windows server 2008 starts up with integrated RAID exception detected: volume (00:000) is currently in state degraded enter SAS configuration utility

[almebad]

what does this mean?

 

[Josephur]

Most likely means that one of the hard drives in the array has fell out. Could be the drive is going bad, could be the array just needs rebuilt. If you go into your SAS configuration you can probably find more details.