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Changing the IP Scheme crashes Server

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by maddiuex

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First I would like to thank you for taking the time to view this question.
here is the specks.
Echange Server 2000 with latest critical and hotfixes, Service Packs. NO antivirus loading. On a Netwserver LC3 with a Netraid 1 card confiugured to Raid 5, with 3, 9 gig ultra scsi drives, all bios, on server, raid and drives have the latest and greatest. Does not matter if I have service packs installed or not, . When I first load the server I give it a private ip address of 192.168.0.1, if I change that ip to anything, When rebooting, and at the Windows loading screen I get disk i/o error laoding c:\winnt\system32\config\system and the same on system.alt I have created a backup of this entire folder and treid to repair with a disk, and through the repair console by renaming all files and coping the original files back to the directory , the files was before the ip change.
I have read the Microsoft articles on the registry size and this is not the problem. And I have ran a full HP and Micro 2000 and Troubleshooter on the system with no problems found with the drives. This only happens when I change the IP Scheme on the nic. Help?

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by maddiuex

A couple things, One is that I cannot change the IP Scheme from 192.168.0.1, The original adminstrator set all pc , Printers, etc. to this scheme, The reason to change the IP Scheme is to set it up for web access for update's from Microsoft and wheninstalled Norton Corp Antivirus? I need the Ip Address of the 63.90 range for this. and then need to set it back to the 198 range, They have 2 ip schemes and 2 of the partners just have laptops that surf the internet and are not on the network, So I use their ISDN to update the server.

by acattr

when installing the server, do not use the HP installation assistant disk. During the regular 2000 installation, you will need to have the netraid 1 drivers on a floppy, you can call HP if you can't find them on the disk. they dont recommend usingthe assistant disk.

Try using another NIC also.

by maddiuex

I have treid to install without the Hp Netserver cdrom and the same thing happens, BTW. should have said this, I am certified Netserver Lc3 Hp technician with an HP Authorized service center, and Have exhausted all means through the Hp side. Next step would be to contact Microsoft. But as always I start here first. Thank you.

by maddiuex

BTW. should have said this, I am certified Netserver Lc3 Hp technician with an HP Authorized service center, and Have exhausted all means through the Hp side. Next step would be to contact Microsoft. But as always I start here first. Thank you.

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