[mdlug] Fixing a Dell Precision server

[David McMillan]

On 2/12/2012 2:25 PM, Mat Enders wrote:

> Replacing the cmos battery may have been coincidental. What was the up time before that?  When running the live cd does it see the SCSI bus?  If it sees the bus does it see the drive?

	Well that was a molehill rather than a mountain.  On first boot, I went 
into the BIOS setting in order to set the (IDE) CD-ROM as a boot device. 
  And while cruising through the settings, under "Integrated 
Peripherals", guess what?  There was an entry for the mobo SCSI 
controller, and it was set to "Off."  Switched in "On," rebooted, and 
the whole shebang worked -- XP booted perfectly.  So it looks like, for 
whatever reason, a BIOS reset shuts off the SCSI controller on this 
model of workstation.
	I do appreciate all the responses, though.  I honestly thought this was 
going to be a bigger deal.