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SCO 6 on Intel S3420GPLX
Hi all,
I build SCO 6 servers fo one of my customers and we normally use the Intel S3210SHLC and have no issues. Due to lack of stock I decided to order th newer S3420GPLX. It is not on the SCO compatibility list.
I am no SCO expert by a long shot, but I have not seen this type of problem before. During installation it gets to the first blue screen and says "Please Wait" and hangs there.
So far I have tried:
1) Removing the Adaptec RAID Controller so there are currently no Hard Drives in the unit.
2) Swapping the DVD-RW drive, SATA Cable and SATA ports for the DVDRW drive.
3) Changeing the sata controller mode to enhanced, compatible and AHCI.
4) Swapping RAM.
5) Turning off all cores on the CPU but one.
6) Turning off HyperThreading.
7) I have tested the media.
8) I also tried the psm=atpu option at the boot prompt (don't know if it is case sensitive please let me know and I will try again tomrrow).
No matter what it, seems to freeze up at the same spot. It goes to a black screen, makes a post about the installed RAM, goes to a blue screen with some legal mumbo jumbo and a Please Wait message, keyboard stops responding and that's the end of it.
I also tried an old SCO 506 CD I had and no freeze up.
I hope someone can give me a clue. I know the system is not on the compatibility list, but I cannot see why it would freeze up at that point. I don't care if the onboard components do not work, I will by third party components if need be. Is there a feature I need to turn off? What is the installation doing at that point? It's not the end of the world I can always turn it into a WIN2K8 server, but I do not like getting stumped.
Any and all help is ppreciated.
Thanks, Nova