How long have you let it run? IPMI takes several minutes to boot from a power-off state. It also has to complete booting before the rest of the machine does the equiv of a power-on. It could be up to 5min before you see a bios prompt.
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 1:43 AM, Sam's Lists <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've bought all the parts to build a 1U server. The motherboard is an > X11SCM-LN8F. I've got a Xeon processor, 64 GB of RAM, and a supermicro > chassis. > > I've assembled the system and it flashes up a message about IPMI when it's > turned on, and then nothing happens. I can't get into the bios (or even > press the caps lock key and get the keyboard caps lock led to light up). > > Any ideas as to what to try? > > Anyone in town specialize in building rackmount servers? I wouldn't mind > paying someone to figure out what I did wrong and fix the whole thing. > > I'm not really sure otherwise how to proceed, since I can't figure out if > it's the cpu, the ram, or the motherboard. (If I had spares I guess I > could, but I only have the one motherboard and the one cpu). > > Thanks > Sam > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
