Setup fails while registering components

[Guest]

Dell 6300/4xXeon 500/2GB Memory/AMI Enterprise 1400 RAID (0-0 RAID 1 17GB 0-1
RAID5 69GB)/Intel 10/100 NIC/No other cards installed.

This ha really got me by the butt! No matter what I try to install (W2K
Server/W2K3 server) the installation fails at the same point. No blue screen,
no error message. The install runs along fine until the final stages o the
graphical portion of the install and then just r-goots and tries to restrt
the install. I have even let it try again and the same happens again.

It feels like a hardware problem, but i cannot be certain. I suspect
hardware or configuration since I have tried two different version of Windows
Server (2000/2003/2003R2) with the same results. I have reset all the memory
in the machine, rebuilt the SCSI RAID arrays, made certain that all the
firmware (machine and RAID card are up to date. Substituted another RAID
card, limited the memory available to setup. I substituted Xeon terminator
cards for two of the processors.

Setup.log reveals nothing since by the time I can look at it after a reboot
all it shows is that the install was restarted. I have also tried to let
Windows Setup tr to repair the failed install with no joy.

I do not know exactly what hardware is involved when setup is registering
components but suspect memory, and disk.components.

 

[John John]

Did you do the F6 thing at the begining of the Setup routine and feed it
the RAID drivers on a floppy diskette?

John

 

[Guest]

Yes, am using latest LSI drivers specific to Windows 2000

 

[Dave Patrick]

I would agree. May be some bad RAM

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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[Guest]

Back in the day when multi-processor support was evolving to 1.4 some
computers (BIOS) and multi-processor support in Windows were not always in
total sync. In fact; if you look back far enough in Tech-Net you will see
that Xerox Corporation reported this problem to Microsoft and at that time
Compaq. One of our guys (Xerox) killed himself identifying the problem.

The solution was to remove two or sometimes three of the processors, perform
the install and replace the processors. I was in the process of doing that
when I posted the first message. As stated there in I had already tried
removing two of the processors which did not work.

Finally I resorted to removing three of the processors....the install of W2K
and W2K3 server went without a hitch. When using this work-around, going from
multiple processors to one for the install is that sometimes the Windows
install does not recognize that the machine is multi-processor capable. The
uni-processor kernel is installed setup. If this happens then you must force
the use on the multi-processor kernel.

Best Regards
TJ Holcomb
Xerox Corporation