swestrup | It Figures!

So, last night (er, this morning) I was just winging things configuring the server, and I managed to mess up all of my BIOS settings so that even the old version of the software wouldn't boot.

So, THIS time I did it in a professional manner. I pulled out my log book, wrote down all of the various pieces of hardware in the box (for later net lookup if necessary), then I reset the BIOS to factory defaults and carefully recorded every one.

Then I booted the server and confirmed that this setup doesn't work. Elapsed time: 90 minutes.

So then, the very first setting that I try fixes the problem and everything boots perfectly, and I'm now using the upgraded server to post this. Now, all I have to do is start a stress test and see if the upgraded server lacks the constant crashing that prompted me to do the upgrade in the first place. Time will tell. Anyway, I've set things up so that if the server reboots it'll reboot into the old server code, so I'll know if the test failed, but