server 2003 install
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Name: Scott Redmond
Date: July 16, 2006 at 08:31:39 Pacific
Subject: server 2003 installOS: win server 2003 entCPU/Ram: p4 3.0ghzModel/Manufacturer: custom |
Comment: Okay I was cursed with installing server 2003 on a custon built server running a Intel entry level server board SE7221BA1-E. I have the disks and have located the sata raid drivers and copied them to a floppy. When I run server 2003 install I press f6 then slect the floppy I copied the driver files too and i get this error message: FILE\WINDOWS\MEGAIDE.SYS CAUSED AN UNEXPECTED ERROR (18) AT LINE 2187 IN D:\SRV03RTM\BASE\BOOT\SETUP\OEMDISK.C. After doing some research I found that the bios software on this board is outdated so this may have something to do with the embedded raid controllers software. So I downloaded the new bios update. But the problem is that I have to extract the bios update files to bootable media run the bios setup utility. The bios update is too big to fit on a floppy and I tried making a bootable CD and putting the files on that but it did not work. So then I tried putting the files on a usb drive and booting to that but it says ntldr is missing. So do you think it's the bios or do you think something else is wrong.
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Response Number 1
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Name: wanderer
Date: July 16, 2006 at 11:02:37 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Did you read the update instructions? Doubt, if too large to fit, it belongs on one floppy. Some updates have multiple floppies which may be the case here. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.
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Name: Curt R
Date: July 16, 2006 at 11:17:15 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You could put the drivers on CD and put it in the drive. Boot with a bootdisk (that will load the CD-ROM drivers - a windows 98 SE bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com will do the trick) and run the BIOS update from the DOS prompt pointing at the CD-ROM for the drivers. I would update the RAID BIOS at the same time.
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Response Number 3
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Reply: (edit)I will try bootdisk.com The instructions for the update just said extract files to bootable media and it does not give an option for multiple diskettes.
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Response Number 4
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Reply: (edit)Okay, I updated the bios but now I nee dthe latest sata drivers so I can load server 2003 but I cannot find them on the intel site. The product is Intel entry level server board SE7221BA1-E
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