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T310 errors E122x and E1000 after adding a GT730 GPU card
Hi,
I have had an old T310 server that I had working with Windows 10 happily enough, but needed some extra GPU power, so I bought and fitted a cheap GT 730 8x PCIE card. However, after I fitted it the server no longer boots and has various errors on the LCD panel. Two E122 errors and E1000. Have I somehow caused the demise of the system board?
I know there is a power limit of 25W (I believe the GT 730 is on that limit) on the slot but I didn't expect it to die. Have I killed it or is there a way to reset things? Clearing nvram already tried.
Dell-Dheeraj
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December 19th, 2022 03:00
Hi @d360ltd,
I would suggest you start with taking the server to its minimum to post configuration, which is removing everything from the server internally and externally, except for the following;
Try powering up the server under that configuration, if the server still fails to post then it is one of the devices above that is causing the issue. Before replacing anything you may check each are seated correctly.
Now if the server DOES post after taking to a minimum to post, then you will want to power back down and then individually add the removed devices back, until one causes the issue to reappear, identifying the part that had failed.
d360ltd
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December 19th, 2022 05:00
Thanks Dheeraj, I will try all that, but it's strange everything was working fine before I plugged in the GPU. I have since tested the GPU in a PC and it is working fine.
I take it that this could be a failure of the system board, is it common to have the system board fail just by inserting a PCIe card? I've put many a card in many a PC in the past but never a server. Although the server is surplus to requirements as a server, I was trying to put it to some use instead of discarding it to the computer graveyard.
Ian.
d360ltd
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January 3rd, 2023 03:00
@Dell-Dheeraj With a bit of fiddling around I managed to get the base system working again, unfortunately I'm not entirely sure what has been going on, could be bad connections on leads or something. Anyway, it turns out that I could not have the PCIe NVME card and the Nvidia GT 730 GPU installed at the same time, due to power issues on the PCIe bus I guess, throwing up errors. So I installed a SATA SSD drive using the spare SATA power connector to the DVD drive and now have Windows 10 Pro installed and using the GT 730 GPU.
All seems to be working but I can not utilise the H700 and the existing RAID array as well, do to the PCIe power limit but ha ho, that's life.
All this experimenting has left me thinking that in the long run I haven't really got anywhere and that the 10 year old server hardware is just not really worth the effort to turn it into a usable desktop PC, at least not for the purpose I had in mind. One big show stopper I have now discovered is that the Xeon CPU does not support AVX instructions, so it will not install a piece of photo editing software I wanted to use on it, making it useless for the task I had in mind anyway.
Regards,
Ian.