From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 7 21:39:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 426ED1065670 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f190.google.com (mail-yw0-f190.google.com [209.85.211.190]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B338FC15 for ; Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh28 with SMTP id 28so2823788ywh.27 for ; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:39:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=eIGvM8gAMLr7Ts0pFktLQVJyWMLuNWVnLl7RB8FakIA=; b=v64hzdPkNIqxHv2ptmRgfLWkbSW1KL1MU6w6UM2zxOvn36SsFPfx9XyPgOQMvFVx9F C0LkfwmhNWy32TJuTht7ImO6Pq5yBB4JkCebQK7CmUTQ0ad+k5dKDlwKHI14opXttWYg 3KliOdXkTleIcHKNneVe1Or/LQME0+2UQRW78= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kbyhOUUtq8Hrf7KuBgQ6+V2c61YhvviFpQsizy+uJExobQvrF0TjG2EjnFY3gYka3/ 8nRk0tWLy7WIZugMad/MvL0fs3jkB/hoJSBMk24IoFjlAqQ8fNATJqggR/mqNd37Wrjs JMjyePk8Tp+pUj7Bd0cUvxA/4S4PAiff8eIqw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.242.20 with SMTP id p20mr957773anh.183.1249681187133; Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:39:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090807212050.GB48236@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4d4e09680908061012q6ea8aeacm875c556eaea7a54f@mail.gmail.com> <4A7B1B41.7090507@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908061733v21602321x252a7111a7648ad6@mail.gmail.com> <4A7C074C.9060303@unsane.co.uk> <4d4e09680908070708x635dcd80ha96a61e9c71b0b6b@mail.gmail.com> <4d4e09680908070708i286b98a7j6f03725a848ae83c@mail.gmail.com> <20090807153027.GA39621@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4d4e09680908070847jfed3447v4863b7637585f54@mail.gmail.com> <20090807212050.GB48236@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:39:46 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Roland Smith Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Identry , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Boot failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:39:48 -0000 On 8/7/09, Roland Smith wrote: > Looks like your hardware is dying/dead. Sadly, I agree. Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard) Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your "boot drive" But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue is malfunctioning. Do you have a PCI Diagnostics card? One like the following? http://www.uxd.com/phdpci.shtml (I'm not saying that exact model, but rather a device that is able to see BIOS codes through the PCI bus that can tell very technical detail to tech support at the motherboard's vendor (you said Intel, right?).) Hardware rarely up and dies. Have you tried swapping RAM chips out, or re-ordering them to see if it might be a RAM problem? Maybe we're not passing POST, or that we're passing POST but the bootable device list is not finding bootable medium. These kind of issues intrigue me, because it is out of the norm, and why did it happen. I'd get to the point of swapping hardware one at a time until it fixes, or until you exhaust your options. Have any kind of support contract with the OEM? --Tim