Installing drivers for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials operating
system
To install drivers for the Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials operating system, refer to the related topics.
•
“Installing the driver for the chipset” on page 9
•
“Installing the driver for an Ethernet card” on page 13
•
“Installing the driver for an onboard graphics card” on page 5
•
“Installing the driver for a PCI or PCI Express card” on page 16
Note:
The driver for onboard USB 3.0 connectors is installed during the operating system installation.
Installing the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials
Aurora
This topic provides instructions on how to install the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011
Essentials Aurora and the device drivers.
Note:
Before installing this operating system, connect your server to the network.
To install the Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials Aurora, do the following:
1. Insert the operating system installation disc into the optical drive that you have set as the first startup
device. Connect the USB storage device that contains the driver for the onboard SATA software RAID
(or installed RAID card if your server is installed with a RAID card) to your server. Then, start the server
from the optical drive.
2. If the message
Press any key to boot from cd
is displayed, press any key. If the message
Windows Setup
[EMS Enabled]
is displayed, press Enter. Wait several minutes for the system to load the files.
3. In the Installing Windows window, select
New Installation
.
Note:
If your server has an operating system installed, there will be another option
Repair an Existing
Installation
. The following steps are based on the scenario that
New Installation
is selected in this step.
4. Click
Load drivers
and browse to the folder where the driver is stored. Click
OK
to load the driver.
5. Select
I understand that if I click Install, all files and folders on your primary hard drive will be
deleted
. Then, click
Install
to start the operating system installation. The Install Windows window is
displayed. Wait for a moment.
Note:
Disk partition cannot be performed. If the disk capacity is 2T, all the 2T capacity is used for
installing the operating system.
6. If the “Errors occurred during installation” window is displayed, connect the USB storage device that
contains the driver for the Ethernet card to your server.
7. Press Shift+F10, input the command
devmgmt.msc
, and then press Enter. The Device Manager window
is displayed.
8. Click
other devices
, right-click
Ethernet Controller
, and then click
Update Driver Software
➙
Browse
my computer for driver software
.
9. Browse to the folder where the driver is stored and click
OK
. Then, click
Next
to load the driver.
10. After the driver is loaded, click
Close
. Go back to the command window and close it.
11. In the “Errors occurred during installation” window, click
Restart
to restart your server.
12. When the “Windows Small Business Server 2011” window is displayed, configure the language and
other options as you need, and then click
Next
.
13. In the “Verify the date and time settings” window, configure the date and time. Then, click
Next
.
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