I bought a used T5400 with the idea of using it for 3d graphics and rendering due to the dual Xeon processors and 32GB ram.
It came without a video card so I installed a Geforce Nvidea card which seems to work fine so far.
But I cannot seem to install Win 7 on the machine. It has a HDD which does not seem to work even connected to another machine so I put in a spare SATA 250GB drive which will be just fine for the OS. (Can add another later)
I think I turned off RAID as I don't need or want that for this purpose.
I made an iso for the OS and added a folder /drivers and put copies of all the drivers I could find here on DELL for Vista 64 as I could find nothing for Win7.
Install halts when I try to locate drivers. It just tells me no suitable drivers found.
A search of Google says many ppl are running Win7 pro on this machine but they all talk about drivers for RAID etc. and I cannot find info on what specific drivers I must have on the disk to be able to install Win7.
I guess I can put Linux on the box but then I have to run WINE or similar to run my graphics program. (There is a native luxrender for linux so I could just slave this box but reallty want Win7 on it so I can use it stand alone.)
Any help appreciated in installing Win 7 Pro 64 bit on this machine.
Thanks