Installation Guidelines; Se7500Cw2 System Won't Boot To Dos With An Adaptec* Card Installed; Windows 2000* Won't Install On A Maxtor D540X-4G 137Gig Ata Hard-Drive - Intel SE7500CW2 - EATX DUAL Xeon Socket 603 E7500 Motherboard Hardware Manual

Intel® Server Board SE7500CW2
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Installation Guidelines

6.1 SE7500CW2 system won't boot to DOS with an Adaptec* card
installed.
Issue: SE7500CW2 system boots to the Adaptec SMOR utility instead of booting into
DOS.
Implication: When running the Adaptec card in "EBDA relocation" mode the system will not
boot. If Adaptec's card "EBDA Relocation" mode is disabled on SE7500CW2
BIOS 1.12 the card will perform correctly under some circumstances.
Guideline: Create boot disks using Windows 98 DOS instead of DOS 6.22 or the ROM-
DOS shipped on the resource CD.
Status: This issue is resolved with a new release of the Adaptec BIOS and SE7500CW2
BIOS 1.16. The Adaptec BIOS v1.30 should work correctly. BIOS 1.16 and 1.17
are now available for the SE7500CW2. Both should work properly with this card.
6.2 Windows 2000* won't install on a Maxtor D540X-4G 137GIG
ATA hard-drive
Issue: Larger than 137GIG Maxtor ATA hard-drives don't give proper disk space
information in Windows 2000 and are not recognized during the installation
process.
Implication: Windows 2000 installation won't find this 137GIG hard-drive. The current
Promise drivers won't allow for this hard-drive to be recognized.
Guideline: None.
Status: Promise RAID driver build 1.14 (PDC20627) allows for this hard-drive to install
Windows 2000. Pending production release of this driver from Promise, * please
contact Promise* for availability.
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