Its been a few years since I last touched one of these system. But make sure that the boot device is pointing to the raid card. It should take about 20 minutes to boot into the bios (just kidding but it will seem that way). If I remember correctly you could change what was the focus of the boot.
If you can boot off of cdrom you could use something like BartPE to boot the system (this is a maintenance tool). If you can see the hard drives in bartpe then your raid controller is setup ok, then I would focus on the boot device order. Also make sure you are running the current bios 1.17.
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I think this was one of the better servers IBM released during their time. The machine just worked with no issues, usingt eh default drivers from their website. We have them configured as File servers, SQL Servers and no glitches at any time. The RAID once updated to the latest level before OS install has worked flawlessly since install and these machines only need restarting on their quarterly update cycle - else they just keep running. I wish I could help these users with their machines which have had problems and any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
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