Proliant ML350 SmartStart issues

[Jason Kunze]

Trying to get booted to the SmartStart 6.40b CD, it goes through the Loading SmartStart then still on the black screen it says Loading Drivers..... and hangs there. Tried SmartStart 7.0 and I get the same thing.

Any advice?

[Rahul Sharma]

I would say bring the server back to the minimum hardware installed on that. check the cd rom sometimes it is bad.

[chuyongho]

I have same problem. did you slove the problem?

[John Marinov]

Check that the CD is not damaged.
Reseat all components including memory.

See if you can flash the mainboard and supplemental boards using the boot disk method. Get them here:
http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/romtabl.html

If the 350 has an on-board array controller, look here also:
http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Lookup?h_lang=en&h_cc=us&cc=us&h_page=hpcom〈=en&h_client=S-A-R163-1&h_pagetype=s-002&h_query=smartarray+controller&submit.x=9&submit.y=11

Do the same for your cards.

Then try your disk again.

Good luck

[chuyongho]

Proliant ML350 G3 x2.8 2P Model
1.I upgrade system bios firmware version 2004.9.15
2.I removed sa641 and all of disk
3.I changed system board, cpu, ppm, power supply, cd-rom and power back plane
4.I test smartstart version 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1

but same problem is continued

I don't understand this case

How can I solve the problem???