Dell R730 SFF

                64 GB

                Dual Xeon

                8 x SAS 600GB 15K drives

                PERC card in IT mode

                1 x 2TB 3.5” SATA boot drive mounted on a MAIWO KT048 PCIE 3.0 Converter board

                1 x CDROM R/W drive

                2 x Platinum 750W power supplies and 2 x Platinum 1100W power supplies

 

BIOS: 2.15.0

Firmware : 2.83.83.83

Lifecycle Firmware : 2.83.83.83

 

Fault:

System will not power on. Front display sometimes flickers amber then back to blue.

Error message is

“VLTO204 System board power is outside of range”

In minimal config (CPU1, DIMM in A1, Riser 2 and 3 in)

 

riser 1 out

CPU2 out

DIMM,s A2, B1, B2 out

NIC out

PERC card out

Drives out

Backplane disconnected

CDROM disconnected

 

IDRAC is accessible

System Log  and Lifecycle Log both show

                “VLT0204 The system board DIMM PG voltage is outside of range.”

 

There are 6 LED’s on the rear right side of the Mainboard

On power on LED’s 0 and 1 flash on for about 1 second then 0 and 6 begin flashing at about a 1 second rate.

Also if the NIC is in the green NIC LED’s start flashing in unison at about a 1 second rate

                Fan 4 is the only fan running on power on.

Pulling both power leads and both power supplies. Waiting till all activity lights go out then re-inserting them sometimes fix’s the problem. Once running the doesn’t seem to be an issue until the next shutdown.