Drives Causing Boot Issues.

MrDill

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Feb 4, 2014
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My machine won't boot up unless I disconnect all of the Hard Drives. I still have my two SSD's (RAID 1) that have Windows 7 Professional installed still running fine.

I had one hard drive ST4000NM0023 (4TB) fail (had four of them), and so I replaced two of them with ST10000NM0096 (10TB) drives.

I had software backing up the failed drive, which was my D: (Documents & Program Files) drive. The backup drive F: (D Backup) has now been renamed my D: Drive, and I transferred all of it's files to a new F: backup drive.

I had to copy & paste everything from one folder over to another one of the same name because Windows 7 had automatically installed new folders with the proper icons on them. I had two of "My Pictures", "My Documents", etc.., with one having an icon and one not.

It seems like I had to move my files to the new folders or else my other programs couldn't seem to find the files they needed even though the the folders had the same name, minus the icon.

Copying files from folder to folder was very time consuming, and used all of the systems memory. I would successfully reboot the system after each successful transfer so I could restore the RAM back to 64GB.

I left the largest folder "My Documents" till last. After I successfully transferred the files in this folder over to the new "My Documents" folder with the icon on it, I tried rebooting the system and it would not work. I don't think there is anything in that folder that could have caused this.

I disconnected all the hard drives and tried adding one at a time when rebooting, but it would not reboot if I had any of them in. I now have to push the Reset Button to reboot.
 
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Update: This system is working again. It takes 7 minutes to boot up though.

I've been working with Supermicro tech support and they figure they know the problem.

I have 2-SSD's that are SATA II, 2-HDD's that are SAS-2, and now 2-HDD's that are SAS-3. They said one is not supposed to mix SATA and SAS together.

Also, the new HDD's have not been tested compatible with my LSI 2308 controller.

I was not able to upgrade the controllers Firmware, being that it said my system was 64bit and the upgrade was for 32bit.

I did upgrade the new HDD's Firmware and the boot time went from 11:00 to 7:00. Hopefully it won't go any higher than that.

The only thing left to upgrade is my BIOS and I don't think I am up to doing that.

MrDill

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Feb 4, 2014
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Update: This system is working again. It takes 7 minutes to boot up though.

I've been working with Supermicro tech support and they figure they know the problem.

I have 2-SSD's that are SATA II, 2-HDD's that are SAS-2, and now 2-HDD's that are SAS-3. They said one is not supposed to mix SATA and SAS together.

Also, the new HDD's have not been tested compatible with my LSI 2308 controller.

I was not able to upgrade the controllers Firmware, being that it said my system was 64bit and the upgrade was for 32bit.

I did upgrade the new HDD's Firmware and the boot time went from 11:00 to 7:00. Hopefully it won't go any higher than that.

The only thing left to upgrade is my BIOS and I don't think I am up to doing that.
 
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