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NinjaBomb
Asked: 2013-07-18 17:27:52 +0800 CST

Upgraded DL380 G2 To Windows Server 2008 and cannot locate network drivers - any advice?

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I was able to successfully load Windows Server 2008 on an HP DL380 G2, which is not officially supported by HP. It seems to be working perfectly fine, except for the fact I cannot locate any network drivers that will work so I really cannot do anything with the server yet. The server includes 2 HP NC3163 Fast Ethernet NIC's. I've searched high and low for anything that could potentially make these NIC's work with Windows Server 2008, but haven't had any luck yet.

Should I quit my search and get a cheap gigabit card to put in one of the open PCI slots or is there some mysterious network driver resource I cannot locate?

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    That's sad... A ProLiant DL380 G2 is a Pentium III server with 100-megabit NICs and Ultra3 parallel SCSI. It maxes-out at 6GB of RAM. :(

    These went away in 2002. Old-school.

    Luckily, the NIC is nothing special. It's just an Intel card. The Linux module/driver for the NC3163 card is the old standard Intel e100 or eepro100. The equivalent should work in Windows.

    Try the Windows 2003 drivers for the NC-Series NICs or the NC31xx driver.

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