Michael St.Pierre Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Let me start by stating I am a bonehead for not having the server on UPS. With that out of the way, my power went out and my server was on. After the power came back on, I went into the server to see if was performing as expected and saw that the system was performing a parity check and everything else looked ok. The parity check was ~ 10 % complete and then the power went out again. Not good. Now the communication to my server is lost and the network doesn't see the tower. I changed the USB stick to my spare and made sure the boot up was set to the USB and restarted the system to no avail. I am concerned for the loss of communication as well as a potential loss of my data. Can anyone help me? I am a novice user, if you could please dumb down the answers so I may understand them, I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks a million, Michael Link to comment
Squid Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the system. When booting up, select GUI mode. After its all up and running, wait a minute or two then login and then Tools - Diagnostics, and post the file here Link to comment
Michael St.Pierre Posted June 20, 2017 Author Share Posted June 20, 2017 Hi Squid, Thanks for offering your expertise. I set up the monitor and the keyboard and I put the power to the server on. The only options it gave me was to hit "del" to run setup or "TAB" to display BIOS Post Message. I hit the "del" button and went into the BIOS Setup Utility and I didn't see a GUI mode option in any of the tabs in that utility. I did see a message during the boot up that there was "no physical disk". Should I be concerned with that message...? After that message, there was a flashing cursor on a black screen and I couldn't type anything in. I really appreciate your help. Michael Link to comment
Squid Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Don't hit del or tab. After the POST, you should have a blue menu that appears. If it doesn't appear, then check the boot order in the bios (DEL) Link to comment
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