Good evening all,
The situation up until the REAL point of failure;
- Dual Opteron 2300 Quad-Core (I'm not positive but I think theyre running at 2.6Ghz)
- 24Gb RAM (2Rx4 PC2-5300P-555) (lost 8Gb to a bad stick on Friday)
- RAID: HP Smart Array P400i/256MB with BBWC (RAID 0/1/1+0/5)
Failure;
I am attempting to enter setup (F2 @ Boot...) to deal with a separate HDD issue (I/O error, Invalid or non-system disk, I think I've got that one covered though). However when attempting to enter setup, NONE of my USB or PS/2 port(s) are operational.
caveat: If booted to a LiveCD USB and PS/2 work just fine making me think physical layer is out of the equation.
Here's a breakdown of what I've done so far:
- Multiple Keyboards on all USB ports
- Rebooted (Rebooted between keyboards too)
- Multiple Keyboards with "USB > PS/2" adapters (single PS/2 port)
- Rebooted (Rebooted between keyboards too)
- Attempted to change BIOS to enable USB
- (BIOS is password Protected...)
- Shut Down
- (BIOS is password Protected...)
- Pulled the CMOS and let it sit for about 20-min
- (Returned CMOS "its in the proper way I checked")
- Booted
- (Returned CMOS "its in the proper way I checked")
- Adjusted Maintenance Jumper 5 to ON "Power-On Password is Disabled"
- Adjusted Maintenance Jumper 6 to ON "System Config invalid to clear NVRAM"
- Rebooted
So for now I'm at a loss. If anyone's got any brilliant ideas (except Drop Tests...) I'm open to ideas...
Edit1: iLO Port was never configured to my knowledge, think of me as the dying server parts-yard for future emergent repairs...