I have a Dell PE 2850, Wndows server 2003. The onboard battery needed changing as indicated by error message that the memory or battery had a problem. All devices OK but items in cache had been lost. The server would POST and then try to start but auto restart after several minutes of trying to load Windows.
I removed and put it back the CMOS battery.After this While booting up, the server doesn't detect the PERC 4e/Di module at all. Before, it would do this right after listing the CPU stats, and would proceed to initialize and spin-up the drives. However, this is skipped now and it goes directly the DRAC, and so on. It then comes up with the boot error, and to strike F1 to try reboot, or F2 to setup. F1 obviously gets me nowhere.
Help will be much appriciated
Thanks & Regards
Aneesh Joseph