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TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 3:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stanza

Gone thru the "Drive Order" in the BIOS?

Any other drives in it? or attached? USB etc?

Can't find "Drive Order" unless you meant boot order? (Set to CD/HDD/LAN).
Only a DVD drive on the SATA port.
It's got me stumped - everywhere I look it says it should be fine.

The HDD is in bay 1, where most pages say it needs to be.

May be related - I just noticed the Win2008R2 disc I'm using (off my MSDNAA account) comes up as "Windows XP Professional Setup" on the blue setup screen... WTF?

Stanza · 2nd July 2012, 3:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWedgie

Can't find "Drive Order" unless you meant boot order? (Set to CD/HDD/LAN).
Only a DVD drive on the SATA port.
It's got me stumped - everywhere I look it says it should be fine.

The HDD is in bay 1, where most pages say it needs to be.

May be related - I just noticed the Win2008R2 disc I'm using (off my MSDNAA account) comes up as "Windows XP Professional Setup" on the blue setup screen... WTF?

There is Boot order.....and also a drive order section.

Windows XP setup would be your problem tho... speshly if it's below SP2/SP3.
As it will not know about the SATA controller without Drivers.

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TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 3:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stanza

There is Boot order.....and also a drive order section.

Windows XP setup would be your problem tho... speshly if it's below SP2/SP3.
As it will not know about the SATA controller without Drivers.

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Grr, it's supposedly "en_windows_server_2008_r2_with_sp1_x64_dvd_617601 .iso", burns with a disc ID of "GRMSXFRER_EN_DVD"...

Wondering if I should just put Win7 on there.

All it will be running is sickbeard/sabnzbd/utorrent etc.

TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 3:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blinky

What's it set as in BIOS? AHCI ?

Bingo, set it to IDE and it detects the drive.

Installing now to see whether it actually is 2008 or XP. If it's XP then MSDNAA screwed up something rotten!

Blinky · 2nd July 2012, 3:46 PM

Either set it back to sata instead of ahci or give it the drivers with F6 during install.

Blinky · 2nd July 2012, 3:48 PM

LoL, same time stamp on the solution posts.

TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 3:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blinky

Either set it back to sata instead of ahci or give it the drivers with F6 during install.

No SATA option. IDE/RAID/AHCI.

No floppy drive (seriously, who the fuck still uses a floppy?!) so setup has a conniption looking for drivers.

TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 4:02 PM

Hahaha, oh bugger me.

Halfway through the setup, and it's f-cking XP!

Methinks someone at MSDNAA needs to put the crack pipe down!

Stanza · 2nd July 2012, 4:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWedgie

Hahaha, oh bugger me.

Halfway through the setup, and it's f-cking XP!

Methinks someone at MSDNAA needs to put the crack pipe down!

You can still install XP

Set Bios to IDE mode.

Once XP has installed, install the AMD chipset Drivers etc
Then turn BIOS back to AHCI mode and all will be good.

ala WHS v1

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...php?p=13183786

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TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 4:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stanza

You can still install XP

Set Bios to IDE mode.

Once XP has installed, install the AMD chipset Drivers etc
Then turn BIOS back to AHCI mode and all will be good.

ala WHS v1

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/sh...php?p=13183786

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Cheers, but will redownload 2008R2 and try again.

g_netto · 2nd July 2012, 4:49 PM

Hi TheWedgie,

Just went through the exact same thing. For some reason 2008 R2 SP1 will not pick up the drives. Just install 2008 R2 and then apply patch manually. For some reason the 2008 R2 SP1 does not have or cant detect the storage controllers.

Hope this helps..

TheWedgie · 2nd July 2012, 5:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by g_netto

Hi TheWedgie,

Just went through the exact same thing. For some reason 2008 R2 SP1 will not pick up the drives. Just install 2008 R2 and then apply patch manually. For some reason the 2008 R2 SP1 does not have or cant detect the storage controllers.

Hope this helps..

Will do thanks - it seems the iso from MSDNAA is labelled incorrectly.

Tozmo · 2nd July 2012, 5:41 PM

Just my luck, I installed HD Sentinel today and found that my new-ish uServer has the stock 250gb hd at 11% health. We'll see if HP will allow an RMA on that, but I think I will have to wait for it to completely fail (21 days according to the program)

Anyone else have any experience with RMA on the HD?

picaresqu3 · 3rd July 2012, 10:15 PM

Hi all,

Does anyone have any experience using the PCIe x16 and PCIe x1 slots at the same time on a N36L?

When I picked up my server I went and got a HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL. This little guy sits in the PCIe x16 slot (it uses x8). I do JBOD on the OS drive and RAID5 for my data. It has been working just fine

After that I decided that XBMC is completely awesome and that I want to turn my N36L into a HTPC as well. I picked up a HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 which goes in the PCIe x1 slot.

And now for the problem - once I added the video card to the PCIe x1 slot, the server stopped recognizing my RAID card (the video card does work). I've reseated the RAID card several times, and when I remove the video card the server recognizes it again. I am using the stock 2.61 BIOS that shipped with the server.

@Tozmo - I also use HDD Sentinel and have seen that the stock drive has degraded a bit already. I've had the N36L since early January of this year.

Stanza · 3rd July 2012, 11:32 PM

I use and have used both slots at once no problems.

Either SAS cards and LAN card...or video and LAN ( tho slots reversed to your config.

How much power does the x1 slot video card drag?

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2nd July 2012, 3:46 PM	#6740
Blinky Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: South TAS. Posts: 2,067	Either set it back to sata instead of ahci or give it the drivers with F6 during install.

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Blinky Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: South TAS. Posts: 2,067	LoL, same time stamp on the solution posts.

2nd July 2012, 4:49 PM	#6746
g_netto Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Melbourne Posts: 103	Hi TheWedgie, Just went through the exact same thing. For some reason 2008 R2 SP1 will not pick up the drives. Just install 2008 R2 and then apply patch manually. For some reason the 2008 R2 SP1 does not have or cant detect the storage controllers. Hope this helps..

2nd July 2012, 5:41 PM	#6748
Tozmo Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 8	Just my luck, I installed HD Sentinel today and found that my new-ish uServer has the stock 250gb hd at 11% health. We'll see if HP will allow an RMA on that, but I think I will have to wait for it to completely fail (21 days according to the program) Anyone else have any experience with RMA on the HD?

3rd July 2012, 10:15 PM	#6749
picaresqu3 New Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 2	Hi all, Does anyone have any experience using the PCIe x16 and PCIe x1 slots at the same time on a N36L? When I picked up my server I went and got a HighPoint RocketRAID 2720SGL. This little guy sits in the PCIe x16 slot (it uses x8). I do JBOD on the OS drive and RAID5 for my data. It has been working just fine After that I decided that XBMC is completely awesome and that I want to turn my N36L into a HTPC as well. I picked up a HIS ATI Radeon HD5450 which goes in the PCIe x1 slot. And now for the problem - once I added the video card to the PCIe x1 slot, the server stopped recognizing my RAID card (the video card does work). I've reseated the RAID card several times, and when I remove the video card the server recognizes it again. I am using the stock 2.61 BIOS that shipped with the server. @Tozmo - I also use HDD Sentinel and have seen that the stock drive has degraded a bit already. I've had the N36L since early January of this year.