Dell R510 Server not booting
Since yesterday I am having a strange issue with my office server. I am not able to boot server os 2008 in my Dell R510 neither I am able to boot any cd/dvd to repair. It is booting but only until the cursor appears and than a blue screen for two seconds and restart itself again.
The drives are configured as RAID 5 and currently looking to backup data from it. Is there any way at least I can take out my data as neither i am able to boot any cd/dvd nor any usb bootable option as per old BIOS version.
The drives are configured as RAID 5 and currently looking to backup data from it. Is there any way at least I can take out my data as neither i am able to boot any cd/dvd nor any usb bootable option as per old BIOS version.
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the blue screen after the cursor appears only for a second so it is again so hard to even note down the error.
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look if this thread helps you : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/f61ce6da-0e06-4c7f-a42e-b552fb5bac9f/
Shoot the video with phone cam and then you will be able to read the BSOD screen message.
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for booting from CD - is the cd drive set as first device in the bios?
also -it can be bad - test with another drive, or CD
normal these faults are caused by :
-bad cd media, drive, or cable ->replace them or swap to test
-can also be bad ram
also -it can be bad - test with another drive, or CD
normal these faults are caused by :
-bad cd media, drive, or cable ->replace them or swap to test
-can also be bad ram
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I am really thankful to all the experts who really did give their best for helping me out with this trouble but unfortunately it totally depends on the management mood sometimes. They asked me to go for a new server restoring the latest backup and don't want to invest more on repair because recovering is costing us more than a latest affordable server in market. I am splitting points for this question and thanks once again to everyone here.
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Thank you, had really a good experience and will keep myself always ready for any disaster in future.
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