Strange boot loop - Supermicro/Intel

[AUPhil]

Hey Everybody,

I have a rather vanilla Supermicro dual Xeon system with an integrated LSI 2208 card, two Hitachi 10k SAS drives in a raid1 array.

For about a year, Windows 2012 R2 was installed and the system was used for SAS analysis stuff. Rather boring.

A few months of non-use go by, and I get back to it for another run of analyses and notice that the system now does not boot unless I am sitting in front of the console (or on ipmi) and press F11 then select the LSI virtual drive as the boot device, then hit enter. Once I do that, I'm home free and everything works fine.

If I am not on hand to press F11 then select the boot device, the system just loops through POST, LSI POST, then back to POST.

Again, once I manually force the boot device via F11 as the LSI drive, everything is fine. Windows is rock solid.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
AUPhil

 

[Entilza]

So it worked fine with the reboots originally?

Basics are motherboard BIOS / LSI firmware..

Check supermicro's website they have a FAQ section that's actually not bad. I would even email them I bet they respond directly to you..

 

[AUPhil]

Yeah everything was A-OK after I built it, ran solid for a year. Then I abandoned it for about 3 months.

I'll check into the LSI firmware as delivered by Supermicro.

 

[deaedius]

If it was unplugged for an extended period of time, it could be an issue with a battery.