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Server will not reboot after any installation - operating system not found

Asked by AnnaWilde in SBS Small Business Server

Hi

We have a Windows  SBS 2003 server (premium edition). It's an IBM e-server x-series 206m with 2gb ram, was built at the end of Aug 06. It has 2 Maxtor disks in a RAID. There is a small network of about 10 client computers, all running XP professional. There is Active Directory on the server and no other domain controllers in the network.

The problem is that every time we install anything on the server - e.g. SQL server - the next time we reboot the server either as part of the install or at a later date, the server won't boot. It finds the disks and reports that the RAID is Optimal and then we go into the usual sequence but instead of seeing the Windows screen we get 'operating system not found'.

We have done all the obvious things like looking at the boot sequence/setup/bios  - all seems fine
We take it back to the engineers where they report that it boots okay and there are no problems.

It's been back to the engineers many times - their solution is not to install anything on the server but we use it for development and need to have certain things running on there (like SQL for example). Also I can't accept that simply installing something and rebooting is causing this problem and have lost faith in the engineers. The server is not used as a workstation and these are not crashes, they are planned reboots. Also the server works fine as a file server

We're reasonably techie but not very knowledgeable about hardware problems or the inner details of things like Active Directory  so all help/thoughts would be appreciated - just as long as 'I don't know' is an acceptable answer!

Many thanks

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