<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dudley Daduwe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ddaduwe.olpcbug@gmail.com">ddaduwe.olpcbug@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Thank you for the updates on the motherboard. Please advise me as to how I could troobleshoot my E-Box server. <br>Previously I was able to connect the IDE and boot up.However, I decided to remove the original IDE HDD and put and new IDE HDD onto the server. After doing that I was not able to see any activity on the screen for about 5 minutes. So I decided to put back the original IDE HDD but still does not show any activity. Looking at the HDD LED display, I could not see any activity taking place. How can I get the server back to boot with a display on the screen.</div>
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<div>Dudley Daduwe</div>
</font><br></blockquote><div><br>Can you get into BIOS? Can the BIOS see the hard drives?<br><br>If you don't know if the machine itself is working outside the hard drives, have you tried booting from a Linux rescue CD? Some folks like Knoppix for that. I tend to use Ubuntu NBR (cause I usually have that CD on top of the stack). But there are a myriad of Linux live CDs out there.<br>
<br>If you can get into a live Linux boot, ls /dev and see if you see your hard drives. If you don't see them, or can't boot into Linux from a CD, then it's time to break the box down and reconnect the drives. Or check the power supply. I've run into so many hardware issues with the old stuff I work with, I can't even keep track of how many problems I've had.<br>
<br>Hard drives give me special trouble. If I can actually see the stubborn drives in /dev, I'll use gparted or fdisk to format to a single fat32 partition. Then the XS install usually picks it up.<br><br>Anna Schoolfield<br>
Birmingham<br></div></div>