Device issues with ancient Power Edge 2200

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@FatalException0E wrote:

I've got an old PE 2200 dual-PentII. I'm trying to install an IDE controller in it, and I've tried various cards with similar problems. The embedded SCSI controller works fine, but it seems that any PCI or ISA card that has a BIOS on it will not work on the system. It's running NT4 Server, and the service tag is DDYYN.

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Well I have to disagree on that point.

I have used Promise Ultra 66/100/133 ide cards and they work fine.

There IS a problem that you can no longer post if you also have
an old PERC card aka the AMI Megaraid Enterprise 1200 (428) card inside.

You also will have problems with Bus master slots or not and PCI 2.2 cards
wont work at all.

Older PCI 1.1 and the proper slot and you are fine.

You cannot boot from the CDROM once you put the Promise card inside due to a bios conflict.
However you can make a WIN9X startup disk and then format a FAT16 2 gig partition.

Then XCOPY the Entire NT CD onto the Hard drive.

Then boot the WIN9X Dos and goto C:\I386 and type WINNT /S:C:\I386 /T:C:\ /B
to start the install of NT.

When you get the black and white screen that says detecting devices you must
hit F6 and install the Promise IDE drivers for NT from Floppy or you will have
no drives found blue screen stick a fork in you are done.

I know this works. I did it. and it worked fine.

The other issue with NT/2000/2003 server is the Video and the ports.
You must set LPT1 to be DISABLED or to 378 IRQ7 LPT1 only.

Any other setting will cause the screen to go black and then hang.
Its a hardware conflict that is not reconcileable.

Same deal goes for USB 2.0 cards. The machine will not see them with
the OLD Perc card installed.

Message Edited by FatalException0E on 06-26-2005 09:02 PM