Hello all,
I recently purchased two new Xeon x5660 processors for my Dell Poweredge T410 tower server. When I installed the two new processors and connected the power cable to my machine, it looks like it tries to boot up (LED lights flash on the front for a half second) and then it powers down. It keeps trying to power cycle over and over again but just won't stay "on" for more than a half-second. I tried removing the 2nd processor and only booting up with one processor, same result. I tried swapping the two processors around to go in different slots on the motherboard, and followed the same method as before (tried booting up with two installed, then just one) but the same result happened. I then put my old Xeon e5504 back in (just a single processor) and it booted right back up again.
I'm wondering if this is some sort of incompatibility that I didn't know about with the x5660 processors or if it could possibly be a Power supply related issue. I'm assuming that where it can't turn on, the draw from either the Motherboard or the power supply is too much for the system to handle. I'd rather not throw more money at the thing if a new power supply won't fix the issue. I haven't tried upgrading the BIOS yet but I doubt that would prevent the server from actually powering up.
Right now I have a non-redundant 520W power supply. Here's the specs as they are today:
(2) Sticks of RAM- 32 GB DDR3 (16GB per stick) *Sorry I don't have the exact speed handy
(4) 4TB hard drives connected to internal S100 SATA controller.
(2) 3TB hard drives connected using PERC 6/i PCI express SAS controller card and SAS to SATA converter cables/kit.
(1) PCI Gigabit NIC card
(1) Xeon e5504 4-Core Processor (80w) *current
***New processors***
(2) Xeon x5660 6-core processors (95w) per processor
Any help would definitely be appreciated, I don't believe that I received two DOA processors...
Thanks,
Chris