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GX280 NIC Card (Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx) won't connect to server using Symantec Ghost
My group recently received 11 new GX280's and after building them, I would like to put their images on our ghost server. I have downloaded the NIDS2 driver onto the server but when the server attempts to reboot the client machine, it gets the "Establishing TCP Connection" line and just stops. I'm using Symantec Ghost v.7.5 as the Ghost console. Any fixes for this???
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Posted July 28th, 2005 13:00
I was finally able to get Ghost to work with the Broadcom NICs. I was using the remote client to ghost the machines (instead of a boot disk). When creating a new image dump, I had to click on the Advanced button and add the -fni switch as an additonal command line. The -fni switch disabled direct IDE access support for IDE hard disk operations. This allowed Ghost to connect to the client PC and pull the image onto the server.640
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Posted July 28th, 2005 13:00
I have received well over 100 e-mails to correct this problem. Most of them have gotten the resolution they were looking for. Feel free to e-mail me and I will send the b57.dos file over to you in .zip format.
-Jim Ponder
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Posted July 28th, 2005 16:00
I'm having a problem when booting with the ghost diskettes... when I finally get to the Ghost screen both the keyboard and mouse are completely disabed. I'm using Ghost 8.0 and also tried on Ghost 8.2 with the same results. Please help!!!
--Joe
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Posted July 28th, 2005 17:00
Does the GX280 have a ps2 keyboard port? If so, use it instead of the usb keyboard. you may have to configure the 'legacy options' in the bios (if available) on your system.
Hope some of that helps.
-Jim P.
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Posted July 28th, 2005 17:00
No ps2... only USB... very strange as you can move the mouse at the very beginning of the screen but in about 1 second it freezes as does the keyboard. I've tried this on multiple 280's with the same result. No problem with earlier GX's. I better get this working cuz I've got a boat load to roll out.
Thanks for the suggestions :)
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Posted August 2nd, 2005 19:00
We have about 110 sx280s and we use Barts ghost disk, the only thing we have to change in order for the tcpip dhcp not to freeze is the way the memory is handled.
out ibms dont seem to care, but the dells need to be set at compatible memory not maximum memory. this does the trick everytime.
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Posted August 3rd, 2005 17:00
For more concise info (without having to email someone and wait) try this. Has the "B57.dos" file that is needed for this thread.
http://www.ghosttraining.com/ghost_faq.html640
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Posted August 3rd, 2005 18:00
Found the "problem"...
When making the boot disk it asks what OS you prefer, PC-DOS or MS-DOS. I was and always did choose PC-DOS a)because it's the default b)you have to insert a win-95 or 98 boot disk to have the MS option available c) anytime I can avoid MS I will.
I chose MS-DOS, found a win-95 boot disk(used as a coaster), and bingo!
I guess it's just another step in MS taking over the world....
Thanks everyone for the replies
--Joe
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Posted September 12th, 2005 17:00
Hey guys,
I have found that changing the SATA hard drive setting to "Combination" from "Normal" in the GX 280 BIOS will allow you to use the Ghost mapped drive boot disk with the B57.dos driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme xx57 NIC.
I was having a problem that when I executed the ghost.exe file on my network drive from the client's DOS prompt, all I got was the Norton Ghost wallpaper with no keyboard or mouse activity to select any Ghost menus.
Hope that helps,
Anthony
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Posted July 6th, 2005 10:00