Installing XP Pro on G6

[sdrake48]

HP offers P410i driver for 64-bit XP but not for 32-bit XP. Anyone have success installing 32-bit XP Pro on 360/370/380 G6 servers (without using P400 and Win2K drivers)?

[Jonathan Solis]

The drivers for the G6 servers will not work for XP pro, I know some customers like to use this OS as standard; however, this OS is not supported, for the G6 servers, and if you are to have a problem with the server in the future HP will not support any OS questions or troubleshooting involving the OS.

[sdrake48]

Don't need HP's support. Only need a 32-bit version of the P410i driver that HP provides for XP-64bit on the P410i Software Download page.

[sysbuilder]

I'm looking for 32-bit XP drivers as well. I run Windows Embedded (based on XP kernel) on my appliances and thus far it looks like I won't be migrating to the G6 line. HP, if you're listening please release G6 Smart Array drivers for 32 bit XP.

[JMK-HP]

The drivers you download from HP.COM typically won't install on XP.

This is unsupported but during development we performed rudimentary testing to see if it worked.

Try this:
- Go to the product's driver download page
- Download the 'Windows 2003 Server 32-bit' version of the drivers you need
- Use a 'Zip' type program to open the downloaded .EXE file and extract the files to a directory. For instance, you could use Winzip or the freeware 7zip (www.7-zip.org)
- There should be a .INF file in the directory you extracted to. During driver installation, select 'HAVE DISK' and point to this .INF file

I will monitor this thread for future responses.

[sdrake48]

I am able to install the 2003 32-bit driver as you detail, but then the server will never boot again (not from a P400 card or from the P410i). At that point I have to start over.

[sysbuilder]

steve drake 2 -

Check out the response I received (from Adrian Clint) in another thread:

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1374250&admit=109447627+1254146271105+28353475

Those blade drivers are XP drivers and are working for my P212. At the addition drivers stage, there were options for the other G6 HPCISSS devices.

[sdrake48]

Thanks sysbuilder! This looks promising - I'll see if it works for me.

[sysbuilder]

Update: I've got everything working but video.

[sdrake48]

Thanks. I was able to get the P410i booting with the driver for the ws460c g6. But no luck with the NC375i quad-port nic that HP delivers with the G6. I was able to get optional plug-in nics nc373t, nc382t, and nc360t to work, but would prefer to use NC375i. No issues with the integrated video ATI ES1000.