dnapier248 wrote:
Thank you very much for the suggestions.
I have already changed the CMOS battery in case that was flat, sadly that made no difference. I think the drive issue maybe more fundamental as they illuminate red immediately (as soon as powered up). I tried backing few out drives and those slots remain red. I will try your other suggestion, place a new drive into slot one and see if I can load a fresh install. Do you happen to know if the NIC interface is 100bt/1G or just 1GB.
Kind regards
Daniel
Once the error is set it will remain red until it clears
If you pulled out all the pool drives prior to boot and boot still failed even with errors then most likely the boot drive is either bad, corrupted , full or overheated.
If the bottom bay drive was functional then it would complete the boot with errors due to the missing pool drive or possibly the bios is corrupted.
Hopefully when you replaced your battery you did not damage the backplane.
Also don't forget the updates will hose your console a couple of times while the connector is out of sync between the pc and server till it finishes updating.
For me the only model I have used is the ex490.