Microsoft Project Olympus V2 C2030 Motherboard - Can we get it working? No display output!

A quick video of my Microsoft Project Olympus motherboard. This is the second version - C2030. I have gotten it to seemingly work however I can NOT get a video signal from it. Any help is much appreciated!

[Malice]

There's a github with all the documents you access the bmc through network. i suspect you may have to tell it to boot with the psu error (amber light )

[davehu]

EX microsoft lab vendor here, those thing does not have VGA output, the video output gos to the PDU, (yes, the PUD has KVM build into it) also the only NIC port on the mother board is NOT for BMC. make sure you have the jumper setup correctly, I could not get you the doc since I jumped ship. try to use newer Nvidia VGA card, the power on to POST on the screen may take a few min.

[vladimir.smirnov]

Try to get the BMC working, as that way you mgith get access to the logs or serial console where you might get the error message.

[sean]

This board might not have a UEFI CSM for support of legacy BIOS VGA output. Try a newer GPU with support for UEFI GOP (some Nvidia Kepler/Nvidia Maxwell/AMD GCN4 or newer).

[DandoDeQueHablar]

The code 147 in the post code tells you that it is necessary to connect a storage unit, which has a previously installed operating system.

[Halon_]

Check if the EPS 8 pins and 4 pins are supposed to be connected
that GPU is probably too old to play nice with a lot of newer boards
check the BMC for video related settings
The board may require a bios battery

[aaronring]

BMC showing up on network? If BMC is going, maybe KVM is an option.

[AnonyDave]

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that since this is a highly specialised purposed motherboard (read: to only run in lights-out datacentres for cloud stuff), the uefi probably doesn't have any video support. It's probably only accessible via serial, either through a serial port on the board or via the BMC.

[jamespalmer]

on most oem server boards the gpus are picky. my r710 is like that

[glubrix]

Not all video cards are good, Try changing video card, it happened to me that some video card models are not seen by some motherboards. Try also the others pci slots. Sometimes the video card only works if placed in a particular slot and not in the others. See if that motherboard has the console in the serial port to configure the machine without using a video card
But I think you have already tried all these things, they are basic checks, and also the things they recommended below, if it's a server maybe it has a specific machine management module. I don't know that model

[lostyt]

Which CPU did you say you're using? I believe only specific firmwares support specific CPUs due to microcode space limitations. You can remove the firmware chips on these boards so they're really easy to flash.

[johnDingoFoxVelocity]

Okay. So I am going to be very nice here. But I definitely can tell you have no experience with server boards. So I am going to give you a helpful piece of advice that PC I Express slot that you plugged your g. PU into is not APC. I Express slot. The 3 black slots that are on that board are for 3 riser cards that connect to Sata. Those are not PC I Express. You are missing the 3 Sata. Riser cards, these cards are necessary to plug Sata hard drives into without them. You are basically running the machine with 0 output. Because the machine won't boot without the riser card.

Now.
If you're wondering how I know this, you will see a black 4 pin power connector on the motherboard. That is a mulex connector and it is designed to plug into another cable which you don't have. Which powers the 3 riser cards.

Usually on these boards, you network into them to get a video signal.That is another thing that you're also missing is a way to network into the machine.

I really hope that this helps you because you will never Get that.
Board running without the riser cards It's missing three riser cards

[patg]

maybe try 1 cpu with paired ram? different gpu (perhaps a server gpu?) Can always try different slots or ram too.

[johnDingoFoxVelocity]

Okay. So I am also going to be nice about another thing. It will not work with that graphics card. I noticed your graphics card port. And you completely don't see it. You will see next to the label PCIE Mezz What looks like a oval shape black connector with a bunch of pins that is your gpu connector It's using A GPU connector from a apple graphics card..

So you have no video out at all unless you find a pci graphics card, not A PCi Express card.

Your GPU plugs into the brown slot on the mother board for external GPU Which is pci only not pci Express

[tatas]

do you use a dvi or dp adapter to hdmi?

[thomaslindell]

Seriously you have it on a conductive bag wtf