Compaq 3000R - ProLiant - 128 MB RAM Notice page 24

codes will assist them in diagnosing the problem. (0x4,
0x1, 0x0, 0x0)
The cause of this problem is that the NTLOADER is encountering a duplicate hard drive
signature. This signature is calculated by the NTLOADER code after reading a specific
sector offset from the hard drive. For more information please refer to Microsoft
document ID: Q226361.
The following list provides some of the things that can cause hard drive to have duplicate
signatures:
1. Low-level formatting the drives. We reproduced this on two systems at HP.
2. If you run a utility to zero out track zero on more than 8 drives NTLOADER will
calculate duplicate signatures.
3. When you have a set of drives previously used with a DAC and move them to a SCSI
adapter.
4. Using a disk imaging utility to duplicate a hard drive will create a duplicate signature.
At this time, Microsoft has no fix for this problem
Workaround: HP recommends that you use the following workaround for this problem.
1. If you experiences this problem, remove all drives with the exception of the target
boot drive. Install Windows 2000 and then add the removed hard drives to the system.
2. Run "Disk Management" tool to prepare the remainder of the drives to be used in the
system.
A. Boot the system with a Windows 98SE recovery diskette. (This version supports
FAT32, which works on large hard drives.)
B. Perform an FDISK on each drive.
C. Install Windows 2000.
Tip #5. LX Pro, LX, LXe, LH Pro, LD Pro & LH II hang when booting
from the Windows 2000 CD
Issue: If the system contains an Adaptec SCSI controller, depending upon how the
controller is configured, the system can hang if you attempt to boot from the Windows
2000 CD. The hang is usually encountered within 30 seconds after the start of the boot
process. The message that is displayed on the screen is "Set up is inspecting your
computer's hardware configuration ...".
· The LXPro, LX & LXe system will hang during Windows 2000 installation if you
attempt to boot from the Windows 2000 CD and any Adaptec SCSI controller
(including the system's embedded SCSI controller) is configured as the 1
st
bootable