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PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:08 am    Post subject: LSI megaraid i4 no bios prompt (solved: it was busted) Reply with quote

...so i can't get into the card's bios/setup

the card was missing the J2 jumper which is "bios enable".

so i put that jumper on. but still no joy.

when i boot into a very new gentoo install
lspci shows the card.

it's in the second pci slot of a:
compaq presario 5108
athlon 1200/100 stepping 02
128 MB of ram

the machine's bios won't let me disable on board stuff. so it has some overlapping IRQs.
the bios sees a new mem controller in pci slot two, and two raid controllers.

any ideas? the machine doesn't let me see crap of what's going on. just displays the compaq logo and the memory count ("full" boot test is set in bios). then goes straight to grub.
i've tried holding down ctrl-m, and ctrl-M, and i've tried tapping them also (sometimes you have to tap del repeatedly to get into the machine's bios.

i don't see any jumpers on this MB, but i could be wrong.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:15 am    Post subject: Re: LSI megaraid i4 not displaying its bios prompt Reply with quote

Oo.et.oO wrote:
the card was missing the J2 jumper which is "bios enable". so i put that jumper on. but still no joy.

What happened when there was no jumper ? At least some LSI cards seem to interpret it the non-obvious way (ie jumper present means BIOS is disabled), at least according to the documentation (that PDF is not for your particular card, it's for a 320-2E SCSI RAID card, but the one for your card does not mention how the jumper is interpreted).
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:28 am    Post subject: Re: LSI megaraid i4 not displaying its bios prompt Reply with quote

widan wrote:
Oo.et.oO wrote:
the card was missing the J2 jumper which is "bios enable". so i put that jumper on. but still no joy.

What happened when there was no jumper ? At least some LSI cards seem to interpret it the non-obvious way (ie jumper present means BIOS is disabled), at least according to the documentation (that PDF is not for your particular card, it's for a 320-2E SCSI RAID card, but the one for your card does not mention how the jumper is interpreted).


same response (or lack there of) with jumper or none.

i'm gonna put the card in another machine to see what happens.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 10:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

put the card in another machine and i still don't get any card bios info/prompt.

i think this thing is busted.
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 11:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the onboard BIOS got corrupt in some way. There is a checksum in the ROM header and if it does not match the BIOS won't be loaded. You can try to reflash it (you will need to get the flashing tool and BIOS on LSI site) just in case.
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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BTW...

i bit the bullet and bought a new card and it *just worked*.

so the old one was def. busted. gotta love ebay. got my money back sans shipping.
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