Dell PowerEdge 2950 PCIe Training Error — No PCIe cards inside

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So I recently found myself an old PowerEdge 2950, and when I turned it on (after me almost having a heart attack by the sound of it starting up), during post it halted with an error of PCIe Training Error : Internal PCIe Card. The weird thing there, is that there aren't any PCIe cards in the 3 slots. empty slots The rightmost (bottom, in the picture) slot however, seems to come out of the board as an expansion of some sort? Could that be a problem? In case I'm missing something really obvious, I've included a shot of the whole system. enter image description here

Best Answer

The PCI riser card right in the middle? Yank it out.

If your server boots the it's either a bad PCI riser, or the PCI slot has "gone bad". I know there's a not-noobish explanation for that, but I don't remember it.

If your server doesn't boot with the riser out the it's time for a new motherboard/server.