July 31, 2025Jul 31 Hello,My server crashed today. I am unsure as to what the hell happened. Everything was good up until we had a power outage. I have my server on battery back. Was able to preform clean shutdown before the battery ran out. When I rebooted, the gui never came back up. After a couple of times trying to get it back up, I was able to get into safe mode gui. I then stupidly thought it would be a good idea to shutdown and try to flash the USB with backup zip of the flash drive.Now, I can't even get it to boot at all. Also 4 of my drives have disappeared from the bios. I have a SATA expansion card and I think the MB is no longer reading the expansion card. I think my motherboard is fucked but I hope not. I was able to download the diagnostic zip when I was in safe mode if the helpsAny advice would be appreciated gallifrey-diagnostics-20250730-1916.zip
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Community Expert 5 hours ago, Liqwid_Kirk said:Now, I can't even get it to boot at allDo you mean it doesn't post ot just Unraid doesn't boot? If the latter post a photo of the monitor.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Author 5 hours ago, JorgeB said:Do you mean it doesn't post ot just Unraid doesn't boot? If the latter post a photo of the monitor.So, after I flashed the usb drive with a backup from ealrier yesterday morning, the server just jumps immediately into the bios. Nothing I do makes it go past that.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Community Expert Try a new flash drive with a stock install, just to see if it boots.
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Author I will try that and let you know. If that doesn't work, I was thinking of trying an older flash backup. My other alternative was taking components as all my motherboard slots are full. Have two GPU's plus a USB hub and a SATA expansion card. So was thinking of taking out the second GPU and swapping the USB hub and SATA card, seeing if that works.One thing at a time though. I'll try the different USB first Edited July 31, 2025Jul 31 by Liqwid_Kirk
July 31, 2025Jul 31 Author 6 hours ago, JorgeB said:Try a new flash drive with a stock install, just to see if it boots.So that worked. It booted, I logged into the new unraid os. What does that mean? Should I completely wipe my original USB and reload a earlier flash backup? Is my USB completely screwed?
August 1, 2025Aug 1 Community Expert Solution try recreating theorigianl flash drive, first backup the current one, then recreate it using the USB tool, confirm the flash drive boots with the stock install, and if yes, restore only the /config folder from the backup overwriting any existing files.
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