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Firstly I know very little about servers and raid etc.

I have a very old dell 6450.

It has been fine since 2000, but today it won't boot up.

It just says "No boot device available - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility", where before it would go through some PERC2 RAID stuff and then boot.

I have 3 hard drives using the PERC2 RAID controller, and they all have a green light.

If anyone could offer some advice, as I really have no idea what I'm doing.
 
Thanks for the help.

The bios does not mention raid, and lists no hard drives.

When it boots it usually talks about the perc 2 like this:
DELL_PE_6450_13.jpg


But now it does not.
 
The picture above was just to show what it normally says regarding the perc raid card.

Now, it skips all the raid stuff and just goes straight to "no boot devices available".
 
No. It worked fine for 6 years and now when it boots the bios has no mention of the perc card, just the onboard scsi. It can't find the a boot device because it is not picking up the prec controller.

If my perc2/dc has gone, I'm screwed.
 
Problem solved.

I swapped it with another pci slot and now it works. For some reason it just won't work with the pci slot it was in for so many years.

This is such a huge relief for me. I run a not for profit educational website, and this would have been the death of it.

I would like that thank those who helped me above: thank you so much.
 
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