akyprianou Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Hi, I have an unraid server version 5.0.5. Everything was running smoothly until today when the Server suddenly wouldn't start. In fact it completed succesfully all BIOS checks and then a blinking cursor appeared on the left upper corner of the screen. All disks seemed to be readable thru the BIOS checks and no fatal errors appeared. Any ideas why could this happen? :o Link to comment
trurl Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Probably your BIOS is not trying to boot from the flash drive. If that's the case, and you haven't changed anything, then maybe your CMOS battery needs changing. Is your BIOS clock correct? Link to comment
akyprianou Posted September 11, 2015 Author Share Posted September 11, 2015 I have this feeling you are right.... bios time is wrong, so I guess that battery is completely drained. I'll replace the battery as soon as I can and I will let you know. Link to comment
itimpi Posted September 11, 2015 Share Posted September 11, 2015 I have this feeling you are right.... bios time is wrong, so I guess that battery is completely drained. I'll replace the battery as soon as I can and I will let you know. most BIOS have a key press (F8 and F12 seem to be most common) that brings up a list of devices to boot from. This can be one way to check if the problem is the BIOS is losing the boot device you have set (which normally indicates a battery problem). Having said that many BIOS try to be helpful and can reset the boot device settings if they think can something has changed. Link to comment
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