NEC Express5800 Series Maintenance Manual page 25

Chapter 1 Maintenance
[?] A garbled message appears on the text-based setup screen during Windows installation and
Windows installation cannot be continued.
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Are several Hard Disk Drives connected? Or did you try to install Windows with the several Logical
Drives created under the RAID Controller?
 Remove the Hard Disk Drives other than the Hard Disk Drive on which to install the OS once and
then install Windows.
 If you want to install Windows on a disk under the RAID Controller, install the OS using the
EXPRESSBUILDER DVD. If important data is still on a Logical Drive, be sure to make a backup
copy of it before installation. If you want to create several Logical Drives, create additional
Logical Drives with the RAID System configuration utility after installing Windows.
[?] A product key was not requested
 For Windows Server 2008 R2/Windows Server 2008
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If you install using the backup DVD-ROM, entering the product key is not required. If installing using a
DVD-ROM other than the backup DVD-ROM, a screen for entering the product key is displayed twice,
during OS installation, and, before the MICROSOFT SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS dialog box, which
displays after OS installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to enter the product key.
[?] The following devices are indicated as faulty devices in a Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core
installation environment
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SM Bus Controller
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PCI Simple Communications Controller
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PCI Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Controller
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Base System Device
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System Interrupt Controller
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Performance Counters
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There is no operational problem.
[?] Unable to access the partition which was previously created after reinstalling while several disks are
connected
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For details, refer to the Microsoft website below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2497048/ja
[?] When Windows Server 2008 R2 is installed while several disks are connected, the system partition and
the boot partition (100 MB) are sometimes created in another disk
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For details, refer to the Microsoft website below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2530901/ja
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Express5800/E120d-1 Maintenance Guide
5. Troubleshooting
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