trouble booting

[cyberjock]

I'd call THAT an epic fail!

I'd want to immediately call it a hardware failure, but it "could" be a software problem. You'll have to do some diagnostic and maybe some part swapping to identify the culprit.

 

[jumpy]

all i've had since starting this project is problems

 

[cyberjock]

You are NOT allowed to touch my FreeNAS server. You can looky, but no touchy! LOL.

 

[jumpy]

Once upon a time...I was good with electronics.....now not so much

 

[jumpy]

ok i found the bad ram. been lazy and burnt out on fucking with the machine.

doing a ramtest anyways though...

going to do an RMA with G.SKILL. so this should solve the booting troubles i'm having?

 

[cyberjock]

Maybe... wait until you get good RAM and you'll find out :P

I'd say if it doesn't work with the good RAM you either have another hardware problem(that would be bad luck) or your hardware just isn't compatible with FreeBSD. You could look into updating your motherboard BIOS.

Note: I didn't read through all 5 pages so I may have repeated myself or made a bad assumption. I'm quite busy with my FreeNAS server right now but I figured I'd at least reply to you.

 

[jumpy]

it's all good. appreciate the reply ;D

hmm i guess i may have to buy a dvd drive afterall if i'm to update my bios, eh.

oh. if i update my bios. where would the data go? to the main os drive?

edit: i have 3 8gb DDR3 RAM sticks that are working as far as i know. its 36% through the test and i'll find out for sure though.

 

[cyberjock]

You could make a bootable USB stick and copy the bios file and the program that does the flashing to USB. Some BIOSes can flash from inside the BIOS, you just put the BIOS update on a USB stick and plug it in.

You'd have to read the instructions for your machine to see how you can flash it, then decide the best way for you to accomplish it.

 

[jumpy]

omg that is so weird.

so i've been having a recurring problem where the OS won't keep an IP stable. keeps reverting to 0.0.0.0. took out the bad RAM...did a memtest. plugged the thumb drive in (without a fresh re-install of the OS) and it booted up with the old ip. checked to see if it would connect and it did.

i'm so confused...how does RAM effect it like this

 

[jumpy]

edit. everything is working so far lol

 

[cyberjock]

Can you ping the IP?

If not, then you still have a problem(obviously).

Sounds like you may have more troubleshooting to do.