Xserve POST troubles

I have an xserve 3Ghz Intel 2007.
At power on the system startup up and then freezes and fans race. After pulling off the cover I noticed some of the POST LEDs, located on the rear of the main logic board, are RED. DS1 and DS4 light are RED and DS2, DS3 are Green. Any tell me what's up?

There are red LEDs on the motherboard that are lit when the server is running normally, so don't necessarily let that concern you. Off hand I can't remember what they relate to, but red doesn't necessarily indicate a problem.
In my experience, most POST problems track back to DIMMs, so I'd try removing a pair of DIMMs at a time to see if you can get past POST.
If that doesn't work, use the XServe Hardware Diagnostics disk that came with the server to run a hardware diagnostic on the server.

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