processor in wrong slot after NO hardware change

[corosus]

hi

a buddy of mine is sysadmin at a company that was getting rid of it's old mailservers one of these is a compac proliant 800 with 4 * 18 gig scsi raid (pci card) and 1 600 mhz p3 processor (there are 2 slots on the mobo but only one is in use)

my buddy lives close to my parents house so he gave the server to me while i was visiting my parents. While there i did a flawless install of windows 2000 and some other programs (i even lisend to some music..)

i turned it off 5 hours before i transported it to my place, but now that i am here it keeps saying processor in wrong slot system haled

i wantto stress again i changed nothing before this

i had a look around to see if anny jumper came loose but i could see no jumpers of anny sort near either of the processors
i tried lifting and reseating both the processor and the vrm, i tried putting both in the other slot neither helped



what can i do

would resettingthe bios halp and would i have to reinstall the raid pci card after that (and if so, how would i do that??)

thanks in advance

[corosus]

ok all went well for a while, and i left to visit my parents overnight so i turned it off, and now i once again says "processor in wrong slot system haled "

what could this be ? could this mean a fawlty vrm ????


and considering that it is a raid system with a raid pci card, is there anny other way to acess the data on here???

[thefultonhow]

Check that the processor is completely seated in the slot. Also, try taking it out, blowing compressed air in the slot, and rebooting. There whould also be a card in the other slot where the second processor would go -- follow the same procedure there.

If you want to access your data, move the card and the drives to another computer -- when you boot the computer up, you'll be able to install the drivers and get the drives recognized by Windows.