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Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

 
Lloyd Duffield
Occasional Advisor

Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

Hi I am having a problem every time i try and install the NIC driver NC-Series it fails and tell me to check th install log, can some tell me where the install log is and why it is doing this on all 3 versions of psp 7.0, 7.91 and 8

We have quite a few of these machines doing this

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Blazhev_1
Honored Contributor

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

Hi,

did you updated the nic firmware?

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=US&swItem=MTX-86a7c2b4e0ab4d6c8f6d6b86fb&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1121516

If you done this, if the nics are in a team , you must dissolve the team and try

if again not, try to disable TOE & RSS from NCU(if running win 2003) and try manual driver update...

Pac
KarloChacon
Honored Contributor

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

hi

what if you uninstall the ones you have right now and test the ones from Broadcom website some people say they work for NC373i

http://broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/netxtremeii.php

try and let us know

regards
Didn't your momma teach you to say thanks!
HP_Sammy
Trusted Contributor

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

Hi Lloyd,

try downgrading to one of the following drivers at time and i am sure atleat one two shud work

Version: 2.8.22.0 (18 Dec 2006)

Version: 3.0.7.0 (26 Mar 2007)

And let me the know OS ver 32bit 64 bit etc if need further assistance.

Thanks and regards
Sammy :)
Lloyd Duffield
Occasional Advisor

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

HI. unable to downgrade the software and when it still doesnt update the drivers when I dissolve the team. (fails on the install as soon as i click on Install)

The Broadcom drivers also failed to install
Emmanuel Martienz
New Member

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

Has anyone been able to resolve this issue? This has been occuring on a few different cluster enviroments.
Arian van der Pijl
Regular Advisor

Re: Updating NIC Driver on NC series psp 7.9, 7.91 & 8 wont update

By any chance are these Terminal Servers?