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sbs2003 hangs at start up

We are having trouble with an SBS2003.
It's a HP ML310 G4 with a HP 6-port SATA Raid Controller, 3 x 74GB sata disks in RAID5
(WORST SETUP you can imagine...) They should forbid SATA Raid.
There was a power failure and after that the server hangs while booting. The desktop appears and i can move the mouse pointer. It's not even applying computer settings, no logon screen, no  ctrl-alt-del...
Safe mode has the same result. I tried to boot with the OS cd and loaded the SATA driver using F6. This works but i don't get the option to go to the recovery console. I was able to boot using the [Admin Edit] and performed a disk checkup of my D partition. I couldn't scan the C partition using Hirens.

They don't have a UPS so there is no APC software on the server.

Any suggestions?

Grtz
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When you get a partial boot (you can see the mouse pointer).
Can you ping the server from another machine?
Have you tried remote desktop to access it?

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ping works
RDP doesn't
Can you remote manage it (Computer management)?  

On a PC (XP is OK), right click My Computer -> Manage
Then Action menu -> Connect to another computer

If you can connect, then you can see the event logs and check services.  That may help some.
I'm now checking the disks using the array configuration utility. This takes some time.
After that I will try your suggestion and post back here.
thx
thx, my bad.
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Checkdisk resolved the problem. I had to run it from a windows PE because i was unable to use the recovery console.