Xserve early 2009 and Service Diagnostics

I've got an Xserve early 2009 (Xserve3,1) that has its fans constantly blowing at maximum speed.
I'd like to run ASD of AXD to locate the problem. Using Disk Utility I made boot disks (CD-ROM, USB, ...) containing ASD 3X106 and AXD 3X104. But the Xserve doesn't recognize neither of them as boot disks. It's impossible to boot from these disks.
Does anyone have the proper procedure to run ASD or AXD on an Xserve?
David

Make sure you are using 3X106 http://support.apple.com/kb/DL948 first.
I made this into a bootable image on my external hard drive. So all i have to do is plug the usb drive to the front of the xserve and boot to it.
Before you do any of this though I would try to reset the SMC. You can do that by shutting down the xserve and unpluging both power plugs for 1 min.
See if that makes a change first, If not go into server monitor and check your temps, maybe one of the sensors is bad and reporting that the machine is hot when its not.

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Overall, the Xserve that I'm concerned about has a light workload. It's being used as a file and web server. Most of the time CPU load is around 1% - 5%. The room temperature is at 18 degrees celsius.
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I have a Early 2009 Xserve running 10.8.4 server which is intermittantly crashing. What usually happens is the machine grinds to a halt and services stop working, access with ARD and SSH stop and even the GUI on the machine is unusable as the whole machine is running slow.
I noticed that last time is did this that the processor and ethernet lights on the front of the machine were all off even though the machine was clearly running.
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When I try to pair my Nokia cell phone (E65) with my new MacBook Pro 15", the bluetooth assistant hangs after the input of the pairing code. I tried another Nokia cell phone in addition (N70), but had the same issue.
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Your model iMac, Mac9,1, can run Yosemite which is a free upgrade. You'll have no memory problems with what you have. However, since you are currently running iPhoto 8.1.2, iPhoto 9.6 will require a purchase from the App Store.
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No OpenCL Device for the GPU on XServe (Early 2009)

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we want to utilize OpenCL on our Server. The GPU (NVidia GT 120) should be supported according to all specs I can find and one can google for benchmark results for Mac Pro's also equipped with the GT 120.
The software, OpenCL Framework, CUDA drivers, and our test programm also seem to work fine and have properly installed themselve on the server as well as on our MacBook Pro (for testing).
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I did go look at the NVIDA web page, and don't see something in particular to download to run some tests or to have a look at the code. (There were a pile of links over there, but nothing obvious to test to get to the error.
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app: http://www.macresearch.org/files/opencl/Episode3source.zip
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I know that thread. And there are more resources on the web about OpenCL running on GT 120 cards of the Mac Pro.
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