Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

The server works as a single CPU unit but I want it all to work.
There are two LEDs on the main board to show power on each
CPU. The LEDs for CPU two are not lit.

2009 Intel Xserve (latest). Dual quad core Intel Xeon, 12 gigs
RAM, 900 GB SAS HD.

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

First check there are physically 2 CPU.
Either on the board ans in the BIOS (and activated).

Lucifer a écrit le 04/03/2019 Ã* 09:26Â*:
The server works as a single CPU unit but I want it all to work.
There are two LEDs on the main board to show power on each
CPU. The LEDs for CPU two are not lit.

2009 Intel Xserve (latest). Dual quad core Intel Xeon, 12 gigs
RAM, 900 GB SAS HD.

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 12:09:19 +0100, Look165
wrote:


Lucifer a écrit le 04/03/2019 à 09:26*:
The server works as a single CPU unit but I want it all to work.
There are two LEDs on the main board to show power on each
CPU. The LEDs for CPU two are not lit.

First check there are physically 2 CPU.

There are, and two lots of RAM.

Either on the board ans in the BIOS (and activated).

No BIOS. It's an Apple.

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 4:32:19 PM UTC-5, Lucifer wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 12:09:19 +0100, Look165
wrote:


Lucifer a écrit le 04/03/2019 Ã* 09:26Â*:
The server works as a single CPU unit but I want it all to work.
There are two LEDs on the main board to show power on each
CPU. The LEDs for CPU two are not lit.

First check there are physically 2 CPU.

There are, and two lots of RAM.

Either on the board ans in the BIOS (and activated).

No BIOS. It's an Apple.


The next step is determining if both CPUs are fed from the same source, or if there are two separate buck converters on the board for each. You might be able to see two identical converter circuits in the same proximity to each CPU.

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

Lucifer wrote:

No BIOS. It's an Apple.

Was this an ebay special?

Make sure you put a fresh battery in (probably cr2032), there may be no bios
but it still has nvram for configuration settings, backed up by the battery.

A flakey battery (or dead) might screw things up quite a bit. On some Sun
servers, the machine won't even power up.

One other thought, you said something about 12GB ram, kind of an odd amount.

I think that machine is picky about the type and what slots are used. You
can use different sized chips but the pairs have to be matched.

On that machine the slots are arranged like this:

1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8

the ones in slots 1 and 2 have to be matched. (first pair)
the ones in slots 3 and 4 have to be matched. (second pair)
the ones in slots 5 and 6 have to be matched. (third pair)
the ones in slots 7 and 8 have to be matched. (forth pair)

To make life simple, if you know for a fact you have 4 identical simms, just
use them in 1-2-3-4 and leave 5-6-7-8 empty.

I'm not sure if the mixed sizes or placement will cause the led not to light
on the one cpu but this is just basic troubleshooting.

Odds are it's "something else" including a bad cpu but the battery and simm
placement is a good starting point.

-bruce

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 12:43:04 -0000 (UTC), wrote:

Lucifer wrote:

No BIOS. It's an Apple.

Was this an ebay special?

Make sure you put a fresh battery in (probably cr2032), there may be no bios
but it still has nvram for configuration settings, backed up by the battery.

A flakey battery (or dead) might screw things up quite a bit. On some Sun
servers, the machine won't even power up.

One other thought, you said something about 12GB ram, kind of an odd amount.

I think that machine is picky about the type and what slots are used. You
can use different sized chips but the pairs have to be matched.

On that machine the slots are arranged like this:

1 5 2 6 3 7 4 8

the ones in slots 1 and 2 have to be matched. (first pair)
the ones in slots 3 and 4 have to be matched. (second pair)
the ones in slots 5 and 6 have to be matched. (third pair)
the ones in slots 7 and 8 have to be matched. (forth pair)

To make life simple, if you know for a fact you have 4 identical simms, just
use them in 1-2-3-4 and leave 5-6-7-8 empty.

I'm not sure if the mixed sizes or placement will cause the led not to light
on the one cpu but this is just basic troubleshooting.

Odds are it's "something else" including a bad cpu but the battery and simm
placement is a good starting point.

I will check the battery and RAM placement. Thanks.

It has 6 x 2GB RAM cards. 3 for each CPU. Only 3 cards (6GB)
show in System Profiler.
I could have all 6 RAM cards for the one CPU but I'd really
like to have both CPUs working.

Apple Xserve 2009 dual quad core has no power on second CPU
 

Lucifer wrote:

I will check the battery and RAM placement. Thanks.

It has 6 x 2GB RAM cards. 3 for each CPU. Only 3 cards (6GB)
show in System Profiler.
I could have all 6 RAM cards for the one CPU but I'd really
like to have both CPUs working.

I've never seen one of those Xserves up close but have resurrected from the
dead a few Sun servers. On Suns, the memory is more of a pool where is
installed correctly, either cpu can grab as much ram as it needs, in other
words, it's not dedicated to each cpu.

But who knows with apple.

I don't know if you have this or ran across it...

https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1428?locale=en_US

but it seems to contain the hardware diagnostics for that thing, at least
the part of it called AXD EFI.

There are other versions, 3x104, 3x106 but one of them should work.

As the other guy (John?) mentioned, there could be a pair of simm looking
things that are called VRM's, usually one for the cpu, the other for the ram
bank, 4 all together (2cpu, 2ram). You can usually swap the cpu ones just to
see if the off-led follows to the other one. If so, you know what to look
for.

I can't find a diagram of that thing anywhere so only taking a guess there.

They are socketed like the simms and the only reason for that is again, on
the Suns, they are changed if the cpu is upgraded. I don't know if they go
bad, never had a bad one.

Good luck.

-bruce