Adding Gigabit NIC to Proliant 1200

[Scott Bonner]

Hello all,

I want to add an Intel PRO/1000 T Server Adapter to a Proliant 1200 Server here at office. I was told I would need to boot to a Compaq maintenance partition from floppy disks to install the card. Apparently when this system was rebuilt on 2000 they didn't install the maintenance partition.

Is it true that I do have to boot to this partition to install the card? And if so where can I get this Maintenance software?

Have a great day!!!

Best Regards,

Scott

[Terry Hutchings]

This server is not "plug and play". There isn't a standard bios present like on most desktops which allow resources to be automatically assigned to new devices.

I would recommend running the system configuration utility off of floppies, available at:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/13227.html

These allow resources be assigned to new hardware.

[Scott Bonner]

Thank you Terry!! That is exactly the answer I was looking for.

Scott