SCSI HDD causing Blue Screen or not booting at all

[stevebanks]

Hi,

This is really urgent as we cannot use our server with all our data on at the moment.

We have a Dell PowerEdge 1600sc and yesterday afternoon some new RAM arrived for it, so i went to install it, only one of the chips was faulty. So, i took it back out and plugged the SCSI hdd cable's back in (had to take them out to get to the ram). Right, now, when i went to turn the server back on, the LSI config wouldn't recognise one of the drives - i have been fiddling with the jumpers for hours, and the LSI config utility but nothing is working.

I can get the LSI to see both drives, in fact, if i set the first drive to ID 0 and put the "narrow" jumper on, and set "disconnect" in LSI to off, Win2003 server boots, but, it gives a blue screen during start up.

This is the only way i've been able to get anything, otherwise it just hangs at the LSi drive check at the beginning.

Please please please can someone help me asap?!!?!?!

Thank you

 

[technome]

Long shot...
Pull the Lsi out, reverse any changes you made to the drives or adapter, clear the motherboard bios by the berg pin or removing the battery, power on, turn off, reinstall the LSI. If you get past the Lsi bios screen at this point, and still get a blue screen, do a OS "repair" install.

I assume you reversed the ram upgrade, perhaps the new ram is creating problems.



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[stevebanks]

Are you saying the LSI is a card? Because the Server we have, the SCSI port is on-board. Do you know what the "disconnect" option does, and why it would let me get past the LSI bios with the disconnect set to off, but not when set to on? I'm sure it was set to on before. The new RAM is not installed.

I'll see if i can do an OS repair install and see what i get.

thanks