But, is everything on like HDDs, fans? In my case everything is on it's just unresponsive. This suggests what I just said above to be true. Do you have to hold the power button to turn it off and then press it again? Sorry for so many questions, I just want to see whether the problem is exactly the same like mine.
Everything just goes off like Its just shutdown then once powered up it's fine just the CPU fans come back on louder as there working faster
Oh, I'm afraid my problem is different to yours, I have to try solve it myself when I get back home or send the server back to them... Why am I so unlucky?
You should open your chassis and check for something that might be shorting a connection somewhere. On one of our in-house built servers, someone installed hard drives too close to the motherboard and the screws were actually touching the motherboard and it caused it to randomly reboot...sometimes in an endless loop.
This is the joy of getting PC stuff second-hand. Since your systems seems to power up and run ok for a while, what I would suggest looking at heat-related issues. Perhaps the chipset heatsink is loose and it's locking up after the system is on for a while.
Exact raid drivers for unmodified bios Hi I have sucessfull installed the unmodified "BIOS218B" bios. Can someone confirm where I can get the raid drivers for w2k8 x64? Ideally the url and filename as there seem to be so many links floating around in this thread. Thanks loads!
Well, I got all of those drivers but none of them worked, I had to do some modifications to the new driver to make it work. I can post it to you as soon as I get home or if you need it immediately then I may make one you for you like I did for myself. Tqhoang: I will try the SATAtoIDE thing to see whether the Raid Driver is faulty, then I will see whether this might be an overheating problem. The thing is that it does not seem to overheat as the air from the cooler is quite cold. I have made so many plans to improve my network, I want it to work!!! :/
no rush I wont get to it until tommorow anyway, thanks. When you said "none of them worked" did they once installed during setup not even show a drive, or did they show a drive but have stability issues?
They showed no drives, I forced them to install. Luckily the inf file modification made them work as normal. It's because the Device ID of this card is not in the inf file. Maybe because drivers from SI website are supposed to work with PCI cards not on-board cards.
Ok. I am back home and of course I am testing the server now to see if it still hangs, I am using the SATAtoIDE converter. Hope youy had a good easter
I think it works okay at the moment, but I am unsure whether it's the thing that fixed it. I realised that the embeded raid controller causes my windows explorer to behave weirdly sometimes, the bar at the top(when the path is written) goes slowly from left to right and until that gets to the end, no icons of files are visible nor file details appear. Strange...
I have one of these Rackable 2u Server 2x Amd Opteron 250 . I have flashed the bios to 2.18b RF4. I am trying to load VMware Server 3.5 on this server. Just after the first line of the install shows up the screen goes dark with a few odd numbers and symbols. Any idea what could be the problem? I thought this box was supposed to be able to run VMware 3.5. Thanks, Rmalko
I have another problem with motherboard HDAMA rev. G. It works perfect with 3Gb memory(with installed windows server 2003 x86). As soon as I add still 1Gb RAM, I get the blue screen at os loading. I use DIMM's 1Gb DDR ECC and memory good for sure, bios v. 2.18b. I tried to use different DIMM's slots, but unsuccessfully. By the way, my motherboard worked unstable until I haven't put the additional fan on chipset radiator (it was very hot).
You should run memtest86+ from a bootable CD and test the 4GB configuration. Perhaps it has to do with the memory timings in the BIOS...
There was no errors when i tested 4G memory configuration. But it doesn't matter, 3 Gb memory has enough for x86 server.
Here's my theory on that. You are attempting to boot from an IDE CD/DVD drive, you can not use the raid configurator to build a raid. I believe that there is some difference between Rev G and Rev I, 218b RF4 is built on the (from my reading and understanding) the HDAMAG217 ROM and not the HDAMAI112 ROM file, which if you download and try to install the HDAMAG217 file to your machine, it "should" fail. Meaning that your 'part type' is not compatible with the preprogrammed part type in the code. (somewhere) Now my theory, is, that HDAMAI came after the HDAMAG, as on initial boot before you flashed, did you happen to look at the version number. Mine was "v1.12", and Rhapsody Motherboard. I'm waiting on response to determine if I will destroy my SiI3114 chip by trying to go back to the v1.12 BIOS. I can still boot to usb stick, but that's it, floppy doesn't work, IDE doesn't work... and thus my previous version of VMWare 4.0 doesn't boot either. (I think you and I might have the same board.) Also, mine is a 64 bit dual proc, so you should be able to use the ESXi 4.0 which is native 64bits. Cheers Flash Part :: SST49LF040B Device ID :: 50 Mfr. ID :: bf