ML350G3 SmartArray Controller Failure SA641 replaced with SA642

[Floyd O]

I had a failure with the SA641 and could not purchase a replacement as it was discontinued. I was told that the SA642 would be the replacement. It arrived today and I put it into the server. The card is posting and the Windows 2003 SBS server begins the GUI splash screen. After a few seconds it gets a STOP 0x0000007b and restarts.

I believe the issue is that the OS is not recognizing the SA642. All of my drives and data are intact.

How do I get the SA642 to boot the Ultra320 drives without a complete rebuild?

Thanks.

[Matti_Kurkela]

This question would be better served in a Windows system administration section of these forums, as this seems to be strictly a Windows OS issue. I'll ask the forum moderators to move this thread there.

My Windows knowledge is badly rusty and somewhat out of date, but I understand that booting from Windows 2003 CD-ROM offers some recovery options.

There might be an automated recovery option that hopefully can insert the correct SA642 driver to the existing system.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325375
(see section titled "How to Repair Your Installation of Windows", near the end of the page)

MK

[Glenn Matthys]

0x7b means INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103/en-us

Most likely some UID has changed causing windows not to find the drive it's looking for. Sometimes this error is easily fixed by booting the windows CD, selecting recovery console and executing fixboot & fixmbr.