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March 30th, 2017 20:00
No F11 option upon boot up
Poweredge 1600sc.
Does not recognize a boot device. I swapped with another CD-ROM and now I see it in the BIOS, but it wont boot from it. It shows as a secondary drive. When booting up there is no F11 option in the upper right. I repeatedly press F11 as it boots and I still get no boot sequence.
I wanna run Win 7 as a media server. I have the SCSI drivers on another CD. I already setup a RAID 5. 6 360gb drives.
Thoughts?
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theflash1932
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March 31st, 2017 10:00
Windows 7 is DVD only, so if you are using a CD-ROM (most common and default option for an old 1600SC), then it won't work. I don't believe the 1600SC can even boot to USB, so you'll either need a DVD-ROM drive or set up a network boot/location to install from.
Rockridge007
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April 2nd, 2017 19:00
Thanks for the reply.
I thought the same so I stuck a DVD Rom drive in and same issue. No f11 upon boot up to modify the boot sequence. BIOS indicates it is there. Even if I didn't have a DVD Rom shouldn't I still be given a boot sequence option for the HDD and the floppy?
theflash1932
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April 2nd, 2017 21:00
There is not always an F11 prompt. If not, then you just need to make sure the boot sequence in the BIOS has the CD/DVD drive FIRST, and that it has a checkmark by it to enable it as a boot device.