From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 14 16:50:16 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B016CE79E8B for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from sonic303-20.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (sonic303-20.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com [77.238.178.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DF2583186 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) X-YMail-OSG: 44U_CTwVM1k_xQbTU.IRSSNbRfN9ozrwn2pSFIU5iR3GKZmaegJnn.zUDuz6Tra XtPfxsMRXAvpqH_Q_La2jzNBc97GLhHoQz8CE9WyM8BSGsACCLvy0Ts6lV8E5.MiV3OUEkPkmz9h SGE0q.4f4m2DQJXHhdNPXvOpsRqs_kvjRcscvtrBHW8ATsN3rNcm89I079FQtXdo_xQCTNwBGvsJ SKPRCc4vCo0j.8MJE68ozlef4WgQ66SD28qOYWxGMAXMR1jYRCJ5s3Q4AzyahZifymJ8kSWkZL5W _uLJulZxQetvzTOZHnUXOMfmuV8w1FdxKeN7dO79wQeD4FfLZwKD1U2picyhSj98CI.seDwB7ZOP GYEaKweIGwp.IV5C3xUcTBsu8dR7HVUL8ZvtfQtDIhn9iKHnQ5.xCApks5IfyfPN9JDAUk71LWe8 KqhNjwmS8z_cN4tfUZ5KAbm3BB9O0gZzDMxbRme.mqfcLORKfmS0oPuFublHaOefQyj8a.crtTjV hFUHbdUWlCP6MmFRIETUU.MrLNxh2Nm972WXX Received: from sonic.gate.mail.ne1.yahoo.com by sonic303.consmr.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with HTTP; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:08 +0000 Received: from smtp169.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (EHLO archlinux.localdomain) ([46.228.39.36]) by smtp416.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (JAMES SMTP Server ) with ESMTPA ID 8bddfd28112c51655c0776d775912669; Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:50:06 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Server doesn't boot when 3 PCIe slots are populated Message-ID: <20180114175006.69ff2ee1@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <60145.108.68.169.115.1515941410.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <061ccfb3-ee6a-71a7-3926-372bb17b3171@kicp.uchicago.edu> <4cd39c52-9bf0-ef44-8335-9b4cf6eb6a6b@gjunka.com> <60145.108.68.169.115.1515941410.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0git3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-arch-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:50:16 -0000 On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 08:50:10 -0600 (CST), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >Incidentally, PS powering successfully different machine not >necessarily is also sufficient to power this one. SMPSs are a PITA, as soon as I gain world domination the first thing I'll do, is to forbid SMPSs and I'll enforce to burn all circuit diagrams and literature about SMPSs. However, I noticed that replacing the CMOS battery and/or shorting the CMOS clearing pins on mobos much too often does magic.