hi all , i have a pe2900 with a drac 5 , all firmware/drivers updated and have been reading all the threads deeding updating the system, well it was all so easy in fact buy following most of the advice (disabling the drac etc ) it crashed the system ...
anyways the rig
2x 3.16 gig quad xeon e5460 12mb ea
48gb ddr2 ecc 800
PERC 6/I Integrated/ Adapter 512 and bbu ( borrowed from 6/e)
PERC 6/e external 512 and bbu (i'm soon to upgrade with a powervault md1000)
2x sas 1tb stripe for os
6x sas 2tb raid 5
1x 2tb sata on on-board controller for dead backups and log files
1x sata blueray burner
10gig fiber hba
1gig fiber hba
2x on-board nics teamed with 10gig and 1gig
DRAC 5 with all current firmware etc on out of band magement
NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 2gig ddr3 <-- linlk to card
and a pci sound card
it was all plug and play . literally DON'T DISABLE THE DRAC!!!! the snd i did the system stopped booting
I'm running server 2012 and have 4x hd ptz and 2x sdt def ptz camera's on it 24x7 record motion tracking and ptz etc main raid is just media for all the house 3x tv's, 2x xbox one ,3x blue rays, 5x computers (more when i host lans) , 4x tablets , 5x mobiles of all makes and models
the on-board video limitations are silly ... it routing from back to front of case on cable plug in ... and lets fase it a 16meg card is not even gui happy now-days (camera feeds aero etc etc) i also wanted the ability to put the camera system through hdmi > hdmi 4x splitter (3 to close tv's and one to a TCP/IP multicast transceiver for the other computers and smart tv's etc) and work on the local server with the rack kvm screen . i also needed space for customer backups when i work on there computers .
tip plug the video card into the pcie 8x slot and any other raid cards etc in the next slots along
it was all plug and play windows handles it all , load nvidia drivers and off you go onboard works along side nvdia and plays nice :) , GL all , hope it is as easy for you as it was for me .