W2K, DELL Precision 220, Infotrend EZRAID, Patch Rollup 1 for SP4

Just tried the latest patches for W2K, on a server with an old EZRAID
card in it.

The box blue screened on boot with;

0x0000001E ( 0xC0000005, 0x804A1A51, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)

Box blue screened on Safe mode <sigh>.

Last driver seen loading in logging was the AGP440.SYS.

The box appeared to have a BIOS issue as I couldn't persuade it to boot
a W2K CD for repair from CDROM.

Fix was to;
Remove EZRAID hardware.
Boot as per normal.
VNC into box as the mouse and keyboard were dead (thank goodness for
Free software)
Run the uninstall in the relevant c:\WINNT\$NTUupda....<mumble>
directory.
On reboot the mouse and keyboard worked normally!
Shutdown and reinstall the EZRAID card.
Booted normally.
Shutdown and attached external RAID Array.
All back online and running - unplanned downtime 90 minutes.

Hopefully this will save someone else getting stumped. Although no idea
what I'd have done without VNC, maybe tried Safe mode or command line
mode?

Let's hope no one plugs an infected PC in, this side of the firewall
till I replace the box in question with newer hardware that isn't upset
as easily.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891861 states that older SCSI cards
are not currently compatible.




"Simon" <> wrote:

>Just tried the latest patches for W2K, on a server with an old EZRAID
>card in it.
>
>The box blue screened on boot with;
>
>0x0000001E ( 0xC0000005, 0x804A1A51, 0x00000000, 0x00000000)
>
>Box blue screened on Safe mode <sigh>.
>
>Last driver seen loading in logging was the AGP440.SYS.
>
>The box appeared to have a BIOS issue as I couldn't persuade it to boot
>a W2K CD for repair from CDROM.
>
>Fix was to;
> Remove EZRAID hardware.
> Boot as per normal.
> VNC into box as the mouse and keyboard were dead (thank goodness for
>Free software)
> Run the uninstall in the relevant c:\WINNT\$NTUupda....<mumble>
>directory.
> On reboot the mouse and keyboard worked normally!
> Shutdown and reinstall the EZRAID card.
> Booted normally.
> Shutdown and attached external RAID Array.
> All back online and running - unplanned downtime 90 minutes.
>
>Hopefully this will save someone else getting stumped. Although no idea
>what I'd have done without VNC, maybe tried Safe mode or command line
>mode?
>
>Let's hope no one plugs an infected PC in, this side of the firewall
>till I replace the box in question with newer hardware that isn't upset
>as easily.