Removing the CMOS coin cell battery didn't do anything unfortunately.

I did check the caps, all look ok. The fan works, it's almost deafeningly loud. I highly doubt it matters, but the drive I cloned from was out of a friend's Quantum SnapServer 1100. And his works perfectly. It doesn't have any of these problems. Seriously though, this is totally ridiculous... I'm still stumped at what the the "access" l/p could be. I did find a useful link out of this and I still can't remember how I got to it...
http://www.snapappliance.com/page.cf...upport#1089690
BTW: With the 850 update, can these things run ok in a 2003 Server environment??