I have recently acquired a Proliant 5000 machine. Unfortunately the SmartStart CD for it has been lost. Does anyone know where I can get one from? -- /* =============================================================== */ I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure...

Hi everyone! I had a deal and I bought a proliant 2500, 2 ppro 200mhz with 480 ram, 2 hot-plug 9.1 HD. My problem is simple to explain, I am very confortable with usual PC, installing NT, formating, partitionning and all that, but with IDE hard drive in desktop machine. It's the first time I'm...

I have a Compaq Prolinea 590 Desktop PC that I'd like to upgrade my Pentium 1 CPU from only 120MHz to whatever the fastest speed this model can support. I have already upgraded the BIOS to the latest version. Can someone please tell me the fastest speed CPU this model can handle? Can someone also...

Hello, all. Has any here tried to use 146.8GB drives in a RA4100? I know 72.8GB is supported, but hp doesn't want to give a straight answer about 146GB. Thanks, Joe Wells

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...

hi there, i have an prolaint 850r with one ppro200 with 256kb cache installed; can i run a ppro200 with 1mb cache in this machine? the machine boots with the new cpu, but shows also only 256kb cache; thanks for help, alex

I go to "My Computer " and am asked to give the previous password and then to change to the new one.... It does not matter. Even if you changed the password to one of your own, ME gives no security whatsoever. Upgrade to Windows 2000 for security. Or you can fool many people by setting the...

I have try to install the card onto the pci-X slot but, cannot upgarde firmware or detect attached HD, win2003 show error that the device have a problem! However hte card can initializ and post its starting message on boot! can anyone advise me is that a hardware failure of the card or it...

I'm thinking of buying one of these. Can we put any U320 drive in this or does it *have* to be a HP OEM drive? Thanks, Joe

Proliant 8500 with Zeon 700MHz/2MB cache x 8 with 2GB RAM with Windows 2000 Advanced Server and SP2. Event viewer is showing the following events with the following info at boot up; source is CPQPHP, Event ID is 19 and the text is as follows. "hp Proliant PCI Hot Plug Hotplug capable slots 7-9...

I have pruchased a new 6402 controller to drive 10 18GB drives in a 4400 disk enclosure. These drives will be morroed and hold data only. The controller will be installed in a ML350 that already has an array controller in it; I beleive a 532. I want to have a C: drive and a D: drive, C for OS and...

If memory serves me correctly, Compaq never used special fibre channel disks in thier RA series of enclosures. They used standard WUS3, U2, u160 and u320 disks (depending on the model, and channel adapter model. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Thanks, LC

Tis been a rough go at getting Redhat linux 9 installed on a Compaq Proliant 2500. Couple of tips for solving installation problems, SMP issues, and X Server video problems. 1. Installation, Memory Issues, and Kernel Panics..... A widely known problem for linux and PPro machines exists due...

Hi! After downloading 'HP Rack and Power Manager v1.0' I've installed the System Management Server on a server in my network. On another server (that has a UPS attached), I've installed the System Agent og Serial Agent. According to the manual that is all it takes to be able to connect...

Thanks to all those that responded to my last post, I now have all four processors up and running now I have a couple of questions! 1. Do you have to use COMPAQ labelled HDD's in the array? 2. Is it possible to fit any generic PCI card into the machine, i.e. PCI IDE Raid card? Many thanks in...

Anyone know where I can find one of these processor's fairly cheap? It is for my son's pc. Thanks Russ

I have a switch sw3322 during the diagnostic test i have this message Descriptor Table Memory -- Address line, random data .............. FAILED. !!! !!! -- FAILED Descriptor Table Memory -- Address line, random data -- !!!

I have a Proliant ML370 with a Smart Array controller. This system is a little over 3 years old and out of warranty. I have 6 Ultra3 SCSI 36GB 10K drives with one configured as a hot spare. One of the drives keeps failing, but if I pull it out and reinsert it it works for a while. COMPAQ is of...

Hi, I got a Systempro/XL with 2 50Mhz 486's and I put in 40Mb of RAM, configured it correctly with the compaq setup and ASTRA sees it all, but when it comes to installing Redhat linux it says that i dont have enought system memory. Im trying to install Redhat 7.1 my server is as...

Hi, i have an old Compaq Professional WS 5100 dual PII-300 with no bios and without f10 partition. The problems it's related to the setup's diskettes: "F10 Setup and Diagnostics for Compaq Workstations / version 1.15 A (8 Oct 98)". When i try to run setup.exe, after booting from the diskettes,...