Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
IF you can find the documentation for the motherboard, see if there is a reset jumper. That jumper should reset the BIOS to factory defaults to allow it to get through the post and into setup. Some motherboards actually take you into setup with the jumper moved to reset bad configurations. A

Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion

2006-06-14 Thread Andrew Reitz
On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:11 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello again all, I know this isn't a FreeBSD question really, but I just started up a motherboard with onboard SCSI (Adaptec AIC-7896), and for some odd reason it freezes pre-POST before it attempts to boot and there isn't any way where

Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion

2006-06-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello again all, I know this isn't a FreeBSD question really, but I just started up a motherboard with onboard SCSI (Adaptec AIC-7896), and for some odd reason it freezes pre-POST before it attempts to boot and there isn't any way where I can get into the BIOS to chan