Trying to get an old 1950 (version III) set up with Ubuntu. Specs (originally) were dual Intel E5440 Xeons, 16 GB ram, PERC 5i raid controller attached to 2 Seagate 73 GB 2.5 inch drives in raid 1 and 2 WD 2 TB drives in raid 1. Installed Ubuntu version 14.04 with no trouble, rebooted machine after install completed and got first error - machine locked right after the Grub screen and scrolled the e1410 error on the front LCD. Took off cover, checked cpu sockets for bent pins, anything like that, thought perhaps it was a fluke and booted machine again. This time it booted normally. Ran the apt updates on the machine, had to reboot again, got e1410 error again. Decided to troubleshoot further by swapping cpus around to see if the error followed the processor. Got error again on the same cpu so I said "Aha, it's a bad cpu socket!". Swapped motherboard from another 1950, booted normally but again locked up once the OS had booted and was showing a login prompt. Again showing e1410 on front LCD. Thought that perhaps there actually was something wrong with one of the CPUs, tested both of them individually with the second socket empty - e1410 with both. Thought perhaps ram might have something to do with it - swapped out different ram and same result. Swapped in a third processor just on the off-chance that both of these processors had identical hardware issues at exactly the same time, shows the same error. What's truly annoying is the error is completely random as far as I can tell - sometimes it will hang before the operating system even starts to boot, right after the grub screen. Sometimes it will boot and run normally for hours within the OS and then lock up. I left it running over night sitting on the BIOS screen to see if it was something OS related and it never locked up, but after that I rebooted it into Ubuntu and it's been sitting there for over 3 hours with no evidence of a problem. I have done a lot of searching on this and I have found people have had this issue for reasons ranging from a bad raid controller battery to old BIOS versions to an apparently random interaction between their 3rd chakra and the 12th moon of Saturn. Does anyone have a suggestion as to something other than a CPU, motherboard, memory that might cause randomly occurring CPU e1410 errors?
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