Anyone have problems with Intel CX4 adapters on Server Core?

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mooseracing
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Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:25 pm

One of my iSCSI boxes have a 10Gb card that works fine in Stand and Enterprise, but in Core both ports show up but only one will work, the other will have a yellow triangle saying the device is not working because Windows can't load the driver, yet the other port works great. :lol:

I have a case opened with Intel, they sent me a new card as they can't reproduce the problem, but the new card does the exact same thing. Yes the driver is the latest.

I was hoping there might be a bigger 10Gb crowd here, has anyone ran into this?
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Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:35 pm

Try to change the port you're using for the cx4 adapter. Dust and small particles often caused me much problems with my PCI slot stuff
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Mon Mar 28, 2011 7:40 pm

Just incase anyone comes across this in their ventures:

The last things I tried were removing all traces of Intel Drivers. Reinstalled using the Pnp command and then only had 1 port working on the 10Gb card, the onboard Intel Gb's wouldn't work at all.

So I said screw it, and reinstalled core and now all show up :roll: The 10Gb card was in there when I installed Core the first time, not to mention the same media. Whatever, one step closer to being 10Gb without a switch in between. Waiting till after hours to take down my target and bring it back up synced. Yay.
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Mon Mar 28, 2011 8:00 pm

Wow! Outstanding! Great work done! Please keep us updated. Really want to have more 10 GbE feedback. Thank you!
mooseracing wrote:Just incase anyone comes across this in their ventures:

The last things I tried were removing all traces of Intel Drivers. Reinstalled using the Pnp command and then only had 1 port working on the 10Gb card, the onboard Intel Gb's wouldn't work at all.

So I said screw it, and reinstalled core and now all show up :roll: The 10Gb card was in there when I installed Core the first time, not to mention the same media. Whatever, one step closer to being 10Gb without a switch in between. Waiting till after hours to take down my target and bring it back up synced. Yay.
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