Hello members,
we bought 2 DL180 G6 machines which have LFF drive cages. The machines work fine as they are.
We also bought 2 pieces of 25 SFF cages (link with type: http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-530946-001-DL180-G6-HD-Cage-w-516809-001-Board-/390640934665? ) because we want to use the small format disks.
The new servers worked great when we took them out of the box. However, after we replaced the cages the server will not power on. Completely dead. We put the previous cages back and the servers boot.
We tried 2 different cages and 2 different DL180 G6 servers, both with the same result. It seems unlikely that we got 2 bad cages (although that's a possibility). We're more concerned that we've missed something that needs to be done to power on the server with the SFF cages.
We considered the problem was the power supply (the DL180s shipped with a 460W power supply) so we upgraded to the optional 750W power supply - no change. We know that the mother board is getting power because there is a blinking green light (we can't see what it means, but that may tell us something - we'd have to remove part of the chassis to see what the blinking light is labeled).
Could you please advise us how to proceed?
Thanks in advance