Refurbishing A Server

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madhad15

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I recently aquired an old IBM xServer eSeries 235x. I am normally pretty good at refurbishing old computers, namely desktops with no problems, as could be seen by what I used to have in my apartment before some spring cleaning over a year ago.

When I aquired it, it had no hard drives, 1 processor and 1 Gb of RAM installed. I quickly bought 6 SCSI drives and bays and installed them. However, when I try to install a new system on it, be it dos, linux, or a windows, it complains that something isn't installed, and I don't quite remember what it said. (I've taken a break from it for a while to work on my mustang, but now I am getting back to it)

I was wondering if anyone with any ideas or knows of any links about refurbishing a server might be able to help either with pointing me in the right direction or giving me an idea as to whats wrong. Next time I work on it, I'll post what the error message was.

Thanks in advance
 
Well right now it isn't recognizing the key board which is a completely new problem. I am using a USB keyboard, however, I route it through a mouse converter so that it plugs into the normal keyboard. I know doing this works for my desktop, and I believe when I was last playing with the server it was working for it as well. I'll probably double check that it is still working in that manner when hooked up to the desktop. Could be that I am using a different converter then before (I have like 4), or I have dropped/broken the converter since last time.
 
sounds like you've set the wrong boot sequence.
set your cd drive as first boot and scsi controller as second in your bios.
 
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