Just finished putting my new dual xeon rig together, Power on and not much happens

[coolred]

Asus PC-DL, 2x 1.6LV Xeons, 2x 512MB Patriot XBL PC3200, ATI Radeon 8500DV, 2x Raptor 36GB, optical and floppy drive. Thats all I have installed right now, running off an Antec True power 550watt EPS PSU. The fans and drives all seem to be getting power. I do get an error about CPU system test failed or something like that but nothing shows on screen. Tried each CPU individually, don't get the error when they are installed by themselves, but still nothing happens. Not sure if its the cpu's or maybe the motherboard or something else all together.

I know the video card and memory are both good as they have been tested in another system. SO I am assumeing its motherboard or CPU related. The board is brand new from zipzoomfly, the CPU's are OEM pulls from ebay. My guess would be the CPU's but I have no way of knowing, anythign I can do that I haven't though of yet?

 

[mechBgon]

Brace for a hugely dumb question: you got the secondary 6-pin power plugged in, right?

Also, say again what CPUs you have, exactly? Stepping info or full specs...?

 

[neuralfx]

I kind of doubt you are having a hardware failure, especially on the Xeons. I don't feel like looking it up but do you know if that board requires Registered/ECC memory? If so, does that memory fit the spec? As MechBgon pointed out make sure you have the extra EPS connectors connected. Are you just getting a POST beep and nothing on the screen?
-neural

 

[coolred]

The extra connector is 8 pin actually and yes its connected. The board supports unbuffered memory which is what I am running.


The CPU's are 1.6LV xeons SL6XK, 1.3V
http://www.cpu-world.com/sspec/SL/SL6XK.html

 

[LTC8K6]

The board doesn't appear to support PC3200 memory. Just 2100 and 2700.

It doesn't look like it supports 1.6GHz Xeons, either.

 

[Mrvile]

It wouldn't matter if they didn't support PC3200, the ram would just be downclocked to match whatever it has to. And the board should support the 1.6 Xeons...

 

[LTC8K6]

Just going by what ASUS says.....

 

[coolred]

Yeah the ram should downclock and when I get done with it it will be running at PC3200 speed or better. And it does work with these processors, none of this stuff may be supported but I know it works with it.

 

[mechBgon]

Try swapping the two CPUs to opposite sockets, then try just one CPU at a time in whichever is considered the primary socket.

 

[coolred]

Did that already, nothign worked. P4Northwood over at 2cpu said he thinks its a problem with the pins not completetly contecting whatever they contact in the socket, he has advised me to remove the sockets and tighten the contacts, sounds like fun.