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Dale

Dale

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Hi all,

Got an issue here that is driving me flippin mad!! I swear, if the cat walks near by it had better start running!!!

I've got a 2U server here, and I’m trying to install Windows 2003 Server. I've got an issue that on the initial GUI part of the installation the process stops on 34 minutes remaining.

I've looked at this MS article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/828267

...I've restarted the installation about 8 times so far with no avail.

If anyone here is a bit of a guru when it comes to Server tech could you take a look at these logs I've retrieved and try and help me understand which piece of hardware is failing?

http://www.zen87038.zen.co.uk/setupact.log
http://www.zen87038.zen.co.uk/setupapi.log
http://www.zen87038.zen.co.uk/setuplog.txt

These are the only logs I am able to find (as per Microsoft article)

Thanks so much for any help or advice...
 
Hi there,

Basically this is the process that I have worked through:

Removed and recreated the RAID array.
Booted the machine off the CD, ran through the install procedure - all fine, no errors.

Machine gets to 34 min and halts.

I power off and on again and let the GUI run again, but this time I hit SHIFT-F10 for the CMD prompt and copy the required log files to disk.

So it hung, and I then re-booted before I copied the logs.

Prior to all this however I had let the machine run the GUI about 8 ish times (I lost count) - but I decided to re-format and start the install again so I didn't have messed up logs.

I did however take a copy of these logs as well which are here:

http://www.zen87038.zen.co.uk/setupact1.log
http://www.zen87038.zen.co.uk/setupapi1.log


Thanks for your help dude
 
Thanks guys, so far I haven't even made it to the point that it asks for regional settings. The CD is an original Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 CD - i.e. no copies going on here (and it’s English)

I'll have an attempt at downloading another copy of Server 2003 from the MS Subscriber site and see if that helps at all.

Many thanks identifying the issues....
 
Funny you should say that, yes I can test the memory with a boot CD I have and have just finished a four hour stint. No errors yet...

Might leave it overnight as well.
 
I've just removed the RAID controller and it seems to be booting. Which whilst is comforting that it works its also really annoying as I would have loved to have the RAID5 working for piece of mind as its going to be the Exchange Server.

I want to thank everyone for their input - its been stressing me out for a day and a half now :)

I don't know a great deal about RAID, is it going to be possible for me to install the system as it is now, then re-install the RAID controller once Windows is up and running and make it into a RAID system?

(ideally I was looking at disks 1 and 2 in a RAID 0 for speed of OS and disks 3, 4 and 5 in RAID 5 for redundancy - but as I said, I don't know much about RAID!) :o :confused:
 
Thats the frustrating thing, the controller is an Intel one, but there are no model codes etc on it, so I can't search for updated drivers etc.

The Intel website has downloads for 2 different RAID controllers for Server 2003, I have tried both with no luck getting past 34min on setup as of yet....

I'll keep plugging :)
 
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