Hi folks,
I've just bought two Broadcom 5719 QP and since the 2 R420 that'll benefit from them are far away (200 miles) and involve a downtime of the whole infrastructure I wanted to test them in a normal PC equipped with PCI express slots (both 4x and 16x). The motherboard is Asus so I trust it. Other network cards like HP NC360T are seen without any problems within the same Asus motherboards.
I unfolded one of the card and installed it in the PC but it did not even boot (the PC didn't emit the beep and the keyboard leds flashed just once) I could hear only the sound of the fans,
I tried both the 4x and 16x slot. I also removed all the cards present in the PC and the PC still refused to start normally.
From my tests should I guess that the card is somehow defected?
By the way the hard-paper package reports Dell logo but the card doesn't have any Dell logo, just "Made in China" and if I'm not mistaken assembled in the late 2012.
One more thing I noticed is a metal bar close to the connector that I don't always see in pictures.
Unfortunately I don't have any Dell servers close to me.
I just would like to know if what I tried is sufficient enough to go back to the dealer and ask for the replacement.
Thanks in advance,
Alex