I changed the backplane from a 1x6 to 1x4 to accommodate 1.6” drives. After doing so the BIOS seems to have trouble keeping its information straight. Every few times I restart, the BIOS loses the date, service tag, and the onboard RAID settings. I set the date and turn on board RAID back on and it boots up to Windows with no issues. When I restart again after making the changes, everything works well... until the next time.

Normally I would figure it’s the battery, but when I change back to the original 1x6 backplane, all is well.

I don’t want to configure this server for any critical apps with these problems still around.

Any thoughts?