Question : Problem: Can't boot to OS on Dell Power Edge, 4400, Raid issues

Story: we've received these state of the art systems *cough* and have to try to put them on our network. They apparently booted up fine last week, now i have a guy on site and they are not booting at al.

Boot up
F2 setup, F11 Utility
133 mhz L2 cache 256 kb

Press ControlA - SCSI Select Util

SCSI ID: 5 NEC CD_ROM Drive 466 20.0
Power Edge Expandable Raid Controler BIOS Oct 22 1999

Press Control M to Run configuration utility

HA-0 (Bus 8 Dev 8) Type: Perc 2/dc sta fw 1.01 dram/28 mb
battery module is present on adapter
0 logical drives found on the host adapter
0 logical drives handled by bios

Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility



Information found in bios
BIOS Version A0
diskette Drive A 3.5 inch 1.44 MB
Diskette Drive B ------ Not installed
Primary SCSI-------On
Channel A------- SCSI
Channel B ------ SCSI
Secondary SCSI ---- On


I have like 0 knowledge of RAID

appreciate any help troubleshooting.

Answer : Problem: Can't boot to OS on Dell Power Edge, 4400, Raid issues

The cursor blinking screen suggests a corrupted boot sector. Try booting from a windows CD, you may be able to do an in place upgrade if the partition is still recognizable by windows. I dont think you mentioned the Operating system version. Also, what happened between "booting up fine" and "not booting at all" ?
Let me know if you need mor info on recovering using the windows CD
Cheers
Dave