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Ayman Altounji
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No boot...

Hi there,

Let me start of by stating that I have very limited knowledge of novel and the server in question..

This is my current situation:
An (old) novel server went down due to a power cut, and hasnt been able to boot since. A that happens when I power up the machine is that it continues to display a black screen. I can see that the drives in the drive array (4 in total) are being tested one by one (the drive access led burns) but the drive on-line led remain off.
I've tried booting with a smart start cd, and by a boot disk, but with no success

Im i overlooking something stupid?, are the drives in the array damaged?, could there be an hardware malfuntion?....

Thank you for your replie..

Maurits Meijer
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Mark Cloutier
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Re: No boot...

if it isnt booting off of a cd as well as the OS then it most likely isnt software...check the system board for amber or red lights...are your fans spinning? without diagnostics its hard to say what the problem is but it could be a system board issue...
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