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Compaq DL380 - no smartstart
FYI: The CD drives in our DL380s appear to be very sensitive to the type of disc you burn the image to, perhaps because of their age and accumulated dust!! In the end, the easiest solution was for us to install a usb PCI card and plug in an external CD drive. I'll clean the original drive when I... -
Compaq DL380 - no smartstart
FINAL UPDATE: All now resolved. In case it helps anyone else, I'll try to condense over 12 hours into a few lines. 1) The reboot turned out to be a windows setup problem. It dawned on me that as the machine says it is starting windows (at T-13 mins) it is checking the hardware as a background... -
Compaq DL380 - no smartstart
UPDATE 2: Two steps forward, one backward. Using the maintenance dip switch I have reset the config to allow me to boot from cd. The SmartStart disk I have isn't bootable (although it will boot another machine), so I tried a Windows Server 2003 disk and, knock me down with a feather, it... -
Compaq DL380 - no smartstart
UPDATE: Since the original post I've located disks for SmartStart 5.50.0 and made a set of SCU floppies. The same problem remains, the 380 won't boot from CD or floppy. Just noticed that the CD light is flashing, so have reseated everything inside the case, but no change. Please help or the... -
Compaq DL380 - no smartstart
We've just been given a compaq DL380 dual P3-933 with a SmartArray 5300 controller. On boot it goes through the post, checks the processors and smartarray then, when I'd usually see the F10 option, it says non-system disk or disk error. We've tried booting from floppy and cd, but no luck there...
