pbarschall

Hi, This is also my first post. I'm installing Windows XP Pro on a PowerEdge 2950 (I know, I know, it's not supported by Dell). I have gone through the usual hassle because the server doesn't let you load drivers (no floppy drive), but I found a neat way to use a USB Memory Stick to simulate the Floppy drive ("http://support.us.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R140774&formatcnt=1&libid=0&fileid=187876"), so now I have the PERC 5/i drivers available. So my problem: XP loads fine, including partitioning and formatting the RAID 1 drives. It says everything loaded, but when it reboots the computer, I get the BSOD (Blue screen of death) with the error code 0x0000007b, meaning it doesn't recognize the hard drive/controller. Anyone seen this before? I've been fiddling with the BIOS (Consistency Checks, booting off of different drives) and tried some different drivers (Win2000 drivers, XP drivers), and loading with XP SP2 instead of just XP. Every time, no matter what, I get stuck with BSOD. It seems like the drivers are good for copying files, but won't let the drive be a boot drive. I've set the Virtual Disk 0 to the boot drive in BIOS, and loaded XP onto that drive, but that doesn't seem to improve anything. Any suggestions? I'll take straws to grasp at... Thanks!