Tip #3. Nt Warning About Drives With More Than 1024 Cylinders During Boot; Tip #4. Service Pack Files Replaced Without Feedback; Tip #5. Using The Nt Event Log To Diagnose Network Adapter Problems - HP D6030A - NetServer - E50 Installation Manual

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Tip #3. NT Warning About Drives with More than 1024 Cylinders
During Boot
If the boot drive is new or just initialized, Windows NT may give a warning
message about disk drives having more than 1024 cylinders during the first reboot
from the hard drive. Windows NT may hang just after the SCSI BIOS or Disk
Array BIOS banner. This is a Windows NT limitation, please see Microsoft
TechNet article # Q137474 for details.
Fix: In some situations, the Windows NT installation program may detect the hard
drive geometry incorrectly, and thus limit the initial drive partition size to 1024
MB or hang while rebooting. To correct this problem, perform the following
solutions:
In the Windows NT installation program:
1. Partition the primary partition to 1024 MB.
2. Format the primary partition using FAT.
3. Press F3 to quit the installation program.
4. Restart the installation program.
5. At the drive partition screen, delete the 1024 MB primary partition.
6. Partition the primary partition to any desired size up to the drive capacity.
7. Continue with the Windows NT installation program.

Tip #4. Service Pack Files Replaced Without Feedback

Some system configuration changes may ask you to install the original Windows
NT drivers diskette. This may cause some system files to be replaced with the old
version. It is recommended that if you make any changes that you apply the
service pack again.
Tip #5. Using the NT Event Log to Diagnose Network Adapter
Problems
If the Network Adapter driver fails to start or does not appear to be working
correctly, examine the Event Log for any driver diagnostic messages.
1. Start the Event Viewer applet in the Administrative Tools group in
Program Manager.
2. Search the Event Log Source column for any entries named "Hptx."
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