Hi server guru's,
I have a SR2500ALLX chassis with a S5000pal board that will not boot to bios.
This is a retired server I was resurrecting for additional storage and running a virus solution.
I had just put in 5 new drives, installed new memory and successfully updated the bios to the latest release.
For a few weeks I was playing with different OS's (2012 essentials, W10 preliminary release etc) Setting up various raid configs, etc. I Had no issues at all.
In fact I was quite pleased to find the drivers not to be an issue.
It was running great.
I went to install W7 64bit everything was fine until the Os went into it's first re-boot after install, then it hung.
I am stuck (hung) at this screen:
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Raid Controller Bios version MT30 (build Jan 05 20007)
HA-0 (Bus 4 Dev 14)
Intel raid controller SROMBSAS18E
FW package 5.1.1 -0038
1 logical drive found on the host adapter
1 logical drives handled by bios
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my diagnostic lights are: green-red-green-red
I tried a cmos reset. no help.
I tried disconnecting various components with no luck.
I'm afraid the mother board is toast. But I'm up for any suggestions.
Thanks
Specs:
SR2500 chassis with S5000PAL
SROMBSAS18E Raid controller
5 SAS drives. NEW
16GB memory NEW
2 xeon e5410
I have some numbers on the midplane and back plane if needed.