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Does anybody know if the X5690 is compatible with the HP Proliant DL 360 G6?
I got a pair of X5690s and a DL 360 G6 but i am unable to get any video signal. The fans spin up like crazy and that is about it…
As far as i can tell i already installed the latest, April 2015, service pack upgrades but still no dice.
Any ideas or does this CPU not work with the DL 360 G6?
Thanks!
A blank screen does not necessarily indicate a broken video card, it could be anything in the pre boot sequence. The fact that you are not getting an CMSO beeps indicates that it is not even POSTing properly, so it could easily be CPU, RAM, Motherboard.
Unfortunately the only way to find out what is wrong is to swap out components and see what works.
So, after bringing a third system into the mix, and experiencing the same issue, we began to question the environment. I dug up a copy of the HP ProLiant Servers Troubleshooting Guide and found the POST problems flowchart shown below.
Carefully running through the steps in the chart, we realized that the one constant across all of the servers was a KVM switch attached to the data center crash cart. This was a consumer-class USB-enabled KVM. As per the highlighted node in the flowchart, Do you have known good KVM?, I could not answer conclusively.
So, we unplugged the servers from the KVM switch and ran an automated boot, sleep 300; reboot sequence in rc.local. The servers had no issues with this, regardless of the normal DIMM, low-voltage DIMMs, PSU wattage, etc.
This was all the result of a poor interaction with a USB KVM switch. By virtue that this was the console, it ensured we'd see the failure if we were looking for it. Self-fulfilling...
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The Intel X5690 CPU is not compatible in an HP ProLiant DL360 G6 server. The X5670 is the fastest 6-core CPU that will work in that model...
This is a heat/power constraint on the DL360 G6/G7 platform.
When my specifications called for X5680 or X5690 CPUs, I needed to use G6 or G7 DL380 2U servers to accommodate them.