Boot On IDE (Poweredge 830)

Try using the drivers for windows 2000, that should fix your reboot failure.

I don't think so because it say that it don't find any hard drive. However I can setup the beginnig of windows XP.

It's really strange ? Could give me more information about that plz ? Should I setup drivers for IDE hard drive ?!

That a lot ?

 

 

You have to load the drivers during the install, I do not deal with XP, it's not a O/S that I support on servers, perhaps some of the community can assist you. The answer may already be in the forums, try the search feature.

 

The PowerEdge 830 supports many of the popular standards-based operating systems available today.

• Windows 2000 Server, Standard edition, (Service Pack 4)
• Windows 2003 standard edition
• Windows 2003 Small Business Server (SBS)
• Windows 2003 for 64 bits extend system standard edition
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ES version 3
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ES version 4 IA32
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) ES version 4 for EM64T
• Novell Netware version 6.5 Pack 3 (Not factory installed)

 

It seems that this problem is too hard for us.

I believed it's a forum to change information.

Too bad for me.

Bye

Sorry to have to say that, but I'm not so noob.

All operating system even 2000 or 2003 doesn't setup on poweredge 830.

If it's really a drive problem, where can I find it ?

Here ?

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/index.aspx?c=fr&l=fr&s=gen

There's nothing.

For me, It's not a driver problem. Beside PE830 don't have a floppy driver. (I can add it)

I think, I need to update bios in view to see IDE  DRIVE

Thx a lot for your help.

 

Ps : I looking a same problem like me in this forum and I don't find anything. Trust me.

 

Hi fouldou,

 I did not call you a new person or noob, it's just that you are coming up against something that the Dell engineers spent some time trying to make impossible.

 On some of the other servers, I've seen postings where they were able to get the BIOS to correctly identify the IDE drives by disconnecting the SATA or SCSI drives, install the IDE, THEN they pulled out the CMOS battery and drained the CMOS power for 3-4 minutes to make sure all the settings were removed. When they reinstalled the battery and booted the F/W sees the IDE drives and places them into the boot sequence.

 I've no idea if this will work or not.

 

Gary,

No go on the boot sequence. Jumped the NV-RAM and booted the box. During POST I got a seek error for the floppy but the is none attached....no IDE devices listed in POST. The BIOS defaulted to floppy installed, changed it to Not Installed. Hard Drive listed but secondary drive (CD) was set to OFF, changed to Auto. SATA Port 0 listed Unknown Device (none attached), changed to OFF. IDE CD-ROM and Embedded MBA listed in Boot Sequences and both were checked off....No HD listed. Unchecked Embedded MBA.

Hard-Disk Drive Sequence

1. System BIOS boot devices

2. Adapters with no ID support

Saved BIOS settings and bounced the server. Checked BIOS after POST but still no IDE HD in Boot Sequence listed.

Well I guess we can do the following: place your boot.ini, NTdetect, and ntloader, Or (LILO or GRUB for linux) on the SATA drive and have it load the OS off of the IDE drive. Microsoft has articles on how to configure the multi statement in the boot.ini file to direct the loader to a different controller or drive.

Not an option Gary....I will NOT be using an SATA drive on this server. It's either stupid of stupid Dell to make a server that can not recognize an IDE drive as a boot device....or more liekly....there is a problem with the firmware on these servers.

Guess I'll have to log a call to Tech Support for them to fix this issue or replace the server.