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Conference decwet::windows-nt

Title:Windows NT
Notice:See note 15.0 for HCL location
Moderator:TARKIN::LIN.com::FOLEY
Created:Thu Oct 31 1991
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6086
Total number of notes:31449

5751.0. "NT40 4100 DE500 Crash" by ACISS1::BARELLA () Wed Feb 26 1997 16:36

    I'm loading Windows NT 4.0 on an Alpha Server 4100 5/300 with KSPSA
    controller + DE500
    
    After I define the network adapter the installation crashes..
    
    Any clue ???
    
    Regards 
    
    Alberto Barella
    
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5751.1POBOXB::COMMOI'll find no bug before its time!Thu Feb 27 1997 10:3937
Can you give us any more configuration info (FW and HW numbers, versions, rev
levels, etc) and where you were in the install process whne it breaks?  I infer
from your note that you were in the graphics portion of the install - probably
where the Install Wizard allows you to pick or sense the adapter card. 


I installed NT4.0 on ten 4100s slated for NT Wizards this past week.  Three of
them had DE500s (I never bothered to check their rev level though).  No
problems were encountered. 

There are three different versions of the DE500, the -AA, -XA, and -BA.  The
"offically supported matrix is:

	           +------------+-----------+
	           |   NT3.51   |   NT4.0   |
	+----------+------------+-----------+
	| DE500-AA |    yes     |    yes    |
	+----------+------------+-----------+
	| DE500-BA |    no      |    no     |
	+----------+------------+-----------+
	| DE500-XA |    yes     |    yes    |
	+----------+------------+-----------+


In the short term I would recommend installing NT without a network.  You can 
then go back and install the network with the latest released/beta version
of the DE500 of your choice.  The drivers are available via decnet or WWW from:
	
	KALI::PCDRIVERS:[ETHERNET.DE500.RELEASE]
        ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/adapters/ethernet/de500/release/

While I am not aware of any KZPSC/DE500 interactions you could try putting 
one of the options in PCI_0 and the other in PCI_1.


-norm