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07-16-2005 01:49 AM
07-16-2005 01:49 AM
Tip: Why our ProLiant ML310 wouldn't boot...
Avoid wailing and knashing of teeth. Passing on a tip. I had recently replaced the ATA cable to the CD-ROM reader in an infrequently used ML310 (2 GHz P4, 1 GB, 80 GB mirrored) that we're gonna implement as a workgroup database server. The CD-ROM cable did not have keyed sockets, and was installed reversed at the motherboard because the IDE CD-ROM plug at the motherboard is reversed. Looking closely, it appears that the CD-ROM cable plug is reversed to prevent twisting the data cable.
Before correctly reinstalling the CD-ROM data cable, the ML310 wouldn't boot; no POST. All system health LEDs were green, so we were baffled. Reading a few posts here about resocketing everything as a debugging technique for similar behavior gave us a diagnostic clue. All devices were removed (including the CPU, which we resocketed), and the ML310 was powered on. POST worked correctly, so we knew that the m/b was OK. Selectively adding cables until POST failure isolated the CD-ROM cable.
So carefully connect sockets to plugs. If you do it incorrectly, there's no indication by the POST of what's wrong, as POST won't run.
Hope this helps.
Before correctly reinstalling the CD-ROM data cable, the ML310 wouldn't boot; no POST. All system health LEDs were green, so we were baffled. Reading a few posts here about resocketing everything as a debugging technique for similar behavior gave us a diagnostic clue. All devices were removed (including the CPU, which we resocketed), and the ML310 was powered on. POST worked correctly, so we knew that the m/b was OK. Selectively adding cables until POST failure isolated the CD-ROM cable.
So carefully connect sockets to plugs. If you do it incorrectly, there's no indication by the POST of what's wrong, as POST won't run.
Hope this helps.
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07-19-2005 07:04 AM
07-19-2005 07:04 AM
Re: Tip: Why our ProLiant ML310 wouldn't boot...
FYI.
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