Well, now I have a bigger problem - or maybe the answer to what's going on all together. I had swapped back to the old hard drive, and straightened out the IDE cable and checked connections, just to see if that would help, and when I booted up it did the same thing. So I have another SATA/PATA converter card and I swapped, and this time the monitor came on with just a "white" screen, and now no matter what I try to get the server going, there is no video signal coming out of the onboard VGA connector. I think maybe that is what was going out, and now is completely out - would this be possible?


The Server board is Intel model SE7500CW2, and has a couple of empty PCI-X slots maybe I could try another video card - but would that even work with my SCO installation? I'm grasping at straws now.

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Update - spare video card plugged into PCI Express 133 slot 1 is working, but still not the total answer. Boot still bombs out after short try. I have tested memory, checked IDE cable and connections, and now I think I've ruled out video card issues. Any other suggestions? I don't know whether to mess with checking the CPUs or what else exactly I can check.