July 20, 201114 yr Hi all, after having nearly 6 months of flawless operation I came home to find my unRaid box powered down, which in itself is odd, but I wasn't particularly concerned as I have had it on a UPS the entire time, running the APC shutdown script. My other media center PC had also shut down so I figured it had hit its run length and shut down as I told it to. Well, now it won't come back up. I've trawled through the last log written - but I have no idea what I am looking for in terms of debugging the issue. The unit was not headless, but even when connecting a keyboard and monitor I get zero response from it - so I am working on the assumption that the motherboard/cpu/memory mysteriously fried itself. The power supply still works, and all the drives in my ICY dock spin up and boot check, it just never fully boots. I am very hopeful someone more knowledgeable than I can spot something I've missed, but I am praying I don't have a dead array on my hands. I've attached the log I could get my hands on from my desktop (for some reason it thought it was the 20th which is also odd) Thanks in advance, please let me know if you need any additional info. Cheers, Rich syslog.txt
July 20, 201114 yr Author Absolutely nothing, which is why I am thinking it's the MOBO, or CPU, or GFX, or a combination of all of the above. I have just tried reseating the memory, graphics card, and ejected all the drive cages to see if it will at least post boot but I get nothing.
July 20, 201114 yr Author The only card I have in is the gfx card, in the PCI-E bus. Everything else is onboard on the MOBO.
July 20, 201114 yr Author No joy with a different card, I validated the original card worked in another system and it works just fine. I dug more into the debug LED's on the MOBO (Biostar T43E-Combo) and it's showing that there's a VGA error, which would be consistent with what I am seeing, so given the card is ok, and I checked with another card I know works from my workstation, it looks like the MOBO is toast, at least on the PCI-E bus. Is there anything else on the debug log to give me any additional pointers? Thanks in advance for your help.
July 20, 201114 yr So you've pulled all add-on cards right? And you've installed a known good video card? PCI-E? ... can you try an AGP or PCI card in there? Debug codes are nice but ... Have you swapped in known good memory? Have you swapped in a known good power supply? Beyond those you might try a CMOS reset in the hopes that your bios got scrambled and you can get it back. Otherwise, your only left with getting a new motherboard. At least we survive on cheap components here at Unraid ;-)
July 22, 201114 yr Author Ironically that's what Biostar told me to try as a last result, so out comes the MOBO battery
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