| Title: | SABLE SYSTEM PUBLIC DISCUSSION |
| Moderator: | COSMIC::PETERSON |
| Created: | Mon Jan 11 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 2614 |
| Total number of notes: | 10244 |
Hi there,
I have a customer situation that has me scratching my head. I have a
customer with a lot of 2100's, but he has one machine that has two
275MHz processors with V4.5 ARC installed.
When he goes to install Windows NT V3.51 from CD-ROM, he is prompted
for the AlphaServer 2100 Hardware Support Disk, in other words, it
appears to be asking for the HAL for this configuration.
Now, I have not gone to see this system, but doesn't this seem an awful
strange thing to be happening? I can't imagine why an EV4 box would be
doing thing; I thought setup would just load the HAL that's on the
CD-ROM.
Any help would be appreciated,
Jim
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| 2572.1 | KEIKI::WHITE | Tue Apr 08 1997 02:38 | 6 | ||
>>>SHow config
Processors identifying themselves properly?
Any errors?
Bill
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| 2572.2 | OTOOA::JPOND | Tue Apr 15 1997 14:29 | 7 | ||
Just an update to this string.
The customer discovered that a corrupted file on the NT CD-ROM (!?) was
the cause of this problem. Apparently, this was a real (ie legal)
CD-ROM but it had been used and abused a few times.
Thanks,
Jim
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| 2572.3 | DECWET::LEESC | Tue Apr 15 1997 16:06 | 12 | ||
If you are running ARC V4.50 or above on your machines, you will see this problem when you attempt to install NT V3.51 or NT V4.0. In ARC V4.50, we change the platform id that was passed to NT. As a result, setup will not recognized these machines. This problem has been fixed for NT V5.0. The change was introduced to make installing NT V4.0 on the AS2x00 and AS2100A machines less painful since the HAL on the CD causes machines with the 120 nsec EEPROM parts to hang and have corrupted NVRAM settings when setup is ran. Scott | |||||