I had a Poweredge 840 that I was pretty sure the motherboard went bad in. I ordered a used 840 as a replacement. I assumed that since it was sas I could just pull out the drives that came in the new server and replace them with my old drives. On boot, I ran into all kinds of error messages. I cant even remember what they all were and should have written them down. Anyway, I thought that since I changed drives, maybe the sas controller was different (even though it looked idendtical), so I swapped out the sas controller. When booting, I am back to amber lights and no POST. This made me think that maybe the motherboard wasn't the problem at all in my old server and it was the sas controller instead. So I put the sas controller that came in the new server back in, but continue to have amber lights and no POST. The error indicators on the front panel jump all over the place. Is this normal?
I have videoed these lights and can give you the order:
BCD
B
ABD
AC
ABD
AB
D
A
AB
D
CD
AD
CD
ABD
D
Then an two short tone beep. No signal sent to monitor at all, it stays in sleep mode.
Thanks,
Todd