Hey all. Let me start off with what happend today. I was minding my own business when all the sudden I got a call from an office I do work for. They were looking to clear some space off their C drive. They had NO SPACE LEFT. I told them to run the disk Cleanup, they did. Upon restart, all these files could not be found. I ran CHKDSK, I replaced the files, etc. I tried everything. I said **** this, got their most recent backup and decided to reformat the damn thing, then restore the backup. Sounds like a piece of cake. Well, I reconfigure their raid to allow more space for the c drive. I then proceed to the setup disk. I partition the drives, and the windows disk copies everything over, reboots, and gets into the normal setup. But get this. Randomly I recieve BSOD screens. Some relating to 0x07f, and some to 0x08e and 8f. I researched these and could not find squat. Sometimes it will happen at the "Detecting Devices" screen, sometimes during "Copying Files". But I tried everything. Full Formats, Checking and changing raid arrays. But to no avail. I have no idea whats wrong!!! If I cant find any help tonight, then in the morning im going to put their PERC drivers onto a floppy, and install windows 2000 Advanced server, then upgrade from there. If it dosnt give me blue screens left and right. UGH I HATE THIS!!! Any Suggestions? BTW its a Poweredge 2600 Server. Blue light is on meaning it is A OK

its giving BSOD screen at detecting devices it means it cant find the raid controllers in the system. Before installing the operating system better install the raid drivers after installing the drivers run the setup. for installing raid drivers if it is scsi insert the 2003 cd rom and press F6 for installing the scsi raid controllers it will recognize the controllers and change the destination path of the os to another volume or drive sometimes it may work. it should be in NTFS format sisdfsafsafasfasf

"Before installing the operating system better install the raid drivers" Doesn't work like that. "got their most recent backup and decided to reformat" Backup was tested as good? If not you have taken one heck of a gamble. You jumped the gun. Format is the LAST RESORT. You should have taken care of the disk space issue first. Then you would have done a repair install. Sounds to me like they NEVER DEFRAGGED the server system. NTFS will become corrupt and the OS will not load under sever fragmentation. But anyway what you descibe sounds like a hardware issue. No blue light is going to tell you anything until a catistopic failure. check fans for cooling, cpu temps, reseat the ram/cables. If a dell diagnostic program available run it Is the hardware under dell maintenance? If so I would have them come check it out. Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search