- Sep 12, 2013
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I own a Dell Precision T7400 (2 x Xeon E5430, Dell RW199 motherboard, 1000W Dell redundant server PSU, Nvidia Quadro FX 4600, 4 x 2GB Hynix ECC RAM, Hitachi Deskstar HDD). It has been working fine until today when I went to wake it from sleep, where it failed to wake up. I turned it off and tried rebooting but I began getting immediate shutoffs where it would boot for a couple of seconds and then just shut back off. I did the normal troubleshooting but still got nothing. I removed all of the components (RAM, GPU, HDD, etc) and I was then getting it to stay on, but still wouldn't POST. I plugged the HDD and GPU back up then started testing the RAM.
I then put in one stick of RAM and magically it was booting again, so I imagined that it was probably my RAM that was faulty. I was able to get it to boot into Windows no problem, so I then added a second stick and was still able to get it to boot. The third stick caused the no boot again, so I took it out and set it aside thinking I had found the culprit. I put the fourth in and it still wouldn't boot back up. I took it out thinking I had two bad sticks, but then it wouldn't boot again at all, even with the original stick I tried.
I then put the RAM back in and unplugged the GPU, where I could get it to stay on again, but no way of knowing if it was able to POST or not without being able to see anything (other than the high pitched beep informing me that it was unplugged). I tested the HDD and it seems to be okay. I have no way of testing the RAM in another machine since it is ECC and I don't want to try a different GPU because it is currently turning on (I don't want to move it again). Anyone have any ideas of what could be causing these issues?
I then put in one stick of RAM and magically it was booting again, so I imagined that it was probably my RAM that was faulty. I was able to get it to boot into Windows no problem, so I then added a second stick and was still able to get it to boot. The third stick caused the no boot again, so I took it out and set it aside thinking I had found the culprit. I put the fourth in and it still wouldn't boot back up. I took it out thinking I had two bad sticks, but then it wouldn't boot again at all, even with the original stick I tried.
I then put the RAM back in and unplugged the GPU, where I could get it to stay on again, but no way of knowing if it was able to POST or not without being able to see anything (other than the high pitched beep informing me that it was unplugged). I tested the HDD and it seems to be okay. I have no way of testing the RAM in another machine since it is ECC and I don't want to try a different GPU because it is currently turning on (I don't want to move it again). Anyone have any ideas of what could be causing these issues?
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