Dear Wise Ones,
I loaded winXP sp3 on a blanked Dell PowerEdge 400sc server. I know, that’s “unsupported” by Dell, but I assumed if my domain server saw that I had loaded the 400sc with the same license of Server2003 that it is running, then it would not allow the 400sc on our network. (Am I correct in assuming Microsoft would exclude a 2nd server with the same license OS? My public school just doesn’t have the $100 for a new license of Server2008 right now…)
The OS loaded wonderfully and I got the drivers to get the video card and NIC operating properly and I updated both the BIOS and the chipset. The 400sc still says the “Multimedia Audio Controller” and the “PCI Input Device” need drivers, but I’m only using this box to host a FileMaker database (silently), so I don’t figure I need the audio driver and I can’t for the life of me figure out the driver for the PCI business.
Here’s my problem: the machine operates beautifully until I leave it alone for a while. After about 15 minutes, it behaves as if it’s going to sleep, even though I’ve deactivated all the low energy states (turn off monitor, turn off hard disks, system standby, hibernate). Once the monitor switches off, nothing will bring the machine back to a usable state and the remote FileMaker users can no longer connect to the database. I have to switch off the machine and then start it up again in order to use it at all.
Does this sound like a “server on XP” problem? It doesn’t seem to me that it’s anything to do with that whole “wake on LAN” rigmarole, does it? Something in the BIOS? Some fault in my machine independent of the OS?
I’d be very grateful for any help. This is the perfect machine to host my little school reporting dbase and I’d hate to have to move it to a slower workstation with less RAM.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Lev in BK