DCPromo completed but now cant get past loading screen

[irsprint84]

Sounds like a DNS issue, should take more than 3/4 mins max

[CHR1S]

All thats set in DNS are the two forwarders to VM DNS and thats it, am I being a div and forgetting to do something?

[irsprint84]

Should there be anything else in the dns? i.e. other servers/ pc's?

 

I m abit confused by how post is going, when you're dcpromo'ing are you making this a new forest or part of a current domain?

[CHR1S]

Its all new, its a home test domain, there are no other domains.

 

Its pointing to Virgin Media DNSs for internet and my superhub as a gateway only.

 

There are no other servers or PCs that need IPs yet, they are all being served by static IPs.

[irsprint84]

Did you install DNS separably or within the process of creating the forest?

[CHR1S]

I have tried both ways, this current incarnation is before hand, but I am getting the same results either way.

[irsprint84]

Is your VM bridged? dns event viewer showing anything? put virgin in dns forwarders?

[CHR1S]

Yeh, VM are in the forwarders, DNS showing no warnings or errors.

What do you mean by bridged?

[irsprint84]

Yeh, VM are in the forwarders, DNS showing no warnings or errors.

What do you mean by bridged?

 

Well what VM software are you using?

[CHR1S]

Sorry should point out VM = Virgin Media and not Virtual Machine in this instance!

 

Ooops!

[irsprint84]

I m pretty sure its a DNS issue but unless I saw it cant think of aanything else

[CHR1S]

Thanks for tying insprint84 I will have a poke around and see what I come up with!

[CHR1S]

Bah, keeps going into system restore too, think its screwed. Gonna redownload and try again.

[CHR1S]

The USB memory stick I was using is poop I think, I went for another install with a fresh download and it started throwing driver corruption errors.

 

Doing a fresh install on a different usb, seems to be quicker too.

[PeterW]

I may have missed this but what hardware is this installed on?

[CHR1S]

HP Microserver with 4Gb Ram upgrade.

[PeterW]

That uses an AMD chipset right? What hard drive mode are the SATA disks in RAID/AHCI?

 

What RAID driver version are you using? Is it v3.2.1540.75 ?

Edited September 11, 2011 by PeterW

[CHR1S]

There are no drives in the RAID, they haven't been delivered yet (thanks scan....) just the 250Gb drive that comes with the system moved to an aux SATA port

 

And yes AMD

[PeterW]

Did you need to load any storage drivers to install windows on the single drive, is it in AHCI mode in the BIOS do you know?

This problem is just like one I spent ages trying to track down and it was an AMD AHCI/RAID driver issue.

[CHR1S]

No no extra drivers, it gets passed the green scroll loading screen now and sits at a black screen with white mouse cursor but goes no further.

If I restart it goes into recovery mode.

 

If I dont DCpromo and just have DNS and DHCP its fine.

[PeterW]

I am pretty sure you are having the problem I had, try and set the SATA controller to AHCI or RAID and use the storage driver here Software Posting

 

Another way to test if it is the same isssue is to see if it happens on 2003 R2, you will be able to run dcpromo but after restarting you would get an lsas error message.

[CHR1S]

Thanks Peter,

 

The link sends me to a not authorised error, can you direct link me please?

[PeterW]

Weird it works for me, try this HP ProLiant MicroServer series*-* Download drivers and software - HP Business Support Center and look at the storage section.

[CHR1S]

HP forwards me to that same link, all I get is not authorized

[CHR1S]

Scratch that, it opens in IE just not Chrome.... got the DL thanks