windows 2008 r2 active directory won't install

[thebobby1979]

I have a supermicro x7dwe motherboard with eight gigs of ram two quad core processors. i have been trying to install server 08r2 and it freexes sometimes in the active directory process it never gets any further i was wanting to know if i am doing something wrong or is it that this type of motherboard want accept server r2 standard or enterprise?

 

[noidea_77]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

 

[thebobby1979]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

it's a legal copy i just haven't activated it yet. it'll install and then just freeze up then a few minutes later it resumes and it seems like it takes forever to complet active directory setup but i have not yet seen a finished active directory yet im just wondering if i did something wrong.

 

[noidea_77]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

it's a legal copy i just haven't activated it yet. it'll install and then just freeze up then a few minutes later it resumes and it seems like it takes forever to complet active directory setup but i have not yet seen a finished active directory yet im just wondering if i did something wrong.

Well, it may take very long, because there is a lot to install. As long as you see disk activity, it's installing.

 

[thebobby1979]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

it's a legal copy i just haven't activated it yet. it'll install and then just freeze up then a few minutes later it resumes and it seems like it takes forever to complet active directory setup but i have not yet seen a finished active directory yet im just wondering if i did something wrong.

Well, it may take very long, because there is a lot to install. As long as you see disk activity, it's installing.

so even if it's taking at least an hour and a half just let it go? oh yeah my processors are some xeon L5335 quad cores there 2 GHz i have two of them on my server board shouldn't that more than enough meet the requirements i have 8 Gig of ram and 250 GB hard drive shouldn't this be more than enough for server 08 , server 08 R2?

 

[thebobby1979]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

it's a legal copy i just haven't activated it yet. it'll install and then just freeze up then a few minutes later it resumes and it seems like it takes forever to complet active directory setup but i have not yet seen a finished active directory yet im just wondering if i did something wrong.

Well, it may take very long, because there is a lot to install. As long as you see disk activity, it's installing.

so even if it's taking at least an hour and a half just let it go? oh yeah my processors are some xeon L5335 quad cores there 2 GHz i have two of them on my server board shouldn't that more than enough meet the requirements i have 8 Gig of ram and 250 GB hard drive shouldn't this be more than enough for server 08 , server 08 R2?

 

[noidea_77]

All drivers installed? Any exclamation marks in device manger? What do you mean by it "sometimes" freezes? Is it a legal copy and did you activate it?

it's a legal copy i just haven't activated it yet. it'll install and then just freeze up then a few minutes later it resumes and it seems like it takes forever to complet active directory setup but i have not yet seen a finished active directory yet im just wondering if i did something wrong.

Well, it may take very long, because there is a lot to install. As long as you see disk activity, it's installing.

so even if it's taking at least an hour and a half just let it go? oh yeah my processors are some xeon L5335 quad cores there 2 GHz i have two of them on my server board shouldn't that more than enough meet the requirements i have 8 Gig of ram and 250 GB hard drive shouldn't this be more than enough for server 08 , server 08 R2?

Well, the install may only use one core and the 250GB disk may be slow. Again: do you see disk activities?