Wednesday 20 February 2008

Metro start

At Metrorail today everything that could go wrong went wrong. The IT department set about setting up a work station for me.
1. Monitors would not display.
Problem: (Only found after a few hours of sukkel) the bios of the computer was a newer version than the bios sitting on the 4 monitor graphics card.
Solution: Update the bios of the graphic cards.
2. Computer won’t boot up. Burning smell wafted from the computer.
Problem: (Spent a few hours trying) Not sure, but the 4 RAID drives not responding.
Solution: Find another box.
3. Computer won’t power up.
Problem: Power supply not working.
Solution: Swapped power supplies.
4. Not finding the RAID during formatting
Problems: Wrong RAID drivers
Solution: After spending some time finally found right drivers
5. Windows keeps rebooting
Problem: RAID controller giving conflicts
Solution: Throw out controller and reformat drives

Then it is home time. Tomorrow is another day

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