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The fans sping up like jet engines upon powering up the server. In about 10 seconds or so, they slow down to normal idle. The power switch button on the front is blinking green, and the LCD display on the front/blue LED at the rear, also blink. Just on and off, with no discernable pattern.

This document describes the significance of system indicator light color and messages that can appear on the front liquid crystal display (LCD) panel of a Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA), Web Security Appliance (WSA), or Security Management Appliance (SMA).

Prior to the X80 appliances, the 2 RU size chassis that were manufactured for the ESA, WSA, and SMA were built on Dell"s 2650-series and 2950-series chassis.

As a result, the messages that can appear in the front panel display are documented at Dell"s web site in the PowerEdge 2650 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide and PowerEdge 2950 Hardware Owner"s Manual.

If the system indicator light on your appliance blinks blue this is not a problem. This is only used for system identification. The idea behind system identification is that you might have several security appliances in a rack and they all look the same. If you want to find a particular appliance in a rack you press the identification button, which is the small button on the back labeled with the letter "i" in a circle. If you press the identification button, the system indicator in the front blinks blue and the identification LED in the back blinks blue. When you are finished, press the identification button one more time and the light stops blinking blue.

Behind the bezel of your appliance (except on C1x0 and S1x0 Series appliances) there is a small LCD panel that displays additional error information. Tilt the bezel downward (no tools required) and copy the error code that appears on the display. Then, contact Cisco Customer Support in order to resolve the issue.

In general, any error message that appears in the front panel display of an appliance is indicative of a serious hardware problem that requires immediate remediation. The only exception to this are the E0876/POWER PS or the E0880/INSUFFICIENT PS error messages. While these can indicate a defective power supply, they can also be caused by a power supply that is unplugged or has been pulled out of the system chassis. Before you swap a system with these error messages, you should verify that the power supplies are firmly seated and that both power cords are plugged into working outlets.

Now before you just haul out and get 2 $85 2670v1 like half the planet.  If you are installing video cards that require external power, you are limited to 95watt cpus, and you need 1100watt power supplies.  However they do make a poor mans 2670, a 2650.  Its only 2.0ghz before turbo (vs 2.6ghz for the 115 watt 2670) but other than that, its got the same amount of cores and features of the 2670, and i have scored them for $30 shipped on auction style on ebay.  SR0KQ is the latest.

Ok lets keep going.  You have your 2 2650s (you bough that dell heatsink for the 2nd cpu that cost as much as said cpu right?), you also bought a normal perc h310 and cross flashed it.

With 2 xeon 2650v1"s, 4 16 gig 1.35v dimms, a IT flashed per h310, and six 7200rpm HGST nas drives, my system idles at 84 watts from the wall, and 120-130 watts with all the drives spun up.