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It turns out the brand of blank CD I used to create SmartStart was faulty. By suggestion on another thread here I used ImagBurn to verify the CD I created against the original SmartStart.ISO and there were errors. Funny becuase my home PC would try to boot from the SS CD, but my DL380 is to...

Elmer, thanks for the solution! I used ImagBurn to do a verify between the SmartStart.ISO and the CD I created on my desktop PC. There were errors. It turns out it was the GQ brand blank CD's I was using (GQ is supposed to stand for great quality, what a laugh). I used my same CD drive with...

I suppose I could start a new thread - but it looks like elmer and I are having the same issue. I now have a floppy drive on my desktop and have created a system erase floppy. My dl380 will boot from floppy and run the system erase utility. It STILL does not boot from any Smartstart CD nor...

I don't have a floppy drive in neither my desktop nor my laptop. My desktop doesn't have bay for a flopply drive. I might have to go over to a friends house and use his desktop to create a bootable floppy. I went by my local computer superstore (Fry's) and they had USB floppy devices for the...

Honestly it just says "Integrated Smart Array Controller V1.42 - Initializing" Then once initialized it says "1 - Logical Drives". F6 gets me the screen "Option ROM Configuration for Arrays version 1.0 copyright Compaq 1999". It just displays the two disks and not much more. I am able to get...

Hi Burt -- unfortunatly I messed with and reset the disk partitions which wiped clean the W2003 that was already there. I was confident I would be able install a fresh OS (before I read this thread and got an idea of what a challenge I faced!) Wish I would have known about the PW crack before...

The RAID controller is: Integrated Smart Array Controller Version 1.42 -- that's what it says it's initializing at startup, and it gives no prompts, should I try F6?

Try this thread Elmer: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1345698&page=1 I am having the same problems -- please let me know if you find an easier solution than the one in the above thread.

hughejars, It looks like I'm going to have to buy a floppy drive to get Server 2003 installed on my dl380 G1? You say "Prepare a System Erase Floppy, Boot the system with the floppy in". I bought this thing used on Craig's list for $60 and now I feel I have overpaid. It did already have...