[jacquesm]

Clever! I'm stuck on a problem right now as well, I'm trying to boot an old server (Supermicro, dual CPU) to verify something and for the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong with it. It doesn't do anything when you power it up, even the power led on the board doesn't light up. Forcing the powersupply to 'on' does light up the LED but the system still won't boot. Already put a fresh 3V cell in it, stripped it down to the bare minimum, all jumpers in default positions, no go. And it worked perfectly fine the last time it was shut down. Highly frustrating these gremlins.

[lallysingh]

Oh, did any caps blow? There were some counterfeit ones going around some time ago...

[jacquesm]

That's a good one, did not think to check that, I'll go over all the caps on the MB.

[lallysingh]

Check your IDE cables

[jacquesm]

SCSI system, already pulled the controller out and disconnected the backplane. Really weird this one. But thank you for the suggestion. In fact, that's the whole reason I want to boot it, the drives are a hardware raid which is hard to port to a machine where the controller won't fit.