Windows Server 2003

I have recently baught hp proliant dl145 server. It is run on amd process
and contains 2 onboard nics. Upon installing the os, the os didn't find any
nics. I looked in the bios management screen. I found that nics are
enabled. However, their mac address is FF:FF:FF:...

Does this imply that the nics are bad or, perhaps, the os needs to be
install via pxe boot?

Thanks in advance

hi,
did you tryed to put the disc with drivers and in device manager to update
drivers who are missing?
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Dragos CAMARA
MCSA Windows 2003 server


"RG" wrote:

> I have recently baught hp proliant dl145 server. It is run on amd process
> and contains 2 onboard nics. Upon installing the os, the os didn't find any
> nics. I looked in the bios management screen. I found that nics are
> enabled. However, their mac address is FF:FF:FF:...
>
> Does this imply that the nics are bad or, perhaps, the os needs to be
> install via pxe boot?
>
> Thanks in advance

On Feb 26, 11:25 am, RG <R...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have recently baught hp proliantdl145server. It is run on amd process
> and contains 2 onboard nics. Upon installing the os, the os didn't find any
> nics.

Did you find a solution for this? I am having the same problem. None
of the drivers that I downloaded from the HP web site or the ones on
the CD that came with the server will work.

I have Linux on one of these boxes and it shows the NIC is a BCM5721.
The driver CD also thinks this is the NIC to use and it extracts a
b57win32.{cat,inf,sys} files, but I can't get the "add hardware"
wizard to use the files to install anything.

When using Device Manager, no unconfigured devices (the ones with the
yellow question mark) show up.

-- David