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Comment. You're not working with a "mainstream" configuration. Do you know of anyone else who has put Windows XP Professional (SP2?) onto your server motherboard? The only Windows XP operating system reference I saw for your motherboard said "Windows XP Professional (SP1 only)"; but it was dated August 2005 I believe.
2.
Wont see the drive.
I got my gaming pc up an runing again but it wont see the drive the first time I booted. So since I changed the MB I thought about just formating them. Thing is these are "MAXTOR DRIVES" so I went to use Maxblast since that how I do mostly all my drives. Also, since most are maxtor. It came up saing that it couldnt find any ATA drives or any at all, once I got in. But it seen that I had one that wasnt being used as my boot drive an not part of the system. So I dont now since this is usually how I setup my drives.
You said you weren't able to see the drive (from Maxblast). I would remove all hard drives except the one you want to build Windows XP Professional on. Then I would configure the system and BIOS for a single hard drive configuration. If SATA, I would check the Maxtor 320 GB drive to see if there are jumpers to downgrade it to 1.5 GB/s throughput (to match motherboard capability). If PATA, I would make sure I got the "jumpers" correct (master/slave/single?). Then I would crawl through the BIOS paying particular attention to the IDE/SATA configuration options.
If single SATA drive, I believe you want to disable "SATA RAID", and somehow get it configured on "first" channel (assuming that's where BIOS wants to boot from).
Maybe check "MaxBlast" to see if it can access SATA drive.
Second option would be to format the hard drive during the installation of Windows XP Professional.
Basically I would play with the BIOS settings until either MaxBlast or Windows XP CD can access the hard drive.
I didn't see your hard drive listed as one that's compatible with the motherboard; also
SATA drives appear to be non-functioning3.
Motherboard - Intel® Entry Server Board SE7210TP1-E
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Support o
Technical Product Specification o
Users Guide o
Tested Hardware and Operating System List, Revision 1.354.
BIOS.
o What version, date, and ID?
o Do you have latest BIOS?
o Have you disabled "SATA RAID"?
5.
Processor. Socket 478 Pent 4 2.8 GHZ. Which one? System Bus (400/533 MHz, 533 MHz, or 800 MHz)? L2 Cache Size (512 KB or 1 MB)?
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Hard Drive. Unable to find your hard disk
Maxtor DiamondMAX 21 using "Maxtor" model number "9QF8FY6D". Only see them with Seagate model numbers:
o STM3320620AS (SATA)
o STM3320820AS (SATA)
o STM3320620A (Ultra ATA/100)
o STM3330820A (Ultra ATA/100)
So can you tell me whether you're using a Serial ATA (SATA) or Parallel (PATA) interface with your drive and motherboard?
If you're using SATA you might have to jumper the interface (on the hard drive) down to 1.5 GBps from 3.0 GBps if your motherboard doesn't support the faster speed (and I don't believe it does - see Section 3.2.9 of the Technical Product Spec).
3.2.9 Serial ATA (SATA) Controller
The SATA controller supports two SATA devices providing an interface for SATA hard disks and ATAPI devices. The SATA interface supports PIO IDE transfers up to 16 Mb/s and Serial ATA transfers up to 1.5 Gb/s (150 MB/s). The 6300ESB I/O's SATA system contains two independent SATA signal ports. They can be electrically isolated independently. Each SATA device can have independent timings. They can be configured to the standard primary and secondary channels.
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Memory. What memory are you using? Does it match the specs of exceptable memory in the Technical Product Specification?
8.
Power Supply.
NOTE
Use only ATX12V or EPS12V compliant power supplies with the server board SE7210TP1-E. ATX12V and EPS12V power supplies have an additional power lead that provides required supplemental power for the Intel Pentium 4 processor. The board will not boot if you do not connect the 20-pin (or 24-pin) and 4-pin (or 8-pin) leads of ATX12V or EPS12V power supplies to the corresponding connectors.
Do not use a standard ATX power supply. The board will not boot with a standard ATX power supply.
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Operating System. Windows XP Professional. Original, Service Pack 1 (SP1), SP2, or SP3 (is it available yet)?
