Installation Instructions and Important Information

Installation Instructions and Important Information 25

Hard Drives

• Unable to access IDE hard drive space greater than 137 GB.

If your system is configured with a 137 GB or larger IDE hard drive,

you may not be able to use hard drive space greater than 137 GB.

To correct this issue, install Windows 2000 Server SP4. See the

Windows 2000 Server bug fix documentation or Knowledge Base

article KB305098 and KB314695 at the Microsoft Support site at

support.microsoft.com

for installation instructions.

• The partition drive letters are not assigned in contiguous order.

After you configure the partitions on your hard drive, the partitions

do not appear in contiguous logical order.

To correct this problem, manually assign the drive letters to the

partitions.

Input Devices

• Unable to use a PS/2 mouse connected to a Chicony USB keyboard.

When you connect a Chicony keyboard with a PS/2 mouse to your

PowerEdge system, the Windows operating system does not detect

the mouse.

This issue occurs when the Chicony keyboard is connected to the serial

port. To correct this issue, perform one of the following procedures:

– Disconnect the PS/2 mouse from the keyboard and connect the

mouse directly to your system.

– Attach a USB mouse to your system.

Networks

• A yellow "bang"

occurs on a system that has multiple Broadcom

5708 devices.

Reboot your system to fix this issue. For more information, refer to

the Microsoft Knowledge Base article number 918417 located at

the Microsoft Support website at