Hello, I am new to this forum. I recently got my first dell poweredge 1950 to start learning servers with. I bought it second hand and once I finally got it booting I get an error about a battery being dead or disconnected. There is no operating system currently installed. I plan to install windows server 2003 atm just to get something on there until I can get my hands on 2008. The battery it is referring to is for the raid controller. I heard the battery dies when the system is left alone too long and I am guessing that is the case here. How can I know for sure if I have to replace the battery? I heard I should make sure the BIOS is up to date but with no operating system installed on it is it going to be doable to install a BIOS update? I haven't installed the OS yet because I figured I needed to get the raid working first. The hard drive power up and are listed under the raid controller settings <ctrl> <r> so I know they are working but I get the error when I boot about the battery being dead or disconnected. Also when I try and run the server install I get an error that there is no harddrives.
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