GA-7PESH3 will not boot.

[UpChuck]

GA-7PESH3, 2 processors Intel Xeon E5-2637v2, 64Gb RAM consisting of 8 Kingston KVR16R11D8/8, 1300Watt PSU, NVIDIA K2000. Will not post/boot, no keyboard activity. Anyone have any insight?

[dmdilks]

Just asking do you both 8 pin power connectors to the CPU connected.

[UpChuck]

Oh yes all 3 are plugged in. We are a company that builds high end systems since 1994. I just hate wasting hours tearing it down, swaping parts if it is something I am not aware of. We generally use MSI, Intel.... and others in the systems but I like this board so I thought we would try one...

[dmdilks]

I like to help but we don't get to many server boards here. About 99% single CPU boards. I download the book and you know that the book doesn't really tell you to much.

I did look at the front panel connector and that is something else too. But could you be off one pin. Plus are you getting any power at all to the board?

I did some check and the only thing might to do is putting in another CPU like a E5-1600 series to make sure that the bios is up to date. 

 

 

[UpChuck]

Always appreciate a response; you get more help from other users then Gigabyte it seems. I left an e-support request 4/9/2014 3:57 AM and have not gotten a response from them. About 12 years ago we had 20 or so Gigabyte boards that had SIMM sockets so warped you could not put SIMMs in them, one was here past the 14 day distributor period so we returned the new defective board to Gigabyte, they wanted to charge us $25 to replace their new defective board, never paid it never got the board back and have used several thousand other manufacturers boards since. Thought I would try this again…
The documentation is rather light; there are 4 of 5 other jumpers that are not listed. The BMC LED is solid for 30 seconds and then blinks so I know it is powering. I had one of our techs pull it and put it on a different power supply on a bench, same. I had him pull the memory and one processor and try it with different memory; same problems…we only have the V2 series processors and no other LGA 2011 processors. We don’t keep processors around long, they just lose value and we don’t go backwards with the technology. Without any way to identify the Bios it shipped with we are stuck. If I don’t get an answer from them today I will probably go with a different board for this run and return this one. I needed to finalize this configuration by next Tuesday so I  am in early to order another manufacturers board in case…

[sabins]

Have you figured out with this issue?
I have the same problem

[Cheeky Bastard]

I know this will be a little late new may have fixed the problem yourself but for those who are having this problem with the workstation motherboards I found it if you have a red LED below the ram under CPUs zero this usually means that the motherboard is unhappy with the ram. This does not necessarily mean the RAM incorrect RAM but that the motherboard just doesn't like it it prefers ECC RAM. Sometimes booting with a different set of RAM can help. I do hope they fix this problem in the next version. For DDR four RAM.