WinNT40 on xSeries 226

not know this particular hw, but first thing ill try be to use <F6> key
trick

pressing <F6> during the first NT setup screen (with message like "setup is
inspecting your hardware...") will disable autodetection and autoloading of
standard drivers. You should to specify and load disk and CD drivers
manually during next step to continue installation, however. There is no
immediate reaction of NT setup to <F6> key so press it a few times
repeatedly.

If this not help, try to specify more details about setup phase your problem
appears in. At least tell us what is the last message you saw on screen
before computer hangs and if it is always during exactly the same step of
setup.

Servers often contain proprietary technology that needs proprietary drivers.
And they are supplied with proprietary installation CDs. To install OS you
should to use this CD instead of retail OS (proprietary
Installation/Recovery CD usually contain OS setup image or asks for retail
OS CD during install). It is however possible to create special installation
script yourself, providing all proprietary drivers needed. But it is not
easy for beginners.

> I ave problems with installation WinNT40 on xSeries226 IBM server
> .... After booting with WinNT40 CD everything goes fine (loading
> drivers) but after a wile I got verical lines on my screen and nothing
> goes on after that....

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> I ave problems with installation WinNT40 on xSeries226 IBM server
> .... After booting with WinNT40 CD everything goes fine (loading
> drivers) but after a wile I got verical lines on my screen and nothing
> goes on after that....

I have exactly the same result attempting to install Windows NT4 Server
on an xSeries 206 - with 2 x 80 Gb SATA drives in a Raid 1
configuration. The screen corruption and 'hang' appears to be just
after the CD Rom drivers are installed. I have tried the F6 and
selected the normal IDE CD driver but am not yet able to source the
SATA Raid drivers. IBM's pdf documentation states that the NT 4.0
floppy disk image file is aac-winnt.img but this is not on the
ServeRaid 7e Support CD and cannot be found on a search of the IBM
Support site.
I have tried creating a disk from the winhrsata.img file but this gives
an error message when installed. Not too surprising as this is the
driver disk for Windows 2000 and 2002 Servers.

Have you managed to correct yours yet ??

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> I ave problems with installation WinNT40 on xSeries226 IBM server
> .... After booting with WinNT40 CD everything goes fine (loading
> drivers) but after a wile I got verical lines on my screen and nothing
> goes on after that....

I have exactly the same result attempting to install Windows NT4 Server
on an xSeries 206 - with 2 x 80 Gb SATA drives in a Raid 1
configuration. The screen corruption and 'hang' appears to be just
after the CD Rom drivers are installed. I have tried the F6 and
selected the normal IDE CD driver but am not yet able to source the
SATA Raid drivers. IBM's pdf documentation states that the NT 4.0
floppy disk image file is aac-winnt.img but this is not on the
ServeRaid 7e Support CD and cannot be found on a search of the IBM
Support site.
I have tried creating a disk from the winhrsata.img file but this gives
an error message when installed. Not too surprising as this is the
driver disk for Windows 2000 and 2002 Servers.

Have you managed to correct yours yet ??

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Thomas Aw - 03 Feb 2006 16:35 GMT

Hi guys,

I have good news for both of you. The ultimate requirement is to have SP6a
installed.

I have an x206 SCSI model and encountered exactly the same problem as you
guys: after NT setup loaded "CD-ROM File System" it is supposed to switch to
a 50-line screen showing the build number and amount of memory but instead it
displays graphical characters in verticle lines.

I am lucky that I have a PCI Adaptec U320 SCSI controller that uses the same
NT driver as the built-in SCSI controller. I took the SCSI HDD and the
controller, installed on a PC, ran NT setup, applied SP6a. I then moved the
HDD back to the x206 and it booted up successfully.

Initially, without applying SP (ie. SP1), I got the same display when I
bootup the HDD in the x206. I then applied SP4 (back in the PC), this time it
booted up without the graphical characters but it rebooted itself at the same
point. Finally I applied SP6a and it booted successfully.

I am now trying to install the network card driver , the machine froze
earlier when I was adding network adapter in network property page.

One limitation for my system now is that I can't implement hardware RAID1
using the built-in SCSI RAID function any more (because my PCI SCSI card does
not have that function).

I do not know how you can do the same with your SATA disk, but I wish you
luck.

Thomas Aw

> > I ave problems with installation WinNT40 on xSeries226 IBM server
> > .... After booting with WinNT40 CD everything goes fine (loading
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> Have you managed to correct yours yet ??

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