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GuruX · 12-10-2008, 06:01 PM

First things first: Is your router set up to use DHCP to give each PC an IP address? It needs to be set up this way for the Windows Home Server to work.

The EX475 is a Windows Home Server computer -- it's based on Windows Server 2003, rather than XP Pro. Furthermore, HP doesn't support adding more memory to the server (which you may have discovered after seeing how hard it was to access the RAM modules in the first place).

One thing you can try doing is to click Start > Run, then type "cmd" (without the quotes) and press ENTER. From the command prompt, type the following:

ping HPSERVER

You should get a response from it. If you get an error that Windows cannot find "HPSERVER" then there's either a network issue, or it's not even booting up (might be hard to tell, since I'm not sure if this server even has a VGA output.

12-10-2008, 06:01 PM	#8
GuruX Rear Admiral Lower Half Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Calgary Alberta Canada Posts: 2,369	First things first: Is your router set up to use DHCP to give each PC an IP address? It needs to be set up this way for the Windows Home Server to work. The EX475 is a Windows Home Server computer -- it's based on Windows Server 2003, rather than XP Pro. Furthermore, HP doesn't support adding more memory to the server (which you may have discovered after seeing how hard it was to access the RAM modules in the first place). One thing you can try doing is to click Start > Run, then type "cmd" (without the quotes) and press ENTER. From the command prompt, type the following: ping HPSERVER You should get a response from it. If you get an error that Windows cannot find "HPSERVER" then there's either a network issue, or it's not even booting up (might be hard to tell, since I'm not sure if this server even has a VGA output. __________________ I reject your reality and substitute my own. - Adam Savage