The evil drive rail conspiracy

[Jeff7]

Seems the drive rails in my house are inhabited by evil demons. A week ago, I removed some drives to attach drive rails to them; they were part of a RAID array. I put the drives back in, and the array was destroyed - one of the drives couldn't be detected. Now I took the main drive out of my primary system, attached rails to it, and now the system will turn on, then shut itself off after about 2 seconds. Is there some drive rail conspiracy afoot here that I wasn't told about? Sheesh. Time to try to revive the system now.🙁 It gets to stage F5 in the POST code (Epox 8KHA+ with onboard POST readout), then it displays another code for a fraction of a second before shutting down.
Small update: Now it makes 2.5 beeps before shutting down - short beep, then a higher-pitched longer beep, then another one of the first's frequency, and it shuts down in the middle of that beep.
Update: reset the BIOS, and now all is well. Very strange.

 

[MedicBob]

Why blame the drive rails?

You didn't use too long of screw did ya?

That is wierd that a BIOS reset took care of it. Static maybe?

 

[Jeff7]

Cause the demons inside the rails told me so.😛
This is just a rant I guess. I don't know why I've had this bad luck lately. The screws aren't too long either; they'd need to be at least 2x longer before they'd start to hit the drive, and they'd probably snap off it I tried to screw them in any further as to cause damage.😉
If it was static, I'd expect worse problems. My hands weren't anywhere near the BIOS chip either. I'm just glad it's working; wish my RAID array had been recoverable. It's kind of tough to back up large MPEG2 files without a DVD-writer though.🙂