Compaq server proliant m330e endless loop

Ok so it's graduation day, I have moved up from pc's to servers. I bought this server as a toy, and now I am about to loose my mind.
To Start, 933mhz 512mb ram, ide raid array 4, 20 gb hd's All working fine.

Originaly I bought this, it had windows 2k on it, and was a functional server, unfortunately it was a mirrored array and I couldn't think of a reason any of the information I had would be that valuable, so I re aranged the array using the on board utility and went about reformating, well as I go to compaq get the smart start disk, and start installing everything it dawns on me that a 4th 20 gb drive is what the doctor ordered (it came with three I had another and an open place on the array) so I pulled the plug thinking starting over would be easy. Well that was 4 days ago now. I have tried everything, I formated the array using xfdisk, and it shows up as 76,000+mbs all is well, until I pop in the smart start disk and it says something to the effect of you already started this, now go back and erase it using the compaq erase tool, so I did that (about 25 times) each time it says there are no logical drives, even after I partitioned it twice once with ntfs volume, once with fat 32 nothing. when it sttarts after the erase I go back to the late eighties (the bios clock) and after I take care of that low and behold the process starts all over again with you started it now you have to finish. I have tried making a new floppy for the process, formating, pulling the cmos battery out, erasing I have no idea where this is being stored. Someone HELP!!!


Thanks,
Bob

 

Try resetting the CMOS chip on the motherboard. This can be done by removing the battery or resetting the jumper.

If you have another PC about, try connecting the HDDs one by one to that and formatting them.

 

I already pulled the battery out, I'll try formatting them 1 by 1 I can do that with fdisk.