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Welp, looks like the legendary SR-2 has passed. No post, no bios codes, no beeps, nothin'. Tried different cpus, ram, no ram, no cpus, nothing changes. Checked jumpers. Checked for shorts.

Sad day.
 
lexluthermiester said:
What the heck? Why is Ireland withholding a parcel from the UK?!? That's just dumb.
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It to do with the European regulations on tariff, taric, custom charges etc. If the tariff is incorrectly used it will get refused by Irish Customs and get automatically send back to the sender.

Check the vrms for short you might need to check the data sheet to find gate, drain and source. Sounds like the power supply most likely faulty if you are not getting power to the board
 
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Abit of an update hoping to buy Asus p6x58d-e as it have Intel 930 cpu + stock cooler with 3 vengeance and 3 dominantor rams for a reasonable price even noticed that the board revision is 1.01g compared my broken one it 1.00g I could easily sell the vengeance/dominantor ram as I don't need mixed rams

Good news got the seller to give me the commit to buy option for the motherboard as mentioned above for €110 plus €15 delivery from Germany so I don't have to pay customs. So will be back up and running in about two or three weeks time. Once that done time to shop about online for hard drives upgrade as I'm limited in storage spaces in the old set up even spotted couple of 4tb 7200rpm for good price
 
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Update on the motherboard + rams + cpu it posted by dhl so could have it by the week or two. It being too long since my set up last turned on. At least I can spend the time to clean the case and tidy up the wiring might well clean the power supply in the process was clogged with dirt and fluff and it discoloured with smoke

Most of the wiring is done as well the case alot cleaner after a few hours wiping down :)
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Modified the led wires so I routed them to the three pin plug that powers the fan controller as it have 12v/5v/ground so I solder them in so it look tidy inside of the case than having too many molex adapters to power the leds :)
 
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lexluthermiester said:
You might have a dead motherboard. Have you tested with a spare PSU?
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Sounds like something somewhere shorted to ground on component level might not be power supply related but motherboard related or possible CPU short only ever seen one in a regular computer where the computer plays dead no matter what components been changed except the CPU itself
 
Edwired said:
Sounds like something somewhere shorted to ground on component level might not be power supply related but motherboard related or possible CPU short only ever seen one in a regular computer where the computer plays dead no matter what components been changed except the CPU itself
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Dell PSU's don't give a green light if they don't pass the internal tests and one of those tests is a short fault. Their PSU is very unlikely to be the problem.
 
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it back up and running only got the board this morning as well rotated the heatsink to make it clear the tall rams sticks
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Had to use the rams that came with the board since my old set of corsairs one or two of the dimms don't get along when fully populated as I think it possible failing
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Evga GTX 1060 6gb sc not working correctly for some reason after awhile it locks up the pc and green checkers along with stripes on screen it comes and goes if I tap the pcie bracket. So looks like either memory or gpu chip have weak solder joints
 
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Edwired said:
Sounds like something somewhere shorted to ground on component level might not be power supply related but motherboard related or possible CPU short only ever seen one in a regular computer where the computer plays dead no matter what components been changed except the CPU itself
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Without being able to test with another mobo, I think its the mobo.

How would I test the psu?

I have a Dell poweredge T620 btw.
 
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View attachment 252633it back up and running only got the board this morning as well rotated the heatsink to make it clear the tall rams sticksView attachment 252634Had to use the rams that came with the board since my old set of corsairs one or two of the dimms don't get along when fully populated as I think it possible failing
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Evga GTX 1060 6gb sc not working correctly for some reason after awhile it locks up the pc and green checkers along with stripes on screen it comes and goes if I tap the pcie bracket. So looks like either memory or gpu chip have weak solder joints
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Could be a GPU...BTW I recently killed my GTX 1070 TI....it was a static electricity from my hand...my fault I touched while it was working,trying to check the heat on GPU vrm ,forget that I didn't mount back plate...'tho I did that many times before and never ever something similar happened....now I am back on my trusted R9 Fury :banghead:
 
Zyll Goliat said:
Could be a GPU...BTW I recently killed my GTX 1070 TI....it was a static electricity from my hand...my fault I touched while it was working,trying to check the heat on GPU vrm ,forget that I didn't mount back plate...'tho I did that many times before and never ever something similar happened....now I am back on my trusted R9 Fury :banghead:
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Must be the clothes that you wore that can build up static electricity and you could have felt the shock while touching. With the graphic card I swapped it back to the Asus gtx 1050 to oc and it fine again. It something to do with the sag dislodging the chips when it getting warm causing it to green dots and freezing.

As for dell t620 you may need to get a digital multimeter (dmm) to test the the power supply to see if any of the voltages are present like 12v/5v/3.3v
 
Edwired said:
Must be the clothes that you wore that can build up static electricity and you could have felt the shock while touching. With the graphic card I swapped it back to the Asus gtx 1050 to oc and it fine again. It something to do with the sag dislodging the chips when it getting warm causing it to green dots and freezing.

As for dell t620 you may need to get a digital multimeter (dmm) to test the the power supply to see if any of the voltages are present like 12v/5v/3.3v
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I have a multimeter, how would I test them? It's not a normal consumer atx power supply.

These are the two items for power
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Dell MDCVH PowerEdge T620 Power Distribution Board

Dell MDCVH PowerEdge T620 Power Distribution Board via Flagship Tech
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Dell PowerEdge T620 Power Supplies

Genuine Dell power supplies for PowerEdge T620 servers. Tested and pulled from working servers with our 90-day warranty.
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Thank you
 
crazydrve` said:
I have a multimeter, how would I test them? It's not a normal consumer atx power supply.

These are the two items for power
store.flagshiptech.com

Dell MDCVH PowerEdge T620 Power Distribution Board

Dell MDCVH PowerEdge T620 Power Distribution Board via Flagship Tech
store.flagshiptech.com store.flagshiptech.com

Dell PowerEdge T620 Power Supplies

Genuine Dell power supplies for PowerEdge T620 servers. Tested and pulled from working servers with our 90-day warranty.
store.flagshiptech.com store.flagshiptech.com

Thank you
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Look at the connector that goes to the board unconnect and see if there's a green cable usually smaller than the rest of them that usually needed to be connected to black cable using a paper clip to turn it on externally
 
Edwired said:
Look at the connector that goes to the board unconnect and see if there's a green cable usually smaller than the rest of them that usually needed to be connected to black cable using a paper clip to turn it on externally
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Unfortunately I don't see any green cable on any of the cords that plugs into it.

Thanks
 
Don't know to be honest as I don't have dell t620 for testing purpose
 
crazydrve` said:
Its ok, thanks.
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Try uploading pictures of the board and power supply where the connector goes as I need to see what it looks like upclose
 
Is it me or is that 1060 sagging like hell.
 
Toothless said:
Is it me or is that 1060 sagging like hell.
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Wish it was sagging other than that it straight as a set square. Just tried to take a picture while holding the phone

Think I might have possibly solved the evga gtx 1060 6gb sc issues. Ran Aida64 to stress test the gpu while limited the fan to 25% it will make the graphic card extremely hot it was flat lining at 92c so decided to do the wiggle method it frozed from the first movement. So let it cool down and tried to wiggle it while running unigine heaven it froze again. Then something tells me the graphic card is not sitting correctly. Then I spotted the problem the bracket where the case screws go through was bent downward more than it should and the bottom part of the bracket was slightly bent forward. So I straighten the bracket and tested the wiggle method while running unigine heaven didn't freeze this time. So looks like it will work correctly, will have to do more testing later to confirm it working. Finger cross

Abit of an update with the gpu I have being thinking about the issues that the card experiencing disconnection during unigine heaven could be possibility the die chip flexing with heat. So had a bright idea looking for thinnest thermal pads possible and it just happens that my broken Asus p6x58d-e have the thinnest pads on the vrm and it turns out it a perfect height so cut it into four pieces so they can cover four corners of the gpu chip and soft enough to spread even pressure across the whole chip when the heatsink is on and fully screwed down. Since then it not causing too much of the temperature swing compare to before it was all over the place. So I might be onto something here. My gut feeling tells me that the card had a fall at some point causing fractures in some solder joints. But not knowing the full history as I could be completely wrong in saying that. And with the thinnest thermal pads in place I have to try and test games and other things to stress the card out just to see what effect it has will it improve or get worse is a big question.
 
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Great bad news the evga gtx 1060 sc shorted out something on the replacement Asus p6x58d-e as I can't get it to post anything on the monitor even swapped the graphic card for Asus gtx 1050ti same thing no post tried all of the other slots no post even swapped cpu for Intel 930 no post even checked socket pins nothing out of shape or broken. What weird the memok light comes on and goes out like nothing happens. I don't see any activity from the hard drive led. I am pretty sure the northbridge chip is toasted by the look of it since it controls the pcie slot and anything else that connected to it. So I'm considering taking a break for a few months to a year as I need to sort out major priorities since I can't afford to sort out my custom setup due to lack of funding and ongoing bills
 
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