windows 10 installation wont progress

[emosun]

server is a dl580 g2 , just trying to install something besides server 2003

 

windows xp 32bit = installs , bsod when trying to boot in any mode
windows 7 32bit = no drives detected , essentially no drive controller driver
windows server 2008 = also no drive controller driver
windows 10 64 bit = error cpus not 64bit compatible (tried just to see what it would do)
windows 10 32 bit = stays on windows logo forever after "press any key to boot from cd"

 

wondering if there's a way to see what windows 10 32 bit is getting stuck on.

[Guest]

Windows installers have needed a verbose mode forever, but none exist that I'm aware of. "Windows is doing stuff, so just wait..." is getting old.

 

Any PCI/PCIe slots to throw in a cheap, wider supported SATA controller?

[emosun]

1 minute ago, Legendarypoet said:

Any PCI/PCIe slots to throw in a cheap, wider supported SATA controller?

there's a lot of PCI-X slots , will the machine be able to detect the pci-x card and boot from it after windows has installed?

[Guest]

If it sees it during the install, it should not have a problem booting from it. Unless there's some sort of BIOS limitation, but I can't see that being the case as there are a ton or config that server could come it that would require different controller cards.

[emosun]

Just now, Legendarypoet said:

but I can't see that being the case as there are a ton or config that server could come it that would require different controller cards.

well the controller it's using now is part of the motherboard

it has two controllers , one for the hard drives and one for the basic slimline ide cd drive. I'm just worried it won't give the option to boot from a pcix card.

[Guest]

I have a couple of old controller cards I know work w/ 7. I could send whichever I have a duplicate of.

[emosun]

I'm going to try a few more things first and If i can't get it to work at all I might take you up on that