Thank you for the service tag. You are correct, support for the Intel Xeon Processor E7-4800/8800 v4 Product Family Processors was not added until version 2.0.1. An older processor will need to be used to update the BIOS at least to version 2.0.1 which should allow the server to boot. Thanks,    
--- This is my very first Server project. I am grateful for the chance to learn. I hope that my first post here may be useful to others, but it probably contains more questions than answers: --- I found a great deal online for a used barebones R930 kit. I think it may have included much more than most barebones kits usually do.The kit was heavily discounted, because it had a damaged and unreadable LCD screen.I fixed the broken LCD with an inexpensive replacement part designed for R920 and that has worked fine.Vendor stated that it is only necessary to add CPU and Memory. --- Barebones kit included: R930 chassis and motherboard pre-installed H730P RAID Controller with cabling pre-installed 16+8 HDD backplane with two daughter cards pre-installed Network Card pre-installed 4x 1100 Watt Power Supplies with power cords 8 x memory risers DVD-ROM --- I purchased and installed used 8 x SNPCPC7GC/32G 32GB DDR4 2400MHz ECC RDIMM Memory (supported basis Dell Parts upgrade list for R930) I also purchased and installed used quad INTEL XEON E7-8890V4 ES PROCESSOR E7-8890 V4 60M Cache 24-core 2.20 GHz (supported basis Dell Parts upgrade list for R930) I purchased and installed used left-side cabling and right-side cabling for 8x PCIe NVM backplane I purchased and installed only 1 used Samsung XS1715 1.6TB 2.5" NVMe SSD DELL MZ-WEI1T60 --- On startup, I have observed that Dell R930 hangs at "Initializing Intel QuickPath Interconnect". iDRAC reports that BIOS 1.1.5 is preinstalled. --- I hope that someone will correct me if I am wrong, but I will begin troubleshooting with the assumption that the existing BIOS 1.1.5 cannot support processors above Xeon E7 v3. My assumption is based on a common sense interpretation of release notes for BIOS v2.0.1, which announce new support for Xeon E7 v4 if I am not mistaken. If my assumption is correct, then it seems that I should upgrade the BIOS to version 2.0.1 in order to support the quad Xeon E7 8890 v4 processors which are currently installed on the R930 motherboard. Based on my reading of how to upgrade a BIOS, it seems that a system must be able to boot in order to upgrade a BIOS. Is that really true? It would be problematic in my case, because I would need to purchase unwanted Xeon v3 processors just to boot the system, simply to upgrade the BIOS, and then reinstall the desired Xeon v4 processors. --- Any suggestions from the Community would be welcome. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration. ---
Used Barebones Dell R930 hangs at "Initializing Intel QuickPath Interconnect"