Comments on: Modernizing Your File Systems

By: Knuppel

Knuppel — Mon, 30 May 2011 08:44:17 +0000

FYI.
I added an ARC-1110 PCI-X card to my Powervault 745n. Performance is now 300% better than CERC RAID. Mind you this card is the server’s bottleneck.
Con: i cannot connect the pcb leds anymore, so no visual inspection on raid possible. This could be solved using a pcb with 8 leds though.

By: Luffie

Luffie — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:04:31 +0000

Hi Ok my grandma got a new desktop a few weeks ago, it came with a free trial of McAfee which I installed for her no probs (have it myself at home) She already bought a different antivirus package (Bulldog?) which I was going to install when the McAfee trial was up. Anyway my little brother has been up for xmas and since there's only a few days of the McAfee trial left thought he would install it now for her. Since then the pc goes on to the desktop and thats about it, it wont let me open anything in the controll panel and cant get on the internet. It wont even turn off so have to do it by the button! Its as if its loading up constantly but doesnt do anything at all. I'm pretty sure it's cos of the 2 antivirus software together am I right? How do I sortr it? I wanted to go into add/remove programmes and get rid of McAfee but I cant get into it? Thanks for any advice santoramaa

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:09:55 +0000

Well if you don’t want to go through the trouble of getting WDS setup, you can create a bootable usb to do the whole process. You will need to create a bootable USB key with WinPE 2.0, I just googled it that time and found this blog which should help you out: http://windowsconnected.com/blogs/joshs_blog/archive/2007/02/05/creating-a-bootable-winpe-2-0-usb-key.aspx, once you have that done, get your server 2008 installation disk and copy it to the bootable key. Then just boot the key on your 745N and load setup.exe to start the windows installation using the command prompt. I have a the standard RAID card that came with the 745N, I believe it is a Dell CERC SATA 1.5 with 6 slots, Dell still sells them even after 5 years.

By: Priest

Priest — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:05:58 +0000

This is great news! I’ve been searching for a way to get my old Dell 745n running Server 2008, but haven’t found anything! Can you please give me some more info on how you did this? Also, what raid controller do you have in your 745n? I have an Intel 31244 whcih seems very hard to get going. Please let me know. Thanks