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S5520HC + SROMBSASMR + AXXRSBBU8 Battery Help.

webadmin@intel.com — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:05:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm having issues with the above configuration - it can't see the battery.

The S5520HC has the latest package through efi (63;61;33;112).

Initially the raid rom did not show. I powered off the system, unplugged the battery, powered on - all good.

I then tried the battery again. The rom loads but does not see the battery. I left it for an hour so that I can rule out a flat battery.

Still no good.

I've tried another battery & it's still not seen. Both batteries had a flashing red led on the back.

I've even flashed the SROMBSASMR with firmware 11.0.1-0051.

I've uesd AXXRSBBU3 batteries in the past with no issue. These are now discontinued...

I'm connecting the battery to the raid with the supplied 20pin cable. Pin 1 was marked with texta and I can see I haven't plugged anything incorrectly.

Any ideas?

Rob

Re: S3420GPLC & 3TB GPT Server 2008 R2 Sp1 install help.

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:17:20 GMT

Thanks but I got round the issue by having a 200GB Virtual drive as mbr & Remainder as GPT which all worked.

There's plenty of reference to UEFI but non to booting GPT.

Client is happy...

S3420GPLC & 3TB GPT Server 2008 R2 Sp1 install help.

webadmin@intel.com — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:42:10 GMT

Hi. I'm trying to install Server 2008 R2 SP1 onto a 3TB Mirror. I understand I need to go through efi & set the drive as GPT.

I'm getting an error "Windows cannot install to this disk. The computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers bios menu".

Here's my specs:

Intel S3420GPLC BIOS 50, BMC 1.24, FRUSDR 20

LSI 9260-4iSGL SAS Raid controller fw: 12.12.0-0090 (latest, supports uefi, upgraded from adaptec 6405 which didn't)

2x 3TB SAS ES in Mirror ST33000650SS fw: 0004

Server 2008 R2 SP1

Being that the OS has to be on a 3TB drive, I’ve tried installing Server through EFI:

Boot to EFI shell

Shell> Fs0:

fs0:> \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI

I've also tried implementing this hotfix 975535:

Consider the following scenario:

You install Windows Server 2008 R2 on a computer that uses Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).
During the installation process, you select a disk that has the GUID partition table (GPT) partition style on which to install Windows Server 2008 R2.

In this scenario, you receive the following error message:

This Computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.

The hotfix has not made any difference!

Does the S3420GPLC even support booting a GPT drive? Can't find any info...

Sorry if I'm missing something as this is the 1st time I'm trying an EFI install...

Thanks,

Robert

Re: Is the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR compatible with SVR 2008 R2 SP1?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:33:49 GMT

Yes, found out to be nic related.

Doc_SilverCreek posted the following which worked for me:

"You may be hitting the nic driver issue.

Try connecting both NIC's together with a network cable and the instlation should complete.

When done, update the network driver before removing the cable."

Thanks for you help too.

Re: Are the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR compatible with Svr 2008 R2 with SP1?

webadmin@intel.com — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:35:48 GMT

Fantastic! That worked!

Installed the raid card & drives, had both nics connected to our lan and it completed the install!

This is the 1st time I've had this issue. I'll make notes on this.

Thankyou very much m8!

Re: Are the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR compatible with Svr 2008 R2 with SP1?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 22:33:04 GMT

"Are you hitting F8 during install, and giving it a storage driver?"

Originally both Servers had a Adaptec 3405 Raid Controller with raid mirror.

Normally you don't need to load the driver as MS provides a basic version that works.

I did try loading the adaptec driver as well.

The 3405 has the latest bios & I used the latest driver.

Like I've said, I've stripped these and only have 1 hdd on the onboard sata controller which is set to ide mode by default.

There's no raid so why would I need a driver?

What do you mean by "F8"? XP was "F6" to load a driver from fdd but with the modern OS you can just load the drivers from usb through disk manager...

Is the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR compatible with SVR 2008 R2 SP1?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:37:25 GMT

I've posted this already but can;t find it:

I'm trying to install Server 2008 R2 with SP1 onto the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR but have been unsuccessfull.

On each attemp I get to "Setup will continue after restarting your computer". It never restarts but just sits there...

Have made both servers barebone. 1xE5620, 1x4GBRegEcc, 1xhdd & 1xoptical.

Latest Package through efi: S5520HC_S5500HCV_S5520SC_55_55_30_112.

Have even tried older packages...

Server 2008 SP2 installs fine on both servers.

I don't have a copy of R2 without SP1.

Can anyone help me with this?

Thanks,

Robert

Are the S5500HCVR & S5520HCR compatible with Svr 2008 R2 with SP1?

webadmin@intel.com — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:30:14 GMT

Hi. I'm trying to install Server 2008 R2 with SP1 on the above mentioned boards and can't complete the install.

I've tried both systems barebone. 1xE5620, 1x4GB, 1xHHD & optical.

On every install I get to "Setup will continue after restarting your computer".

It just stops there and never moves on...

I don't have a copy of R2 without the SP1.

Server 2008 SP2 installs fine.

Is there some type of compatability issue??

I've had both updated to package S5520HC_S5500HCV_S5520SC_55_55_30_112.

I've tried the package below this as well with the same result..

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Rob