Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Installing 2012 Server on an Intel DH67CL Motherboard

First Issue: Strange mouse was not working so reversed the order and all is good.
Second Issue: Intel blocks server drivers on the onboard 82579 NIC. Fix - When you go through the update driver option, don't choose the auto option, choose the browse for driver, then on the next screen say Let me pick from a list. This is where you need to go into the 'Intel Corporation' rather than 'Intel' and choose the 82579 network adapter.

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It will warn you about installing the driver but it seems to work for me.
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Added Hyper-V role from Server Manager > Manage > Add Roles and Features
 
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New NIC with Virtual Connection for Hyper-V
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Added drivers for a NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 graphics card and had no issues with Win8 drivers. Used 306.97-desktop-win8-win7-winvista-64bit-english-whql downloaded from NVIDIA site.  (UPDATE) Make sure to install minimum drivers the 3D drivers caused BSOD

Need to add Desktop Experience?  Now look for User Interfaces and Infrastructure

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References
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserveressentials/thread/e2efafdb-2b3e-4e55-b049-883c00451652/