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windows install failt on dual sock ( physical cpu's )
Dear users
i am currently installing a server ( 1 U server ) that contains 2 Cpu's
it are 2X a dual core 3GHZ and contains 2GB ram ( DDR1 ECC)
The hd's are 10K hd's ( 140GB ) in Raid 1+0
First i try to install xp on it , the cd boots up it says checking system spects and i get a black screen
then i try to install windows 7 , it says starting and keeps staying at that part .. it just do not move
at current moment i going try out 2003 and 2008 because all other versions are not working
There is 1 version that seems to work , also a windows 7 instalation but it takes about 30 min to get to the first screen of the setup (aborted instalation and took a other cd to try something new)
Now my question
could it has somehting to do with the dual cpu's that it refuse to install ?
The system is also 32 bit ( 3GHZ cpu's )
on my other server ( otheer model , but same spects) is windows 2008 working ,so my guess is that it also will work on this server
but the real question is why it keeps failing to install xp
why do i like to have xp ? , because the ram usage is a lot lower ( and i need a lot of ram for my project , so how less ram the win use how better)
also i need to have dotnet 3.5 on it ,so xp is the lowest i can go
The server works perfect with linux (centos 5.8 net install) , so only windows installs are failing on it so far
Thank you for your help
Greetings From PowerChaos
Last edited by PowerChaos; 23 Jul 2012 at 08:45. Reason: fixed a few errors