Compaq elite 8300 SFF

[XschneepfoteX]

Hello 

i own an elite 8300 SFF 

i use it as a Gameserver kinda 

now i found there is and option to enable Raid  in bios so i can stripe 2 drives 

to do that i followed the raid intructions in the manual for this PC 

i  changed AHCI to Raid and rebootet to setup raid as the manual told 

Now its dead - No Video or output and Fans ramping up

out of 30-40 reboots  it sometimes gives me a loud Beep and numlock works and ctrl+alt+del works  but still no screen until i powercycel then same as mentioned with fan ramp up

- Ram swapped and seatet from dimm slot 1 to 4 whit 6 sticks [ not possible all ram dead ] 

- CMOS reset Done 4 times - no change

- Unpluged and cmos reset plus coincell out - no change

- PSU swap 3 times -no change  [yes i have got 3 - no way all dead]

- all above in varius combinations

CPU repastet a week ago and was fine temps 30-39 idel and 65  max

wat happend and how i fix it ? how can an bios optione make a whole pc a paperweigth

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You can't simply change the drive controller setting from AHCI to RAID or the PC won't boot up.

The only suggestion I can offer at this point would be to try reinstalling Windows with the RAID setting enabled in the BIOS or change the BIOS setting back to AHCI and hope the PC boots up again.

[XschneepfoteX]

no u missunderstanding ... The WHole Machine is not postin anymore on ly green light and Fan ramup

if changed i would get an error thats not bootable 

he sytsem is not posting 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Okay, so if you can't do anything with the PC, most likely it's wrecked. 

[XschneepfoteX · Accepted solution]

some mirrical happend 

i thinkering whit it about 8 hours 

it boots now 

i have let it ramping his fans and about 40 min he got it 

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Glad you got it to work again.