How to boot dell poweredge 1950 in safe mode - PowerEdge Dell Computers & Internet

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this is common, if your place was cold its possible that something has died when turning on again, you could try and pull out ram in an order to see if one has failed, get the memtest download and make a boot disk to test the ram has not become faulty, test each stick alone, Hiren boot disk has all the good stuff for testing, its a free tecky tool for engineers.

Press it on your keyboard. This may have come up due to hardware configuration changes.

If there is no Raid card then you have to change the setting of SATA controller Native mode to IDE or Compatible mode

download dell server assistant onto a cd... youll get a menu, follow the menu. you also need the server 2003 installation cd

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If the server is running Windows, you can usually enter safe mode by repeatedly pressing F8 after you press the power switch.
You can also get into the dell utility, which lets you run memory and system tests. To access this, follow the on screen directions during boot up.

Mother board fried.

During setup you must specify any raid drivers that are required. Have the raid controller driver on floppy and insert when prompted.

You have to have raid drivers on a floppy,

I know with xp it asks you to press F6 for third party driver during installation...

This sounds like a RAM issue or a strange peripheral problem (when the driver loads it kills the system). Try running the system on only 1 stick of RAM at a time, swapping until you find a bad stick. Also, clean the contacts off with a pencil eraser before putting them in.

If this doesn't help, pull PCI cards one by one (except for the RAID card, if any - but do pull out, clean and put back in the RAID card just in case it's a contact issue) at a time until the system boots (or just try safe mode, but this won't tell you which one is a problem).

If the system still can't boot, then I'd say it's probably the motherboard.