Dell PowerEdge 1600SC Front Power Button?

[Enforcer]

Hey everybody,

I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this, but it looks like a long shot. I just got a Dell PE1600SC motherboard for free(p/n: T3006) and I don't have the propietery power button connector from the Dell case. I was hoping there'd be a way around that power button connection? Is there a spec sheet as to where the specific connectors go?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Rob_F]

Hey everybody,

I was hoping someone would be able to help me with this, but it looks like a long shot. I just got a Dell PE1600SC motherboard for free(p/n: T3006) and I don't have the propietery power button connector from the Dell case. I was hoping there'd be a way around that power button connection? Is there a spec sheet as to where the specific connectors go?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Good question, if it's a proprietary connector you'll have to either find the pin-outs or borrow a case to figure out where the power lead goes. I'd have no clue (I don't buy Dell if I can avoid it), but the one Dell machine I do have (Dell Precision) has this for a power connector:

http://neonhost.dyndns.org/~rob/powerconn.jpg

Same thing? I should be able to get you the two pins if it is(unless it goes into a PCB and has some funky electronics or something of that nature.)

[Enforcer]

Good question, if it's a proprietary connector you'll have to either find the pin-outs or borrow a case to figure out where the power lead goes. I'd have no clue (I don't buy Dell if I can avoid it), but the one Dell machine I do have (Dell Precision) has this for a power connector:

http://neonhost.dyndns.org/~rob/powerconn.jpg

Same thing? I should be able to get you the two pins if it is(unless it goes into a PCB and has some funky electronics or something of that nature.)

That's actually exactly what it looks like. Here's what I managed to do: short the pins. However, it just starts up for like a half second and then shuts off right away. :(

[Lusty_Muffins]

That's actually exactly what it looks like. Here's what I managed to do: short the pins. However, it just starts up for like a half second and then shuts off right away. :(

Make sure that cpu heatsink is really tightened on there! First time I built a PC this happened to me. I didn't realise just how tight those heatsinks really go on there.

[Rob_F]

That's actually exactly what it looks like. Here's what I managed to do: short the pins. However, it just starts up for like a half second and then shuts off right away. :(

I once blew up a Slot A motherboard doing that =/

Here's a tip: don't short the positive power pin to the power LED ground http://neonhost.dyndns.org/~rob/meh.png

If you found the power pin just by randomly shorting the pins, you might've just done that. Same thing happened to the Slot A board I toasted. It boots up and just hangs before the POST screen comes up.

[Enforcer]

I don't think I fried anything, the heatsinks are on pretty tight. It's not even on long enough until to fry anything. Well, now, instead of shorting the pins it just turns on when the power supply is plugged in. ????

[Rob_F]

Most of the Dells I've worked with turn on when the power supply is connected, but turn off like half of a second later. After that they should run normally.

In your case, I'd suspect a loose power connection somewhere. Do you know where this board came from, namely if it was from a working machine or not?

Also just running through the "dumb questions" list, are you using ECC ram in it? Off-the-shelf RAM generally doesn't work on server motherboards, if you just chucked in some you had laying around.

[Enforcer]

The RAM is ECC registered buffered etc etc
The board's only problem is that the onboard NIC isn't working which is fine because I have my own card anyway. The power is definitely fine.

Any more suggestions :)