Heya folks, I have a fair number of nodes here within my home lab their all identical DELL CS24-NV7's with a motherboard model of: Gigabyte Dual AMD - GA-3CESL-RH Rev: 1.7
I'm having a right pig here, and I have tried many many ways to configure this, but first I will give you a general overview..
A node consisting of dual - quad cores, 16GB RAM, 80GB HDD, 1000mbit NIC and that's it's. .
So anyway I have a number of nVidia GTX 570 cards and some PCI-E x16 extenders, external 750watt 35amp PSU is running the card alone.. but for the life of this everytime the GTX 570 card is in the slot it will never get past the BIOS and just hangs!
Removing the card and restarting just fixes everything and the node runs just as well as it has ever done..
I've got the latest BIOS, Version 1.84 IIRC, the GTX card was produced a year before the motherboard IIRC, it is also suited very well to version 2.0 of the PCI-E standard, and from that I see the PCI-E bridge on this motherboard is running the version 3 standard, the PCI-E slot is running with nothing in it apart from the GTX card, I had it with the riser in, even the riser, an extender.. Even an x1 to x16 extender running through USB3 cable..
I've tried powering it with the server PSU, or using one 6pin from the server PSU and the other from another supply..
What else... Well I think that's taken about two to three hours.. I'm a bit lost.. Baffled even.. This card running external to the chassis on another PSU supply using ubuntu within my cluster should be sound, the year of manufacturing of all products is around the same time, IIRC the board was produced within a year of the card..
Any help would be most welcome, i'm either just not supplying it enough power from the PSU, the cards dead already of the board itself is totally incompatible, but for me version two x16 PCI-E bus should be able to handle just about most cards regardless. It is a fairly well used communications standard regardless of its sector of use, consumer, business, retail even enterprise..
So folks, any help would be awesome, I have ten of these nodes, all identical running Ubuntu server 14.4LTS with a minimal install mainly using the command line and I would go ahead and use the standard nVidia drivers avaliable, nothing over clocked and all this kit is like new and hardly used..
