Re: Dell 2850 issue - (new problem)

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i will put the option back i was just clutching at straws

yes the system has a floppy (internal) and i do have the dell server cd's
its a mew server ordered it 2 weeks ago.

I have tried installing with just 1 hard drive as well as all 3 in a raid
same result

Could anyone that sucessfully installs on the perc 4e/di raid let me know
what driver version they are using or if they use the defualt windows drives
and if they do anything else all i am doing is:
Make raid
Boot to sbs CD1
i use the default windows drivers as the newest raid drivers from dell
website do not allow me to copy any files to the hard drive after the
format.
go through sbs setup formating the hard drive with a 30gig boot partition
(NTSF) then setup copies files and it reboots and the install asks about
keyboard and languages cd key pc name password etc, it then installs network
but im not asked to fill in any details it then makes the start menu and
finishies the install and then reboots.
Once it reboots the black SBS loading screen appears for 2-3 seconds and
then it will just reboot and it does this constantly.


"Keith Russo" <KeithRusso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8B7BA385-49A6-4F10-A7C1-44E0A13039A5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I just installed on 2850. First the BIOS setting is for very old OS's. I
> suggest putting back.
>
> Does this system have a floppy?
> Do you have the Dell Server CD's?
>
> "Ross Malyon" wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>> had some issues getting the cd to copy files over to the raid got that
>> sorted now by using old drivers, only trouble is after windows copies
>> files
>> and i run the normal setup it goes through all the keyboard options and i
>> enter my cdkey and password etc then it eventually restarts then the
>> black
>> loading screen appears and that small moving bar moves once and then the
>> server restarts ..
>>
>> have tried various things but im at a loss on this one..
>>
>> Anyone have any issues?
>>
>> computer has 2 gig of ram i tried disabling it in the bios so it only
>> uses
>> 256 but it did the same thing..
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>


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