I finally decided that this thing needed to be dealt with today, and that the fight would likely be EPIC.  So i pulled the card with the trouble battery, took some pictures and sent it around for lulz and to attempt to identify it.  I still don’t know what it does, but when I put it back in it worked, so wtf ever.

SO i tried to run ServeRAID, and it was giving me a fit about bios/firmware/drv not being the same version.  Since I already had the error, I went ahead downloaded the latest bios/firmware update for the card (7.12.something).  Then I finally found some boot floppys, and I went to boot from them and discovered the floppy is full of fail.  Wouldn’t read or boot from it at all.

SO with the magic of Nero, I made some cd’s and tricked the bitch into thinking they were floppy’s, and got it updated.  Then after much digging and pulling of hair, I found the drivers for windows setup to load, and it actually worked.

Now that it’s all installed, I’ve discovered that windows update is the slowest website ever created in the history of man.  I’ve almost completely installed Win2k3 on another server while this stupid thing scans for updates.

God I hate you microsoft.

Digital fireplace, originally uploaded by ABLE-X.

Only decent way to have a fireplace in vegas