I purchased a used R910 (no warranty) with the intent of building a VMWare host to work on some credential programs.
It has the X16 backplane. I got it with one CPU, no HDD, and 32GB RAM. It would go through the POST process, and I was able to enter the H700 RAID BIOS without issue, but at the end of POST any other course of action (like System Setup (F2) or System Services (F10)) would fail immediately after POST with a CPU error.
I purchased 2 SLC3Q E7-4830 CPU's & U884K Heatsinks, and installed them with some Arctic thermal compound.
Now when it boots, it POSTs without errors... however. The fans start out on the lowest speed, and immediately following the Dell Logo screen at the beginning of the POST gradually increase one step at a time until they are at max RPM (6,000+). I can get into BIOS setup and configure things without issue. I can get into System Services, but everything is very very laggy, and attempts at firmware updates fail.
I am quite familiar with some of the smaller Dell servers (1850's through R430s), but this beast is a new animal to me.
Hope it is not a bad motherboard, but can anyone recommend some steps to determine the issue?
Please let me know if more information would help!
Thanks!