When booting SBS 2003

[brodie1227]

I have experienced this with a few of our client offices and was wondering if anyone knew how to fix this.

Whenever I restart the server it does not boot right into windows but prompts you to hit F1 to continue or F2 for setup. Once hitting F1 it boots into windows fine. This is an issue especially having to reboot remotely and no one on site to press the F1 key. Thanks for any help on this.

 

[BridgeRE]

There is no message? Just, "Hit F1 to Continue"? What does the POST display right before the F1 message?

 

[brodie1227]

Displays my logical drive

 

[BridgeRE]

I would refer to the manufacture BIOS codes. What kind of hardware? It could be something as small as replacing the BIOS battery

 

[58sniper]

Yep - that's a hardware issue there. SBS doesn't do that.

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[brodie1227]

Thanks Sniper and bridge re. I am actually going to call dell as they both are poweredge servers, and will post the resolution.

 

[Nemhain]

You might keep an eye on the POST data as it's coming up. We've got a newer HP G4 we were setting up that did that. Turned out that we didn't have one of the redundant power supplies plugged in and the SCSI startups were shoving the message off the screen.