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February 21st, 2008 21:00
Cannot get Dell PowEdge 1600SC to boot
My PowerEdge 1600SC will not boot. When I turn it on it goes through the BIOS check, goes through the on-board SCSI controller ID discovery to find my two identicle Seagate 3184583LW U360 hard drives, and then just hangs.
I have upgraded the BIOS, disabled the onboard controller and added an Adaptec PCI SCSI controller, swapped out the two HDs for a single drive, used the Adaptec Disc Utilities to scan and verify each HD, and nothing changes what happens.
When I press F10 to use the Utility Mode, it tells me that NTLDR is missing and to reboot. So I burned a NTLDR boot disc. All 10 boot options fail. The odd number boot options tell me that \system32\hal.dll is missing and to reinstall, and the even number boot options tell me that it cannot read from the disc.
It seems like it's just a MBR problem but why would it be having the exact same result no matter which HD I swap in?
This is baffling me. I don't want to have to put in new HDs and reinstall the OS just to have some more severe hardware failure.
I have upgraded the BIOS, disabled the onboard controller and added an Adaptec PCI SCSI controller, swapped out the two HDs for a single drive, used the Adaptec Disc Utilities to scan and verify each HD, and nothing changes what happens.
When I press F10 to use the Utility Mode, it tells me that NTLDR is missing and to reboot. So I burned a NTLDR boot disc. All 10 boot options fail. The odd number boot options tell me that \system32\hal.dll is missing and to reinstall, and the even number boot options tell me that it cannot read from the disc.
It seems like it's just a MBR problem but why would it be having the exact same result no matter which HD I swap in?
This is baffling me. I don't want to have to put in new HDs and reinstall the OS just to have some more severe hardware failure.
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snapohead
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February 24th, 2008 23:00
I dare say that if your using the onboard SCSI controller, as apposed to a RAID controller, the disks probably aren't mirrored. Meaning that there is only one system disk, which i suspect is corrupt.
Alan2938
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February 25th, 2008 12:00