Has anyone successfully installed freeBSD on a proliant 2500? I have tried several releases of the OS with the same result. Thinks appear to work correctly until it displays /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 and then the install hangs. The sysinstall application is supposed to launch at...

Anyone know a source for one or more Proliant 6400R I/O fans (I believe it's part number 101933-001 based on an ebay search) in the Los Angeles area? I had a power surge of some sort this afternoon and it seems to have taken out one of my fans of all things and reset a few other assorted clocks in...

Hello all, Awhile back the company I work for upgraded a customers servers and we inherited their old Compaq Proliant 1850R's with PII. What I did was cannibalize one to add to another and create a sort of sandbox for playing with (MCSE type stuff). The problem I am having is that I can not get...

Has anyone seen before cases where the network ports on a DL380 G2, G3, or G4 get swapped? I have a G4 where port 1 is enabled in BIOS and port 2 is disabled. You boot the computer, load Windows, and only port #2 on the back of the computer works. Also in Windows 2003, I see TWO adapters...

Thought I'd try here as I'm getting no help in Ubuntuforum.org... I have a Proliant 5500 which is currently running three Xeon 550MHz processors, I've installed Ubuntu Server 7.04 and it has auto detected my setup and installed the generic i686 kernel (2.6.20-16 #2 SMP) which as the name suggests...

Greetings: I would like to find a DL360 G2 (or newer) cheap with reasonable shipping costs (unlike on eBay); it need not have an HD or much RAM but should have a CPU (and embedded 1000BaseT). A working mainboard would be another option (with proprietary cables if you have 'em). Regards,

I have a Compaq Proliant 1850R. I'm running the System Configuration Utility (SCU) from the 4 diskette set. When I select Drive Array Configuration from the System Configuration menu it ask for the 'Drive Array Configuration' diskette. Where do i get this diskette? I cannot locate this on Compaq's...

Hi All, I am trying to repair a Compaq Armada 7400 I have been given, unfortunately I don't have an AC Adaptor for this machine - Does anyone please have the pin out details for the PSU connector. I believe that one pin is ground two others are actual DC supply voltages and the 4th pin is a logic...

I have a few DL580 G1s with the same problem and looking at the HP help forums others are having the same issue but no-one seems to be able to answer it there. Basically the servers seem like they are booting - they power up and the drives start to spin as the Smartarray detects them etc but...

Is there any conversion kit that will convert a DL380 G4 from SCSI to SAS? -- Will

I have 2 Proliant 2500's with dual PPro 200's and Smart Arrays. I'm lookint to install a linux distro on them and will be using several GUI applications. The on-board video is definitely not up to the challenge based on my initial testing. Does the Proliant 2500 support an add in PCI video card?...

LC -- (or anyone else that knows).. Can I used the above autoloader w/o problems on a Proliant 6400 w/o any issues? Just curious since I've got someone locally selling one for $200 that was just taken out of service and I believe it's in working order (but am checking that fact).. Also, if you...

Hi all.. I finally obtained (for free no less) a 19" (slightly higher than waist high) rack mount cabinet from someone that left at the curb over the weekend (for vultures like me) and would like to put my Proliant into it at some point.. My machine currently has the internal rails (the side that...

The quickspecs for the MSA50 SAS JBOD enclosure say the rack rail option is 3R-A5281-AA. Does this go by alternate spare or option or assembly numbers? I don't find the 3R part number version on any of the price comparison services. -- Will

Hello there, Trying to reinstall the old mailsserver from my work, it's a Compaq ML350 G2 Rackmount. When I use the firmware Maintenance 7.50 CD to do a complete firmware update, I'm getting a kernel panic while the disc is beeing read. This is the error; Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs...

I installed the latest Proliant Service Pack (PSP) for Windows 2003, and after a reboot my Network Connections folder is empty. The system gadgets area now links an HP network icon to the HP Network Configuration application. How do I configure TCP/IP settings here? How do I get access to the...

To the best of my knowledge, there is no USB hearders on that server. There is an easy way to check without a risk to your uptime: look at the back of the server. You should be able to make due with removing the USB support from the kernel and recompiling. Yes, you should have a 3200 or better,...

My Proliant ML 370 Gen 1 has crashed and given me the error 101 ROM IO Error when I reboot. Where do I look for the problem? It has a Compaq 431 RAID controller with 5x9.1 drives.in a RAID 5 configuration. I have green lights on the drives. I do have the onboard chip I can use to replace the 431...

LC, or a resident 6400 expert, I was going to scrap that 6400 (some of that Chicago stuff), but after looking at it I didn't have the heart. It had 4 Gig ram, 4 550 Xeon cpu's, not sure if 1 or 2 meg cache each, 2 raid cards. After doing some reading I noticed an article saying the 6400 could be...

Greetings: We recently acquired a PL3000 (PII version with the processor boards of the same form factor as in the PL5000) which does the "ten flash noboot" on the power supply (ten green and one amber flashes on the top led). We have two known-good power supplies but try only one at a time. We...