installation. If you are prompted to reboot the server, click No. After the operating system installation is complete, download digitally signed drivers (http://www.hp.com/support/files).

Found New Hardware Wizard

The Found New Hardware Wizard might appear during the operating system installation. If this wizard appears, click Cancel.

IMPORTANT: Do not attempt to install the drivers during the operating system installation because the server might automatically reboot before the driver installation is completed. This action could result in the incorrect installation of a device.

To install drivers for unknown devices in device manager. After the operating system installation:

1.If your operating system is Windows Server 2008 R2 wSP1, click Start>All Programs> Administrative Tools>Computer Management.

If your operating system is Windows Server 2012 Standard, press Windows key from keyboard >Administrative Tools> Computer Management.

If your operating system is Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, click Start and then select Administrative Tools>Computer Management.

2.From the left column, select Device Manager.

3.Right-click the component displaying the yellow mark, and then select Update Driver Software.

4.Click Browse my computer for Driver option.

5.Enter the following path in the text box:

C:\Drivers

Select Include Subfolders.

6.Click Next.

7.To complete the Found New Hardware Wizard, click Close.

The setup process begins. Wait for the entire setup process to complete, including any requested restarts, before interrupting this process or powering down the server. After the setup process completes, you can configure the server.

IMPORTANT: The system might complete the driver installation after the first login. Do not perform any actions on the Initial Configuration Task screen. If additional drivers are loaded, the system completes the driver installation and automatically reboots next time system presents a login prompt, log in and use the new operating system.

Automatic configuration

Some steps of the setup process are automatically configured, and these configuration screens do not appear. For information about changing any preconfigured information, see the Operating system documentation. Automatically configured parameters that may require later changes include:

•Licensing mode – By default, the server licensing mode is set to per-device or per-user with a five device or user count. For information about licensing, see the online help or the Operating system documentation.

•Administrator password – The administrator password is provided by the user during initial setup. For procedures to change the administrator password after the installation is complete, see “Post-installation tasks” (page 22).

•Dynamic disk upgrade – The operating system is preinstalled on an approximately 20 GB partition. On an array controller, the logical drive size is set to the maximum size of the drive. The logical drive of array controllers contains 10 to 15 MB of available space to support a dynamic disk upgrade.

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