hp dl140 g3 how to repair after failed bios update

During updating bios to the new version (1.18) i got an error that computer can’t read rom file. Then after reboot server did not start. Actually it starts but does not show anything, screen is blank, no system beeps or led signals. The question is, how can i recover it? I can’t find any information … Read more

Consumer level motherboards that play nicely with large numbers of drives [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 8 years ago. Improve this question I currently have a system with 25 hard drives – 24 for data and one for OS. This machine is built on a … Read more

Dell poweredge 2950 and 1950 will not see hard drive [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 6 years ago. Improve this question I am trying to put in a sata drive into my dell poweredge 1950 generation 2 and my dell poweredge 2950 generation 3. … Read more

Windows not picking up hard drive, but BIOS does

I have a Windows Server 2003 box, with 2 identical hard drives installed (not in a RAID array). For some reason, Windows just stopped recognising the second hard drive. It doesn’t appear in My Computer or Windows Disk Management. However, when booting the server up, if I go into my BIOS settings, the BIOS does … Read more

HP ProLiant DL365 G5, USB and PS/2 Do not work during Boot

Good evening all, The situation up until the REAL point of failure; Dual Opteron 2300 Quad-Core (I’m not positive but I think theyre running at 2.6Ghz) 24Gb RAM (2Rx4 PC2-5300P-555) (lost 8Gb to a bad stick on Friday) RAID: HP Smart Array P400i/256MB with BBWC (RAID 0/1/1+0/5) Failure; I am attempting to enter setup (F2 … Read more

Execute PCI option rom, Network Controller on B:06/D:00/F:00 (motherboard Z10PE-D8-WS ACPI BIOS Revision 3101)

I have a motherboard Z10PE-D8-WS ACPI BIOS Revision 3101 which stuck at this screen I have not added any news devices, just a night before shutdown the system using power button instead of “sudo shutdown -h now” from my Linux console. Right now it stays in this state forever. I can’t get it BIOS settings … Read more

Secure contents of a hard drive so it can’t be accessed on another computer [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 2 years ago. Improve this question My company is developing a device that is basically a Linux box with some attached hardware and proprietary software that is installed on … Read more

K8NDRE motherboard in server fails to complete BIOS load with error 0078

K8NDRE motherboard with 4 sata drives, was running fine. Drives had raid-0 and raid-1 partitions, using mdadm. The onboard raid is disabled. Upon reformatting the drives, setting a new partition structure and new raid partitions, the bios fails to finish loading, with 0078 in the bottom right corner. Tried using completely new set of drives, … Read more

I can’t connect to internet via lan cable because 2032 battery died and my bios bios info is now empty [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question I have a compaq CQ61-112SL from about 5 years now… the main battery is almost dead, doesn’t keep more then 10 minutes. anyway … Read more