I have a Dell PowerEdge 2450 server that won't boot past the original "Two 866 MHz Processors, Processor Bus: 133 MHz, L2 cache: 256 KB Advanced." after the original dell start up bar disappears. I can't enter Setup or Utility Mode unless I remove the battery and the clock gets reset. Only then can I get it into the bios. Please help. I can't seem to get it to boot further or start from any CD I put in the drive. I also don't have any original disk boot set or any repair disks. Just windows server 2000.
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Power down thy system,pull the hard drive half way out remove all cards from the slots power up see if you go pass the processor etc,if not go into the system setup f2,integrated devices turn them all.see if you go further if you do go back in turn the devices on one by one,do not put the hard drives in yet.wait until you turn the scsi controler assuming you are using the integrated card.If you still cant the on board raid controler uses a raid dim if you can change thi note it must be the same type.
Good luck
FIrstly reseat all removable components in the system and retry
Second remove all DIMMS except one. try again
I not then remove this DIMM and put in another one. This is to test for a faulty DIMM thats hanging the POST
TRy these things and see if you get further
Mark
Ok cool now have you definately reseated the processors as well which would be my next step
Also then to try removnig one processor and then the other would also help you elininate the proble
Please try this and then let me know
Mark
OK well you got to this stage nothing to loose by doing the following
REmove again all pluggable options CPU mem etc and from Tandy? purchase a can of compressed air and also contact cleaner.
Blast the system out and when done gently spray a small amount onto the slot for the cpu and memory and also on the edge connectors for the cpu and mem that go into the slots...
Its worth a try but things a looking nearber to a motherboard failure
let me know how this works out..
Mark
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I went and resat all of the removable components and restarted. I then removed he DIMMS and try them one at a time. It still hangs up and unless I remove the battery still I can't access the bios.
I tried to remove each one of the processors individually. I then resat each one separately. Placing one in the others slot hoping thinking that maybe one of the slots is bad but unfortunately the machine still sticks at the same point. Also now even removing the battery it comes up with error saying change date and time and when I click F2 the system just locks with the top right of the screen saying entering setup.
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