On 02/29/2016 07:59 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
I'll keep playing with it. I've been through the BIOS (there are about 50 settings for RAM/ECC alone, most have 'Auto' setting). I'll double-check there as well. The box was apparently working fine before it came to me (I don't know how long ago the 'working fine' was through)
Well, it was 2 things, so in case there are others that run into this. 1) 2nd set of 20 sticks of RAM was just junk. Same HP part no., but Puerto Rico made, the machine will not boot on this RAM. Original 8 sticks work fine. 2) I am an idiot. The Advanced -> Boot -> OS Type settings on this server are the reverse of a desktop BIOS. Generally, the OS Type setting is [Windows | Other], I left the setting as "Other". However a closer inspection of the setting is [Other | Linux], flipping to "Linux" solved the issue here. The "Other" is for a hypervisor, such as vmware exsi. All 16 cores found fine. Thanks for the help. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.