Hi all,

I hate to post this here, but I'm in a bit of a tailspin and hoping someone might be kind enough to help get me on the right path.

The situation I think is that I shutdown my server from the GUI after trying to add a new M2 cache drive to its own pool, without a drive assigned ( the drive wasn't recognized, possibly not seated properly?), and the array wouldnt start without the new cache pool assigned to a disk. I hit shutdown without thinking to remove the new pool... I moved the server to a spot I could reseat the drive, and after starting it back up the cpu and drive fans came on but no boot.

Hard shutdown, removed the M2, server powered up, but now I've got nothing. No display out, can't seem to get to BIOS, etc. I feel it's now a hardware issue, and from the bit of searching I've done, it seems like it's unplug the drives and PCIE card/reset CMOS and try to get back into BIOS and start from scratch?

Sorry, I know this must be annoying, but just wanted to see if there was anything else I could try before doing work for the sake of work and still not getting any further. Thank you anyone taking the time to read this.

2 hours ago, lasciuosfloy said:

reset CMOS

Did you try this?

Hi Jorge, thanks for getting back to me.

No, I haven't tried to reset yet. I posted here and called it a night. I will try that later tonight as soon as I can.

I forgot to mention that after removing the M2 and powering up, everything appeared to be going through its startup routine, but it doesn't seem to progress. I will post back as soon as I try the CMOS reset.

Thanks again Jorge. I'm back up and running after the CMOS reset (albeit without the M2 drive, which I still can't seem to get recognized, but that's a task for later...) . If anyone else is here with the same issue, it seems like it was the GPU that was holding me out from booting. After I removed it, I could get back to the BIOS and set everything back up.