Re: SBS and moving to new hardware

I have never had to use the /PAE Switch on SBS and it has always seen/used
the 4GB of Memory
(This is not needed on SBS)
Russ

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"LBTsupport" <> wrote in message
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> He everyone,
>
> I have had a very strange experience with moving SBS 2003 sever to new
> hardware, I have managed to move about 20 of them with no problem at all
> ( all going to the same Intel server board S5500HCV board ).
>
> But on 2 occasions I have come across a problem with using PAE, now
> these 2 machine came from same model of system board ( another Intel
> board ) but when the system boots using PAE it will blue screen of death
>
> ( 0x050 Page fault in non paged area )
>
> I have spoken to Intel about this and they cannot really offer any
> assistance other than changing the board or changing the bios options.
> ( but the boards are fine as they work normally under a clean install )
>
> I have also opened a case with MS support, there answer was to
> re-install from scratch (which is not an option as both these customers
> have 50+ machine's ) despite them remotely connecting to the machine and
> running various tests.
>
> Now I have a test machine with the same hardware and I can replicate
> this problem at will using a backup from the customers live server. And
> the first time I booted the system before all the system drivers were
> install it would see the whole 4GB no problems. so I am thinking there
> some driver in there from the old board that is some how compatible with
> the new hardware and causing a conflict.
>
> I have tried removing all non present devices from device manager. just
> want some thoughts from the rest of you guys in case there is something
> I have missed.
>
>
> Cheers in advance
>
> Stuart Humphreys - MCPS
>
>
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