Motherboard

Patriot Viper 2 Sector 5 4GB (2x2GB) PC3-18000C9 2250MHz Dual Channel Memory Kit

Antec TruePower New Modular 550W Power Supply - With FREE 3D Mark 2011 Advance

Lian Li IB-01B PCI-Express 5-Port SATA-II & 1-Port e-SATA RAID Controller

Samsung SpinPoint F4 EcoGreen 2TB SATA-II 32MB Cache - OEM (HD204UI)

Intel Pentium Dual-Core E6700 "LGA775 Core 2" 3.20GHz (1066FSB) - Retail

Asus GeForce 8400GS 512MB DDR2 Low Profile PCI-Express Graphics Card

LG GH22NS50 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - Retail


Now for the problem, a weird one, when I do a hard boot, at turn on the fans will spin up for 5 seconds then everything turns off, then back on for 5 seconds then back off, this repeats it's self a few times before the computer actually boots up, any ideas?

Oh and another thing, the power light on the case is constantly blinking as if it's in sleep mode
 
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This is your server build you enquired about the other day? My first thought was PSU, but that PSU should be more than capable of powering what you have currently and should do a fully loaded server.

How does the Icy Box bay work out though in that case and why'd you go for that when you've got ten bays available?

Really interesting build though, what's it's primary use?
 
Brian8bit said:
This is your server build you enquired about the other day? My first thought was PSU, but that PSU should be more than capable of powering what you have currently and should do a fully loaded server.

How does the Icy Box bay work out though in that case and why'd you go for that when you've got ten bays available?

Really interesting build though, what's it's primary use?
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Yea thats the build, why interesting? I went for the icybox as I wanted easily accessible drives that were hot swappable, Just wish I could sort this problem out, once it's booted up it seems fine, it's just getting it booted thats the problem
 
matthewhotdude said:
Yea thats the build, why interesting? I went for the icybox as I wanted easily accessible drives that were hot swappable, Just wish I could sort this problem out, once it's booted up it seems fine, it's just getting it booted thats the problem
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I just find server builds in general interesting. I like playing with servers and things. It interests me and how we've come now to a point where most homes will have at least one machine that acts as a server of some sort.

The only thing I can think of at the minute is to try the one at a time method of making sure things boot. Try it with just the CPU and one stick of RAM. Then try it with the other stick of RAM. Then try it with both sticks to see if that's the problem. Then try it with the SATA controller card in and see if that's causes the problem, try it without the Icy Box in, then with it in, yada yada yada.
 
What I have noticed is that the CPU fan takes a while to start spinning after everything else is on, I know it wont be a heat problem, but could the motherboard be shutting down because it think the fans failed, maybe?
 
matthewhotdude said:
What I have noticed is that the CPU fan takes a while to start spinning after everything else is on, I know it wont be a heat problem, but could the motherboard be shutting down because it think the fans failed, maybe?
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Possibly. I'm not sure how you would go about testing that though. Other than checking BIOS of course as it should be displayed in there.
 
Something you could do, is leave the rpm sensor on the motherboard header, but attach the +/- directly to a psu molex using one of those molex to 3pin fan adapters?

fiddly i know.
 
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