Dell Poweredge sc1425 Mainboard Type

[Mollux]

Hey it's my first time posting so hope this is in the right place, i recently bought a Dell Poweredge SC1425 and it does what i want it to but the thing sounds like and jet taking off.

I have looked around and can't find what form factor the is for the mainboard, i think its E-ATX if so i can get it in a case with some less noisy fans rather than the rack mount case its in.

My options are use the board if it will fit in another case or buy a new board for the processors, I suppose I'm just looking for advice and if they is a way to tell the motherboard type ? "or if someone already knows ^_^ "

Thanks for reading

 

[leejc73]

All of the Poweredge range are custom in house designs mate. You'll have zero to nil luck fitting them into any other case than the one it's in.
Aside from the thing actually not fitting into any other "off the shelf" chassis you'll run into a world of pain getting the thing to start up out of the case as it's looking for all manner of signal assertions before it even switches on (BMC)

For the money you would need to throw at it to get it in a case and quiet I wouldn't waste your time or effort trying I would go and buy a HP Workstation probably around the XW6200 range and sell your SC1425 on.

Sorry it's not better news but Dell's server range isn't really built for repackaging. They didn't sort the horrendous fan noise out until the 10th generation servers, I had 1950/2950's with all ram slots filled and they sounded like jets, I've got a 610 and a 710 sitting here running almost silent.

If you look around one thing you might be able to do if you're brave enough is obtain or create a custom bios/bmc firmware configuration which calms your fans down a bit, I've seen it done with varying levels of success on the 1950's but haven't needed to do any research on the 1400's

Sorry it's not better news.

Cheers
Lee

 

[JMMP]

This type of servers are made for 24/7 usage in racks that may have +/- 38U´s in a cold room! Imagine 38 servers like that working, at the same time, the heat that can generate! Because of the compact form, their is not many space for heat disipation that´s why the fans have to work always at high rev´s!
I recomend that you buy something like a 7v fan adapter or making yourself one, using this scheme!Captura.jpg
I imagine that the fans are installed in slots with contact conections so you have to take off the adapter that makes the connection and make the wires longer and connect the fans to the PSu using the scheme!

I hope i could explain myself! Sorry for my english!!

 

[Mollux]

Thank's Lee and JMMP,

I have found a motherboard that takes Socket 604 Xeon, i was wondering if that would take the CPUs and the ram from the poweredge? not sure if dell does anything sneaky like locking the cpus.

The board is : http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-XW8200...aptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item3a755392a9

Hope its ok to post links here its says its an E-ATX so that should fit in the case i have for it or do the HP boards also have things that wont allow you to place them in normal cases ?

sorry for all the questions and for now i will try the 7v fan adapter i think i got one with the corsair fans i bought,

Thanks again

 

[Mollux]

"i tryed posting this once so sorry if this double posts"

Thanks Lee and JMMP,

I found a motherboard on eBay "HP XW8200 Workstation Motherboard" i was wondering if this board will take my cpus from the poweredge, i think they are socket 604 and dell dont lock the processors in or anything they are sneak like that.

The other thing was will a HP XW8200 board work in a normal case from what i have read online its a EATX so it should fit ok but im not sure there is anything like what you mentioned before that would stop it booting up if its not in the right case, as for now il just try the 7v adapter on the fans .

Thanks again

 

[leejc73]

No disprespect JMMP but you need to know what you're talking about before making suggestions for 7volt mods. Fans on these devices don't run molex connectors they run proprietary 6 pins if you put the fan on 7 volts the BMC will detect the fans as failed and either shutdown or alarm like crazy. (They do a full volt range test on power up 0-12 to check fan health)

No Dell don't do anything sneaky to CPU's or RAM they are entirely interchangeable.

You could use the HP XW8200 motherboard but if you've read enough about them you'll know there is some modding needs to be done to a standard ATX PSU to get it to start up.

There are loads of gotchas in trying to use the XW8200 out of an HP chassis. The CPU coolers (about 30 euros each) bolt directly to the motherboard tray. If i remember correctly with my 6200 if you don't get the ADDA exhaust fans it'll throw an alarm.

All the parts you need to get them running in an 8200 MB are available but I think if you costed it up you would be looking in the region of buying a system.

If you are serious about getting this going then I would be looking at TYAN or ASUS workstation boards. That will give you far more scope for doing what you need.

 

[dalewakelin]

You could try something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyuybwSaXjQ

 

[JMMP]

......No disprespect JMMP but you need to know what you're talking about before making suggestions for 7volt mods. Fans on these devices don't run molex connectors they run proprietary 6 pins if you put the fan on 7 volts the BMC will detect the fans as failed and either shutdown or alarm like crazy. (They do a full volt range test on power up 0-12 to check fan health).....

Hi lee,
i know what i´m talking about but i forgot that point!! thanks for the correction!