PROBLEM #1
Hello everyone! Recently I bought my first server which was a HP DL380 G5 that was going to be used as a Domain Server/Home server/FTP/etc for my house.
I bought it around 7/20/14, and I didn't even use it much for the first 3 weeks, when I got around to installing AD/Domain/FTP/ETC I usually turned it on only once a day, then about a month ago I started running it 24/7 as it is built to do.
About three weeks ago I woke up and saw the server was off and the Internal Health LED and both PPM LEDs were red/amber.
So I tried troubleshooting it for about 3 days, until I gave up and decided to order 2 brand new PPM modules for the server.
They came in the mail last week and I replaced the (presumabely faulty) Modules, and I booted it up and it worked made it even worse, instead of just turning off after an hour it now will shut off within 10 minutes and show the same error, except that it only shows one PPM slot being bad instead of two.
I tried inspecting the slots to see if there were any problems and there weren't, I checked the Powersupply backplane, which seems to be okay, checked my single power supply, again seems to be working fine, LED on the back of the powersupply is showing up so that's good.
Do I need to order a new backplane and 1000Watt powersupply, will it definitely fix it? I don't want to have to waste any more money and find out it is something else.
Any suggestions?
PROBLEM #2
HP DL380 G5 will not accept more than 12GB of RAM
NOTE: This problem happened before the PPM failure, I am mainly just curious about this.
When I try to put the kit in, and start the DL380, it will not POST and makes a really annoying high pitched noise, if you are asking, is the DIMMS bad? No. I have tried over 4 different types and they wont work.
You may ask, are the slots bad? No.
I've tested all the slots and they work.
If I use slots 1,2,3,4,5,7 of theslots it will boot.
If I only use 4 of the slots in any order, it will boot fine.
This is EXTREMELY infuriating because it says on the HP website it can support up to 64GB of memory.
I have dual Xeons in this computer, and I also found this http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware...77015.html
Apparently it wont work with more than 8GB of memory installed, but mine will work with 12GB if I use it in slots 1,2,3,4,5,7