I’m going crazy trying to get USB 2.0 support in my DL 380 G3 server! I’m running Win SBS2003 and otherwise everything is working perfectly with this server.
It has 3 PCI-X slots- Slot 1 is PCI-X 133MHz (non-hot swap) and the other 2 – slots 2 & 3 are PCI-X 100MHz hot swap.
Here’s the problem…
Card 1. First card I tried was ST Labs (VIA Chipset)- 3+1 USB 2.0 – Tried it in all 3 slots- the lights on the server front panel flash amber/green (never seen amber before!!) and the server won’t boot. Took it out and tried in a desktop gigabyte PC- & of course it works fine!
Card 2. Second card I tried was Chronos (VIA Chipset) 5 Ports.
In Slot 1 the server complains during bios boot that card is PCI header 2 and cannot be configured by BIOS- card will have to be configured by OS… but when 2003 Server screen appears you get a Blue Screen with NMI Parity Error…
In slot 2 or 3 server boots up normally and detects new device. Win2003 loads native VIA USB 2 drivers. All seems OK… but
If you try to plug in a USB flash device (in this case USB 2 imation 1G) wham! the server blue screens and that damn ‘NMI parity error is back’. However if you boot with the device attached- all is well and you can read/write to it- no problems.
I also tried a USB 2.0 Tape Drive (HPDAT72). Installs driver okay, seems to work when you use NTBackup to write to the device, but it always seems to fail during the Verify with a ‘Hardware error- failure to read from the device’. I’ve tried a completely new Tape Drive unit- several new tapes and all do the same thing- fails on Verify about at about 85% done. It all leads me to think that the USB 2.0 card is either flaky or the PCI-X bus is doing some weird **it with the USB 2.0 card.
Went out and bought a 3rd card to try. This time a SWANN (NEC Chipset) USB 2.0 5 Port but alas when I went to install it noticed it will not allow me to fit it as there is only one notch in card, but 2 notches in slot.
I’m hoping someone else can help me? Perhaps there is something in the BIOS (hidden advanced settings???) that I can use to make a PCI-X slot in this beast behave?
Thanks. Daz
