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Server 2003 Install gone Awry... help!

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ianbergman

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So, in-place upgrade of a Win NT 4.0 server to Server 2003. Hardware should all be compatibel, everything looks good, but on reboot during the install phase when it works from the hard drive, we'll get the "windows server" loading screen and then a blue screen that will flash away so quickly we can't do anything.

Anyone know if there's a way to see what this blue screen is giving us? Without that info, we have been unable to troubleshoot this upgrade, and it will make us sad if we have to rebuild our primary DC from backups.

We can boot into safe mode, by the way, but we can't do anything -- just get a message that says setup is unable to continue in safe mode, rebooting now. Seems obvious that there's a hardware issue, but we can't for the life os uf figure out what -- al that's in there is the mobo, mem, processor, PCI video card, SCSI card.
 
You could try the install of 2003 again using the repair/recovery option. We've successfully upgraded from 2000 -> 2003, but not from NT (haven't tried). My bet is unless you find an answer quick it's going to take longer to troubleshoot the upgrade install than simply fresh installing. If you have multiple DC's hopefully the impact while you rebuild the one that's hosed will be minimal.
 
What type of scsi card are you using? Did you consider trying a full install instead of an upgrade? From my experience NT4 upgrades never work right.
 
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