I purchased a used Dell M820 blade with 4x E5-4610, 48x 8GB DDR3 RDIMMs (1.5V), a 10GB mezz card, and a H710P controller. I loaded everything up into the blade, put it in the chassis, and it refuses to POST. The orange light flashes, and the CMC just shows "iDRAC" not ready without any other information in the logs. The blade does not have the management riser, but I was told that it was not required? The moment the blade is placed in the chassis the orange light comes on. The chassis is running CMC FW 5.12. I've ensured that the chassis is set to max performance power. The chassis is running v1.0 midplane, would that be an issue (I don't need 10GB in Fab A)?
Here's my troubleshooting steps:
1) Tried power cycling the entire enclosure without any blade seated.
2) I've tried removing individual components (H710P, reducing to minimum required amount of memory, 2 CPUs, no mezzanine card)
3) I have three of these blades so I've tried swapping around boards/CPUs to make sure nothing was "dead".
Any other suggestions?