Sorry, I have no idea how to do that. You might look into getting a 32-bit PCI graphics card if you want more than the server-grade built-in card.
thanks again ... yes, E4 stepping, definitely! I am tempting fate, but system has been up for 1.5 days since the changes I mentioned above ... if it's still up this evening, seems fingers should be pointed at incorrectly sensed memory frequency; the other lock up issues tracked in this thread appear to be related to memory freqs, as you have pointed out. Will also run memtest, of course, in case one or more of the sticks are playing up.
kawal - Nice! FWIW I use Fedora 14 too...for open-embedded development. BTW, I don't want to kill your proud uptime, but do you remember if you have the PowerNow enabled in the BIOS? I'm curious if the HDAMA-I v1.23 BIOS's PowerNow option supports the ACPI PSS objects, or just the old PSB tables. I guess in order to find out, you'd have to boot something old like RHEL/CentOS 5 to see if the CPU scaling works.
Hi TQG. I see some positive progress here My machine has once been up for almost a month, then I rebooted it, then it crashed a couple of times and did so today (after being up for a week or so)... The one thing is that today it managed to leave a memory dump (very unusual, it usually leaves no clue after rebooting) for me so that I can analyse it. Event viewer tells me: Do you know how to analyse the MEMORY.DMP file? I could upload it for you but it's over 600MB (compression needed definitely ). The minidump file is 245KB... Thanks. EDIT: I got some more info about it. I wouldn't be suprised if it was network card's fault... Sometimes the server crashes when I connect a computer to the network...
MSE as an antivirus... Windows Firewall - many people say it's because of zone alarm... I never used it! It's Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise.
I just realised I called you TQG in the other post, sorry. So, TQ I have SP1 installed and the drivers are up to date as far as I remember. I will try to reinstall them some day... tcpip.sys is at version 6.1.7601.17514 fwpkclnt.sys is at the same version as tcpip.sys I had Symantec Endpoint protection installed ages ago, it's gone now... Some time in the past I installed some application that installed a driver that caused the server to completely fail (bluescreens, all network services failed, ip configuration and network card configuration was gone from control panel). After careful and lengthly registry work (couple of hours) I got everything up and running back (removed references to fault driver and its 'miniport'). The server however tends to crash when logging on into Safe Mode... weird. There is not much I can do now. I'd have done a backup before installing that crap (well some proxy server). I might investigate these safe mode reboots. I dont think it ever left any dump files. It just rebooted!
No worries, saving everyone an extra keystroke. That's really weird that the system would crash when going into Safe Mode. Is it possible that something on your server is overheating?
tqh, First off you ROCK!!! I bought a rackable server about 2 weeks ago with a hdama rev g motherboard was getting BSOD flashed your bios 2.18b and all was great! It came with a 3ware raid card found drivers and installed sbs2011 with raid 3 no problem took less then 30min to get up and running and has been running like a champ since! Now, I decided to buy 3 more...the first one came in on friday...it's a rioworks rev g board but this has integrated sil3114 card, all is fine, flashed the bios 2.18b with sil3114 sataraid 5.4.0.3 support but when i try to install windows 7 all the drivers come back unsigned..ahhh kinda frustrating...lol...I've heard it toss about around here about changing the .inf file in the driver to bypass the integrity check, but I have not found a definitive answer, if anyone has had this problem or is experiencing it... could I get some help please!! have a good one!!
yea I have i've tried both the x86 and the x64...the only thing I could think is that I'm using the wrong bios, but even still, I see everything fine and all seems good, my only problem is when I click "load drivers" when I use yours (which worked great on my first server) shows up fine but when it tries to load it kicks back the error "...to continue installation click the load driver option and load signed 32bit and 64 bit drivers..." I kinda wish I had my 3ware pci card on this one that driver I have and works perfectly...lol...thanks for the help if you can think of anything else all help is greatly appreciated!!
tgh, I've tried your signed drivers but I did have a question you stated "You can force the driver to be used for the hardware" how would or can I force your signed drivers on my hardware and "x64 needs to disable driver signing" can I disable digital signing? if so thats all I believe I need to go and I'd be golden...thanks for putting up with and helping, helpless people like me...you ROCK!!!
anacomm - TO be honest, I don't know exactly since I don't have an actual HDAMA board...I have the workstation equivalent HDAMB board that has a different SATA chip on it. I think others who have "forced" the drivers to install, had their main hard drive as an IDE drive. Also if you don't have a need for the SATA-RAID, you can also flash one of the SATA-LINK (i.e. non-RAID) firmwares. Windows should have the driver for it, or you should be able to use the official Silicon Image drivers. Of course, I'm only going by what users have reported... TQ
Might be, I'm not sure though because it is running speedfan and it usually increases the fans to the max when it's over expected temperatures... It crashed again the other day less than five minutes after switching my laptop to ethernet from WiFi. I'm actually thinking it happens because the server sends data to a computer that is unavaiable and it crashes (that seems to be a bit impossible though since IP has nothing to do with hardware layer unless the driver is failing). This machine incorporates a random error generator, lets not forget about that @anacom You can run your os from both SATA and IDE but if you want sata you will need to disable driver signature checking. Start CMD as admin and type: bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS (yes, DDisable not Disable) bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON
Mateuszd, Thanks for the tip, I tried it and it didn't work, (it worked on a pc with the os already installed) see on the server I can't even see my drives so I press control f10 (i believe) and that pull up a command prompt but without having an os installed I can't do too much with the boot settings. oh well I suppose I'll have to flash the sata-link drivers. Cool thanks to everyone for your help!!!
Before you go flashing the SATA-LINK BIOS, did you create your RAID array by going into the Silicon Image BIOS and creating the array? Otherwise the controller won't enumerate anything to the OS.