ML530: No video output, orange light on face

[eaglescouter]

My ML530 (new to me) produces no video output, and has an orange light on the Triangle indicator on the front of the machine.

Lights on the motherboard are all green except:
1. Amber light near CPU
2. Blue light near backplane

All pci cards are removed, tape drive is unplugged. 5 hard drives are lit up green and cd drive is constantly being accessed (even when empty).

Two sticks of ram have been used side by side in each of 4 possible paired configurations.

What am I doing wrong?

[eaglescouter]

Note: Box has the following:

1 Xeon P3 processor
5 18.2 GB hot swap hard drives (cage A)
1 cd drive
1 floppy drive
1 tape drive (disconnected)
RAM is 100mhz synch
Monitor is connected to integrated video output from the motherboard.

[James ~ Happy Dude]

Hello,
The Amber LED NEAR the CPU rings the Bell !

Try reseating the CPU,PPM.
How many CPU do u have in there ? If 2, try booting with one.

Also, Which Generation server is it ?
I cant recall out of my head, But THE PPM might be an INTEGRATED one. That case the system board goes.

Regards,
James.

[James ~ Happy Dude]

Duh ! Now I ur post Again.. u got one CPU !!!

[eaglescouter]

CPU has been removed and reinstalled. Problems remain.

[eaglescouter]

I reseated the cpu again, and unplugged the keyboard and mouse.

This time I got further since the fans ramped down two times and now the ram LED's are all illuminated orange.

One orange light on the front panel still (the triangle).

Should the ram LED's be orange?

[KarloChacon]

hi eaglescouter

ML530 G1 right?
the server ws working fine any change?


did you try putting the processor in other slot? to check if the amber LED is following processor?

so the fans are spinning?

regards

[eaglescouter]

The fans are spinning. Start fast, then ramp down.

I got the orange mobo cpu light to turn off.

This is a new unit to me, no history available.

All ram slots show orange led's, I think that means no compatible ram found. I have the same results with ecc and non ecc ram.

Still no signal to the monitor.

I flipped dip switch 1 to both positions, still no video. The change was made with the power disconnected. Switch is currently in the on position.

1. on
2. off
3. on
4. off
5. on
6. off