I have now got the monitor plug adaptor so I can play with the other Xeon workstation.
Problem number one is that Windows starts but doesn't find the keyboard or mouse. Booting into set up the keyboard works OK.
Keyboard & mouse work in safe mode, so hardware must be OK and it's a WIndows problem?
I don't have the Ctrl_Alt_Del p/w for this so I can't get much further.
I had a go with the password cracker (boots from a Linux CD) but it doesn't find any "partition containing hashes". I tried to figure it out but couldn't, but there was no sign of Linux seeing the two hard drives. These are 2 WD 160GB SATA drives which according to the BIOS setup are on the SAS controller. There was some reference to 'mounting the locations' (why don't they use English?) but I couldn't make any sense of it.
I wouldn't mind just installing Linux and ditching windows, I've never had a Linux PC. I'm downloading Mint 14 with MATE which seems to be the advised version for Neddies. Is that just going to install, or do I need to do something about the drive connections?
Well over my ears now :-)
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