Intel DX58SO accident. Need to recover BIOS and RAID

[yaazkal]

Hi, I have a pc that works as a server on my office. It has a DX58SO intel board.
Unfortunately it has suffered an accidet. It was an strong storm in the area and the roof has filtered some water drops, and then some of them touched the inside of the pc.

If I remove RAM it beeps and that tells me that at least board is selfchecking. Put RAM again and start the pc. It shows the RAID configuration, says that everything is ok and then shows this message: "The system BIOS has detected unsuccessful POST attempt(s). Possible causes include recent changes to BIOS Performance options or recent hardware changes. Press 'Y' to enter BIOS Setup or press 'N' to cancel and attempt to boot with previous settings."

The bad news is that I can't use the keyboard. I changed it from USB port to USB port and nothing. I know the keyboard is good (i'm writing with it from another pc). If I move the board jumper to maintenance mode keyboard dosen't work either.

The question is if there is a way to recover that board, and how to not lose my RAID configuration and information if I have to change the board?

Thanks for your time.

 

[coastie65]

Hi. Unplug the computer, then hit the start button to completely discharge it ( the little standby light on the mopther board will go out ). Once this done open it up and remove the CMOS battery ( round silver thing like a big watch battery on the motherbaord ). This should reset your BiOS back to the Factory default. Wait a few minutes then reinstall the battery, plug it in and try to restart it.

 

[yaazkal]

This should reset your BiOS back to the Factory default.

Tought of that, but I have a question... that will preserve my hardware RAID configuration or will erase it? it's just that I'm afraid to lose the information.

Thanks !

 

[coastie65]

You will not lose any data on the drives, but the Raid Configuration will go back to the factory settings. The same if you reflashed the BiOS. Anyway you go, you will have to reconfigure the RAID settings.

 

[yaazkal]

You will not lose any data on the drives, but the Raid Configuration will go back to the factory settings. The same if you reflashed the BiOS. Anyway you go, you will have to reconfigure the RAID settings.

It worked. Not RAID reconfiguration need it, and OS and files are there and working 😀

Still the keyboard is not working, just works when Windows is loaded completly, so if I want to hit F2 at the boot to check BIOS settings I can't.