Hello all,
I'm sorry if any of this was already discussed in a different topic but I can't seem to find an answer to my current issue and I was wondering if others had similar before.
We recently got a DL380p G8 server with 4-port NIC. I had initially installed the server with no issues outside of Intelligent Provisioning where I realized I set the wrong RAID level. I decided to try out Intelligent Provisioning to make the the install easier for the drivers and things went well and I was into windows with the RAID level I needed and ability to join the domain. The issue came up after I joined the domain and rebooted it went back to the Intelligent Provisioning.
Thinking something went wrong, I eventually got it back to joining the domain and rebooting and it booted fine. So I installed windows updates, let it reboot but then the same issue came up where it tried to go back into Intelligent Provisioning.
After a few days of testing, I found the issue for this was the server is resetting the boot order back to default which for some reason has Intelligent Provisioning coming before booting to HDD and even disabling the option for Intelligent Provisioning didn't help in my earlier tests. Setting the boot order worked one time but then ends up resetting itself and I have to keep manually booting from HDD.
I am also having another issue where the NIC doesn't always show up in the list. It shows sometimes as I was able to join the domain and even download windows updates at one point but even trying to install the correct driver won't work.
I tried re-seating the NIC yet still encounter the same issue.
Does anyone have any ideas on something I may have missed? I figured I'd message here in case anyone had ideas before messaging HP directly.
Thanks,
Derek