I finally did it Tornsten
I have full access to the onboard administrator - jesus that was a nightmare
Did a 'set factory' on one of the OA's - Left the other out of the machine
It reset everything
Then I had to activate dhcp on th server, activate https
set my desktop to a static ip. Created a new user for myself with a password.
and it finally came up in the browser - the correct log in screen to the onboard administrator
Types in the default username and password and BANG - i got into the thing at last
Now I can see what is actually in the machine
you were correct bl406 gen 1 blades.
Twin xeon 3 ghz cpu, 4 gig ram etc etc
Lots of errors and warnings but I can take it from here.
jesus I have to learn a whole lot of stuff to set this up. The blades were al;ready out of the machine when i bought it , and it seems they were all ment to be in certain places - i will just have to re-do the i/o settings etc etc
But I am glad to say that I now have assess. It wasnt the leads, my desktop settings......... it was how the OA was set up by the looks of it.
once i did the 'set factory' everything started to work as you described.
Now i have to go off and learn allot more on how to set this thing up
Thank you Torsten for sticking with me - i was not far from throwing this thing out!!!!
thankful regards