Re: PowerEdge 2950: floppy drive support?
"I only saw a choice of raid 1 and raid 0 this time. It that because there were only the two drives?"Yes. For example, if you have 4 drives, your choices will be RAID 0 (1 disk or more), RAID 1 (two...
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Thanks. I kind of thought that was it.Initialization completed. All is well as far as that's concerned.Boot to CD drive w/windows boot disk. Type fdisk and still get same "error reading fixed...
View ArticlePE1850 screen flicker with Ubuntu and CentOS
Hi Guys,I'm new to the forums so if this question is in the wrong section please let me know.I have tried installing both Ubuntu 12.04 and CentOS 6.3 (both 64bit) on a PowerEdge 1850 with 16Gb of RAM...
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i dont know if this will help, but my experience with the 1850 is that some OSes can detect that the system is capable of higher refresh rates/ resolutions than what the monitors can really handle, and...
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Hi,Thanks for the info. The monitor shows the refresh rate as being at 60Hz but I'll need to check the resolution in the morning (UK time) and I'll let you know if this cures the problemMany...
View ArticleRe: T420 Graphics support?
The process should be much easier for you as the T420 has a x16 PCIe slot designed for 75W graphics cards and the system has PEG connecters to feed your hungry graphics cards with power. So these...
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Hey there. I thought I would not hear back from you until Monday. Thanks for checking.No drivers yet. I thought after I set up the raid I was to follow the same procedure as for my other Windows XP...
View ArticleSteps for install Raid 1 H310 card + additional HDD on T320 server?
Greeting all, I am now using no raid , no controller, 1 HDD. (non hotplug) running on windows small business 2011 Essentials.Recently I purchased a H310 raid card + 1 identical HDD (non hotplug) to do...
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Hi again,Just checked the video settings and they were set at 1024x768 with a refresh rate of 60Hz and the flickering is still continuing approximately every 12 seconds.I've checked the Dell website to...
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2950: floppy drive support?
You MUST use the driver for PERC or it will not know how to talk to the controller and it will never see any drives to install to. You need to 1) provide the driver at F6 from floppy, 2) try using the...
View ArticleRe: Steps for install Raid 1 H310 card + additional HDD on T320 server?
You will need to backup and restore for this one. Configuring RAID will destroy the data on the existing disk. Because the H310 supports non-RAID, you "might" be able to put both disks on the H310 in...
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You are being very patient with me and I appreciate that.This is my first OS install on a machine using raid. I assumed it was first necessary to set up the drive (usually one large single partition in...
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2950: floppy drive support?
You are being very patient with me and I appreciate that.This is my first OS install on a machine using raid. I assumed it was first necessary to set up the drive (usually one large single partition in...
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It is necessary to first create the disk that Windows will see and use (creating a RAID array). This is really the only fundamental difference between installing XP on this server and installing XP on...
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Creating the new CD in nliteOS. The "multiple" driver you suggested yesterday is a .exe needing to run from inside windows, correct? Would I not need to be using a single driver file for it to install...
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nLite cannot use the EXE (in fact NO method can use the EXE file itself) - it is a self-extracting EXE. Download the driver file, then run it to extract the drivers before doing anything. The 6-9...
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OK. Did as you said. All files now sitting in a folder.So my first attempt failed. Windows said "setup could not find floppy drive to load drivers". I did select F6 when asked.So I will make another...
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If you use nlite, then you don't need to do the F6 thing.As drivers.
View ArticleRe: PowerEdge 2950: floppy drive support?
Loads drivers, gets to "Installing Windows" and then: "setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer" Tried it two times... two ISO disks.I did see "PERC5..." flash by at the...
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