Motherboard is diagnosed
I have now gotten the answer from Dustin, apparently in one of the sockets there was bent CPU pins so they are returning the motherboard to me.
Hopefully it isn't broken off so that you could fix the pin and use the motherboard, otherwise I'll just have to buy a new one. They have gone down a bit in price so it is not that big of a hit even tho it means more waiting game :(
Hopefully it isn't broken off so that you could fix the pin and use the motherboard, otherwise I'll just have to buy a new one. They have gone down a bit in price so it is not that big of a hit even tho it means more waiting game :(
Well time to send the motherboard in for RMA
Well I have now gotten a confirmal from Dustin that I am allowed to send the motherboard in for RMA so I spent yesterday of demontage and stuff.
Hopefully I'll get the answer rather quick so I know what to do. But I'll probably not see another motherboard this year :/
Hopefully I'll get the answer rather quick so I know what to do. But I'll probably not see another motherboard this year :/
So far no dice
Plugging in the server PSU yesterday unfortunatly confirmed my fears, the motherboard is dead. The power LED light that is supposed to light up when you connect a powersupply never lit up and I am afraid that the motherboard might be short circuitet.
If it was my EPS12v connector or not I'll leave to the dustin support to judge, I have filed an RMA and see what I get for responce from that.
If it was my connector I will ofc just by a new motherboard, sure it will hurt my wallet but I haven't come this far to just give up lol
And I would also have noticed, because it makes a distinctive sound and smell when burnt electronics are being made :P
If it was my EPS12v connector or not I'll leave to the dustin support to judge, I have filed an RMA and see what I get for responce from that.
If it was my connector I will ofc just by a new motherboard, sure it will hurt my wallet but I haven't come this far to just give up lol
And I would also have noticed, because it makes a distinctive sound and smell when burnt electronics are being made :P
It has arrived!
I have now after waiting over the weekend for my new PSU to arrive and I just got a text saying it is lying at my local postoffice ready for me to pick it up wuhu!!
Hopefully I'll atleast get a chance to turn it on before I go to bed because today I am going to spend coding at Proxxi.
Oh yeah, if you didn't know, the war of the internet has just begun. Look at this awesome blag post from my friend Etu about it: http://elis.nu/index.php/2010/12/my-day-with-internet-war-part-1/
Hopefully I'll atleast get a chance to turn it on before I go to bed because today I am going to spend coding at Proxxi.
Oh yeah, if you didn't know, the war of the internet has just begun. Look at this awesome blag post from my friend Etu about it: http://elis.nu/index.php/2010/12/my-day-with-internet-war-part-1/
Oh well... Time to get the real deal
Well it seems like the motherboard really did not like my own made EPS12v, and I had actually planned that this might happen.
It is after all an very different type of system if you compare what system the PSU usually runs, an single 95-125W CPU, 1-2 HDDs and a 150-225W Graphics card. It was a bit mean trying to run an dual socket system of it and my connector converting skills probably have to be upgraded before I could successfully do such conversion.
So with all that said and done I have now ordered an real 350W server PSU, with 80+ Gold certification and 2 4-pins EPS12v that can be combined into an SSI12v (which seems to be what the server world calls EPS12v 8-pin connectors) and 1 SSI12v 8-pin connector.
So back to the waiting game... atleast they had them in stock so I should have it at the latest by next tuesday
It is after all an very different type of system if you compare what system the PSU usually runs, an single 95-125W CPU, 1-2 HDDs and a 150-225W Graphics card. It was a bit mean trying to run an dual socket system of it and my connector converting skills probably have to be upgraded before I could successfully do such conversion.
So with all that said and done I have now ordered an real 350W server PSU, with 80+ Gold certification and 2 4-pins EPS12v that can be combined into an SSI12v (which seems to be what the server world calls EPS12v 8-pin connectors) and 1 SSI12v 8-pin connector.
So back to the waiting game... atleast they had them in stock so I should have it at the latest by next tuesday
First run, here we go!
So yesterday just before going to bed I was fiddling with the server and I was going to give it the first go and check if everything was okay.
Well, they aren't... When I managed to get the motherboard started it started to complain with 5 short beeps and 1 long to divide them which according to the information I could find on the net means that the CPU doesn't like life, oh crap I thought.
I swapped the CPUs to see if that could be the error, and of course I double check that everything was fastened as it should be, seated as it should be and not strained in anyway.
Now the motherboard doesn't do anything and I was getting more nervous, I'd hate to brick an motherboard that costs roughly 420€ but then when inspecting the EPS12v connector that I had made I noticed that it was not fastened as it should be so it is is probably that it is not getting power from where it assumes it will and then refuses to start.
I will be repairing the EPS12v connector today and hope for the best, otherwise I'll have to send the motherboard in for repair which would suck because that'd probably take a few weeks.
Atleast here are some pictures of the fully assembled system:
Well, they aren't... When I managed to get the motherboard started it started to complain with 5 short beeps and 1 long to divide them which according to the information I could find on the net means that the CPU doesn't like life, oh crap I thought.
I swapped the CPUs to see if that could be the error, and of course I double check that everything was fastened as it should be, seated as it should be and not strained in anyway.
Now the motherboard doesn't do anything and I was getting more nervous, I'd hate to brick an motherboard that costs roughly 420€ but then when inspecting the EPS12v connector that I had made I noticed that it was not fastened as it should be so it is is probably that it is not getting power from where it assumes it will and then refuses to start.
I will be repairing the EPS12v connector today and hope for the best, otherwise I'll have to send the motherboard in for repair which would suck because that'd probably take a few weeks.
Atleast here are some pictures of the fully assembled system:
Some pictures from the work I did during monday
I am now going to switch over to english so that the Gentoo Hardened folks can understand what I am writing :)
I haven't had the time to work any more on the cluster since monday but I have the pictures from monday when I did the secondary EPS12v contact.
I first tried to solder the cables to the pin to make 6-pins into 8-pins but that wasn't such a good idea.
The added thickness that the soldering added to the pin so that the pin didn't even go all the way in so it would not work.
So I took a new pair of cables and stripped them rather far, about 2cm instead of 0.5cm and just used heatshrink to wrap them together with the existing cables. Seeing as I do not have access to an hairdryer or other hot-air blowing source I had to improvise, I set the soldering iron to 350 C and put the heatshrink a few millimeters above the hottest part of the soldering iron and it worked surprisingly well :)
First attempt with soldering the cables together, not that successfull :(
Heatshrink to the rescue! It worked surprisingly well with the heatshrink and the results are heck alot cleaner looking than the soldering ones.
Hopefully I'll be able to test the server today seeing as I haven't had the time to do that right, let's hope that I do not get to smell the awful smell of burnt electronics from my makeshift EPS12v connector frying the PSU :P
I haven't had the time to work any more on the cluster since monday but I have the pictures from monday when I did the secondary EPS12v contact.
I first tried to solder the cables to the pin to make 6-pins into 8-pins but that wasn't such a good idea.
The added thickness that the soldering added to the pin so that the pin didn't even go all the way in so it would not work.
So I took a new pair of cables and stripped them rather far, about 2cm instead of 0.5cm and just used heatshrink to wrap them together with the existing cables. Seeing as I do not have access to an hairdryer or other hot-air blowing source I had to improvise, I set the soldering iron to 350 C and put the heatshrink a few millimeters above the hottest part of the soldering iron and it worked surprisingly well :)
First attempt with soldering the cables together, not that successfull :(
Heatshrink to the rescue! It worked surprisingly well with the heatshrink and the results are heck alot cleaner looking than the soldering ones.
Hopefully I'll be able to test the server today seeing as I haven't had the time to do that right, let's hope that I do not get to smell the awful smell of burnt electronics from my makeshift EPS12v connector frying the PSU :P
