Help booting - pulling my hair out

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TeleFragger

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I have had a computer running Server 2022 with an HBA and extender. Running stablebit drive pool with an ssd pool and sata pool.
Random drops on drives that has been frustrating me. I have upgraded to Server 2022 a few months ago.
I didnt really "upgrade" but I boot off of a thumb drive and installed server 2022 from scratch. Nice and clean install.

few days ago, I needed to power the machine off to move it off of a desk it was on. I moved it and it was working just fine.
I am getting my 10gb network up and running again so I powered it off to add my 10gb nic back in as I pulled it a while ago.

Power machine on and it goes through the bios post, cycles power and reboots. Kept doing this over and over.
I can get into the bios and it will stay up and running without rebooting so it is not a hardware issue.

I hit f12 for boot menu and select the hard drive and it just reboots.
I decided to try booting off the thumb drive again and it does the same...will not boot off of the thumb drive.

I put the thumb in another machine and all is well so thumb drive is good.

I just dont have a clue what to even try at this point as the boot menu sees both the hard drive and also the thumb but wont boot them.

I can throw a video together and put it on youtube if that helps as this is such a weird thing.

Case: Corsair 750D with 6x3 5.25 bay cages, 4 internal 2.5 bays and 3 icy dock 6x 2.5 bays
OS: Server 2022
CPU: Intel i5-6600k
MoBo: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI
RAM: 4x8gb ddr4
GFX: Nvidia Quadro k620
PSU: Corsair HX 620W


i think if i can figure out why it wont boot thumb drive, my actual hard drive will boot....
 
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i know this isnt it but swapped power supplies out, went to onboard video..
has to be something in the bios. resetting to factory didnt do it.
 
if im reading that right, the problem started after putting in your nic? have you taken it back out yet?
also, since youre working with a 6th gen chip, which is pretty old now, have you tested the cmos battery to make sure its still good? if its dying (3.1v or less) the bios might not be retaining settings correctly...
 
pendragon1 said:
if im reading that right, the problem started after putting in your nic? have you taken it back out yet?
also, since youre working with a 6th gen chip, which is pretty old now, have you tested the cmos battery to make sure its still good? if its dying (3.1v or less) the bios might not be retaining settings correctly...
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i pulled the NIC, HBA, Extender, video card (went onboard) and still doing it.
tested battery and it is good.
pulled battery for a while, unplugged power and when i fired it back up, it said that the bios was reset.
Still doing it.
i am at a total loss...
 
That's odd. Only things I would have recommended is reseting cmos, and remove all perpetuals.

Next steps are remove all but one stick of ram, reseat the cpu, and pull motherboard from the case (potentially shorted if something metal fell or moved behind the motherboard.) I would assume flashing the bios isn't on the table. Maybe replace the bios chip.

Kind sounds like a dead motherboard.
 
TeleFragger said:
i pulled the NIC, HBA, Extender, video card (went onboard) and still doing it.
tested battery and it is good.
pulled battery for a while, unplugged power and when i fired it back up, it said that the bios was reset.
Still doing it.
i am at a total loss...
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k.
disconnected everything but the os drive? may want to try that or even disconnect them all, hook up a spare if you ahve one and see if it will run/install on that
 
Any chance you damaged or jammed a PWM fan when adding or removing the NIC? Make sure they are all spinning. If you have a daisy chain and one is jammed up, could cause some funky mother board stuff. I was just watching a You tube on the very subject.
 
all looks good.. i will do a video tomorrow... it is weird and want to figure this out..

fyi - i tried a newer mobo with an i3-12700 but that system wouldnt work with my h220 hba card. tried everything and went back to ole 6th gen...
 
The HBA is listed in the bios, with drives?

How many drives you got running in there on the 620 psu, particularly old spinners? I wonder if the drives, fans, and net card all spinning up at once was too much, put a low voltage condition on the hba card. Could that have damaged it?

The cable connected to the boot drive didn't get dislodged?
 
Nobu said:
The HBA is listed in the bios, with drives?

How many drives you got running in there on the 620 psu, particularly old spinners? I wonder if the drives, fans, and net card all spinning up at once was too much, put a low voltage condition on the hba card. Could that have damaged it?

The cable connected to the boot drive didn't get dislodged?
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os drive was plugged into the motherboard...no hba in use for it.
 
Nobu said:
The HBA is listed in the bios, with drives?

How many drives you got running in there on the 620 psu, particularly old spinners? I wonder if the drives, fans, and net card all spinning up at once was too much, put a low voltage condition on the hba card. Could that have damaged it?

The cable connected to the boot drive didn't get dislodged?
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You have it right there..!!!!

normally when my pc boots, the hba shows its bios and scans through the drives... it isnt showing that, not getting that far.. system is rebooting well before it gets to the hba...
I know someone mentioned interrupt 13 when I tried a new motherboard and my hba wasnt seen...
 
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WOAH!!! I GOT IT!!!!

totally still at a loss of why but here goes...

decided to flash the bios overtop of itself. Well initially I chose the first option, forget what it is but I believe it total flash and resets. Did not change anything.
Went back in and flashed again but chose "Intact" and now it flashed and booted!!!!
just powered down and put 4 drives back to the motherboard to test small...

next nvme back in, 18x sata and 18x ssd!
 
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