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Old 04-22-2021, 07:30 PM   #31
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You should try reseating the controller card. Large PCIe cards can get misaligned during transport.

Disconnect the power cord (otherwise there will be standby power to the PCIe slots), and then remove the card and put it back into the slot a few times.
Did so, still not recognized, but in other news, the green lights on the drive bays with the drives in them started flashing
 
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Can you change the boot settings from UEFI to Legacy or vice versa?

Some controllers actually need to have their firmware flashed in order to work in a different mode, and perhaps he previous owner used the opposite settings of whatever the current settings are.
 
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Can you change the boot settings from UEFI to Legacy or vice versa?

Some controllers actually need to have their firmware flashed in order to work in a different mode, and perhaps he previous owner used the opposite settings of whatever the current settings are.
I'll test that next
 
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Can you change the boot settings from UEFI to Legacy or vice versa?

Some controllers actually need to have their firmware flashed in order to work in a different mode, and perhaps he previous owner used the opposite settings of whatever the current settings are.
Not finding that option, and I looked through everything in the BIOS
 
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Not finding that option, and I looked through everything in the BIOS
According to the manual, the option is called "EFI Optimized Boot" (page 99). Enabling this is the same as disabling legacy/MBR booting.

Are the two topmost options listed on page 85 (Advanced > Mass Storage) visible on your system?
 
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According to the manual, the option is called "EFI Optimized Boot" (page 99). Enabling this is the same as disabling legacy/MBR booting.

Are the two topmost options listed on page 85 (Advanced > Mass Storage) visible on your system?
Ahhh, alright, I'll see if that works
 
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According to the manual, the option is called "EFI Optimized Boot" (page 99). Enabling this is the same as disabling legacy/MBR booting.

Are the two topmost options listed on page 85 (Advanced > Mass Storage) visible on your system?
No the two options are not visible there, not from what I've seen
 
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I've got BIOS version 1.23.1114
 
Old 04-23-2021, 06:07 AM   #39
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No the two options are not visible there, not from what I've seen
OK, just wanted to make absolutely sure.

So far, we've learned this:

- your system has a dedicated PCIe RAID controller
- it seems the option ROM of said controller isn't invoked during POST
- reseating the controller produced this result:
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Did so, still not recognized, but in other news, the green lights on the drive bays with the drives in them started flashing
...which indicates that the controller is now initializing the drives, something it previously failed to do. Still no option ROM message, though.

The controller might be broken, but the problem could still be caused by a poor PCIe connection. Try moving the card to a different PCIe slot, and make sure the "EFI Optimized Boot" BIOS setting mentioned earlier is set to "Disabled".

What should happen during boot, it that a message saying something like "LSI MegaRAID SAS-MFI BIOS" should appear onscreen (I'm just guessing that it's probably a MegaRAID controller), followed by a list of drives. At this point, pressing a certain key combination (Ctrl-H if it is indeed an LSI controller) would take you to the RAID setup utility.
 
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OK, just wanted to make absolutely sure.

So far, we've learned this:

- your system has a dedicated PCIe RAID controller
- it seems the option ROM of said controller isn't invoked during POST
- reseating the controller produced this result:
...which indicates that the controller is now initializing the drives, something it previously failed to do. Still no option ROM message, though.

The controller might be broken, but the problem could still be caused by a poor PCIe connection. Try moving the card to a different PCIe slot, and make sure the "EFI Optimized Boot" BIOS setting mentioned earlier is set to "Disabled".

What should happen during boot, it that a message saying something like "LSI MegaRAID SAS-MFI BIOS" should appear onscreen (I'm just guessing that it's probably a MegaRAID controller), followed by a list of drives. At this point, pressing a certain key combination (Ctrl-H if it is indeed an LSI controller) would take you to the RAID setup utility.
Finally found the ridiculously small sticker on the card, identifying it as an Intel Raid RS2BL080. Still no options appearing in BIOS or after. spamming ctrl+h has not helped. Going to work on updating bios and raid firmware
 
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Here's the manual for the RS2BL080, and here's the front and back of the Quick Start Guide card.

According to the Quick Start Guide, the option ROM should clear the screen and display the messages "RAID Controller BIOS Version <version_number> (Build <date>)" and "Press <Ctrl><G> to enter the RAID BIOS Console".
 
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Here's the manual for the RS2BL080, and here's the front and back of the Quick Start Guide card.

According to the Quick Start Guide, the option ROM should clear the screen and display the messages "RAID Controller BIOS Version <version_number> (Build <date>)" and "Press <Ctrl><G> to enter the RAID BIOS Console".
sorry for late reply, ill try gtrl g but im telling you the raid options never popped up
 
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ctrl + g did not work. when the server turns on I see the "press key to enter BIOS" screen and after that it jumps straight to "checking for boot drive"
 
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There's no point searching for options the external RAID controller in the system BIOS, as it's a separate component. It should be visible as a boot option though, but that requires that its option ROM is recognized and run.

The only settings I can think of that might affect the controller (beside the EFI one mentioned earlier), are the two "Onboard NICx ROM" settings. The address space available for legacy option ROMs is limited, so you could try disabling those. They are only relevant if you want to boot the system over a network using PXE.

But it really does seem that the controller is broken. Have you tried reflashing it?

If you have access to another computer with a suitable PCIe slot (doesn't have to be exactly the right length, the card just has to fit), try installing the controller and see if the boot message appears.
 
  


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