Hardware question...

[Mike]

This morning a WIn2k server that I have wouldn't boot up.
I am using a Promise RAID card & have two drives mirored.
What showed on the screen was a bunch of gibberish - lots of flickering
characters, etc, but I could make out the message (from the raid card) that
one of the drives had become unstable, that system could boot but wouldn't
be fault tolerant.
I hit the key to let it boot & as windows splash screen came up, display was
very whacked out, so I wasn't even going to be able to see message to log
on, etc., so I shut down & replaced the VGA card.
Now, it wouldn't boot at all & I get a message on the monitor to check video
display.
I have treied other VGA cards, as well as a PCI video card & nothing.
I pulled all the ram & tried to boot & got a sreies of beeps, probably due
to the ram being gone, which gives me hope that the mobo might still be good
& at this time am just wanting to get it booted up to check some accounts,
etc.
Any reason why I'm getting no display & what I can do to get it up & running
for a short while?

 

[Greg Russell]

In news:u8ge1snUKHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
Mike typed:

> I hit the key to let it boot & as windows splash screen came up,
> display was very whacked out, so I wasn't even going to be able to
> see message to log on, etc., so I shut down & replaced the VGA card.
> Now, it wouldn't boot at all & I get a message on the monitor to
> check video display.
> I have treied other VGA cards, as well as a PCI video card & nothing.
> I pulled all the ram & tried to boot & got a sreies of beeps,
> probably due to the ram being gone, which gives me hope that the mobo
> might still be good & at this time am just wanting to get it booted
> up to check some accounts, etc.
> Any reason why I'm getting no display & what I can do to get it up &
> running for a short while?

Of course you'll want to try a different VGA cabling and monitor to
eliminate those as potential causes.

 

[Mike]

"Greg Russell" wrote in message
news:7k978aF38f7tpU1@mid.individual.net...
> In news:u8ge1snUKHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl,
> Mike typed:
>
>> I hit the key to let it boot & as windows splash screen came up,
>> display was very whacked out, so I wasn't even going to be able to
>> see message to log on, etc., so I shut down & replaced the VGA card.
>> Now, it wouldn't boot at all & I get a message on the monitor to
>> check video display.
>> I have treied other VGA cards, as well as a PCI video card & nothing.
>> I pulled all the ram & tried to boot & got a sreies of beeps,
>> probably due to the ram being gone, which gives me hope that the mobo
>> might still be good & at this time am just wanting to get it booted
>> up to check some accounts, etc.
>> Any reason why I'm getting no display & what I can do to get it up &
>> running for a short while?
>
> Of course you'll want to try a different VGA cabling and monitor to
> eliminate those as potential causes.
>
>

Yeah, tried with another known working monitor & nothing...

 

[Pegasus [MVP]]

"Mike" wrote in message
news:u8ge1snUKHA.1372@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> This morning a WIn2k server that I have wouldn't boot up.
> I am using a Promise RAID card & have two drives mirored.
> What showed on the screen was a bunch of gibberish - lots of flickering
> characters, etc, but I could make out the message (from the raid card)
> that one of the drives had become unstable, that system could boot but
> wouldn't be fault tolerant.
> I hit the key to let it boot & as windows splash screen came up, display
> was very whacked out, so I wasn't even going to be able to see message to
> log on, etc., so I shut down & replaced the VGA card.
> Now, it wouldn't boot at all & I get a message on the monitor to check
> video display.
> I have treied other VGA cards, as well as a PCI video card & nothing.
> I pulled all the ram & tried to boot & got a sreies of beeps, probably due
> to the ram being gone, which gives me hope that the mobo might still be
> good & at this time am just wanting to get it booted up to check some
> accounts, etc.
> Any reason why I'm getting no display & what I can do to get it up &
> running for a short while?
>
>

Nothing to do with Windows - I would try a hardware newsgroup.