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Metal · 01-09-2008, 06:45 AM

Well I had my 4200 running less than a day and it appears bricked.
As I stated in another thread I was able to power down my 4400 transfer the drives to the 4200 and power back on, the only caveat to this was the drives had to re sync and the server name, registration key and software entitlement keys had to be reentered.
Since this 4200 only was a celron 2.0 with 256mb of ram once I was satisfied the server was running properly I shut it down and installed 3GB of Kingston ECC memory and a P4 2.66Ghz CPU (533fsb) I thought the 533FSB might be a problem from the start but I figured WTF give it a shot. After the upgrade without putting the top cover on I powered the server back on and the fan stayed on high and did not come online, ASSuming it was the CPU I installed a 2Ghz P4 CPU 400MHz FSB and 512kb cache, no go, thinking I may have had a bad ram stick I tried one stick at a time until I cycled through 5 1GB ECC chips... that's when I noticed the reed switch (chassis intrusion?) put the cover back on and tried again, nothing but high fan, no video output no termanial output.
I reinstalled the Celeron CPU and 256MB stick of ram and it's been running on high all night still no POST
Any ideas?
Adaptec felt it was entitled from a v3x to v4 guardian OS last week so is there a chance this server is still under warranty?

01-09-2008, 06:45 AM	#1
Metal Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Detroit Posts: 31	bricked 4200 Well I had my 4200 running less than a day and it appears bricked. As I stated in another thread I was able to power down my 4400 transfer the drives to the 4200 and power back on, the only caveat to this was the drives had to re sync and the server name, registration key and software entitlement keys had to be reentered. Since this 4200 only was a celron 2.0 with 256mb of ram once I was satisfied the server was running properly I shut it down and installed 3GB of Kingston ECC memory and a P4 2.66Ghz CPU (533fsb) I thought the 533FSB might be a problem from the start but I figured WTF give it a shot. After the upgrade without putting the top cover on I powered the server back on and the fan stayed on high and did not come online, ASSuming it was the CPU I installed a 2Ghz P4 CPU 400MHz FSB and 512kb cache, no go, thinking I may have had a bad ram stick I tried one stick at a time until I cycled through 5 1GB ECC chips... that's when I noticed the reed switch (chassis intrusion?) put the cover back on and tried again, nothing but high fan, no video output no termanial output. I reinstalled the Celeron CPU and 256MB stick of ram and it's been running on high all night still no POST Any ideas? Adaptec felt it was entitled from a v3x to v4 guardian OS last week so is there a chance this server is still under warranty?