homelab.

The original post: /r/homelab by /u/unidentified_sp on 2024-12-26 15:55:41.

So today I woke up to my server completely dead. IPMI still worked but simply said that the host was down. No error logs, nothing! Went to the server and found its fans spinning normally, power button LED lit and NICs also apparently up. Everything was down though; TrueNAS Scale, all VMs… yay.

After troubleshooting (checking / reseating all other components), the conclusion is that the motherboard that is only one year and a few month old, has crapped out. I can’t even access the BIOS. The POST code stays at 00 and the power management options in the IPMI interface + the power button do nothing…

At this time, I started Googling... I use an AsRock Rack B650D4U motherboard and apparently there’s a bad batch of these that die exactly with these symptoms. Great! Luckily it’s still under warrantly, so I hope there will be a quick swap to a newer hardware revision that doesn’t suffer this issue.

Anyway, happy Christmas everybody!

Some more reading material:

https://forum.level1techs.com/t/asrock-b650d4u-code-00-server-motherboard-failure/216110/21

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/asrock-rack-b650d4u-microatx-for-ryzen-7000-processors.38217/page-7

https://www.reddit.com/r/ASRock/comments/1gmm8vp/asrock_rack_b650d4u_died_again