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Dell Poweredge T410 Server

September 4, 2017, 1:21 am
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I recently acquired an incomplete  Dell T410 Poweredge Server box, (Service Tag <Service tag removed>) with only the Motherboard, but no Hard Drive/s, Power Supply, DIMMS etc. The Box and Motherboard is like new and i am of the opinion that the components were taken out to install in another server, but I am not sure because the rest is as new

I am now trying to establish what needs to be installed to get it running again. 

Can someone assist me with the correct specifications and how to install them as I am not a hardware specialist!

Here's my email if needed <Email id removed>

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PE2950 - Custom storage card

September 4, 2017, 3:59 am
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Hi to all.

I would like to replace our PERC 6/i with a different HBA.

I've tryied to put in a Supermicro AOC-S3008L-L8e with proper cables (SFF-8643 to SFF-8484) but no disks are reconized. Also, disk are kepth powered down.

Any vendor lock-in in the backplane? How can I change the card with an HBA ?

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Poweredge R815 No Post Issue

September 4, 2017, 5:47 pm
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Short story, server was dropped multiple times by FEDEX in shipment, Sisterboard(and power supplies) suffered unrepairable damage and I had to order a replacement.

System does not POST even with replacement sisterboard. From the idrac ,

I'm getting a Post Code 0x0 and no screen(with a known good screen) it goes into sleep mode.

I'm not sure what else to do to try to fix this I've brought it down to one Processor and one Memory Stick.... Though with the extent of the damage I may need to reseat the CPU as the dropping FEDEX did was hard enough to place the back handle inside the enclosure and move the little handles to the inside of the power supplies.

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GTX 1080 Ti GPU on Dell Servers

September 4, 2017, 10:09 pm
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I am planning to build a workstation for scientific computing (deep learning) and buy a GTX 1080 Ti GPU. Are there any workstations supporting GTX 1080 Ti?

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poweredge t420 cpld version 100 hang

September 4, 2017, 11:03 pm
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My T420 hangs after this displays. Any ideas?

Hank

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CONTRATO DE SOPORT

September 5, 2017, 12:26 am
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Buenos días

Quería saber el numero de contrato de SOPORTE al que estaba adscrito el servidor 7V0LT02.

GRacias

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Poweredge T310 Memory Upgrade

September 5, 2017, 2:10 am
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Hey.

I purchased an old T310 for basic home server uses and decided to upgrade the memory from 4GB to 16GB. I have the Xeon X3430 CPU, and currently have this RAM installed (The two without the heatspreader) but then I purchased this RAM to replace the current memory but when I installed them in the correct slots (1&2 and 3&4 I think?) or any of the slots, the system did not post.

Do I have the wrong memory here or is it DOA?

Any advice would be great.

Thanks,

David.

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Poweredge T620 iRDAC initialization error SWC0700

September 5, 2017, 9:05 am
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Hi all, 

Does this mean the motherboard has to be replaced?

Thanks

Tim

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Poweredge M520

September 5, 2017, 7:20 pm
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I get this error "user disabled by cmc" when ever I put on my server I have tried the 

To enable the front panel using the CMC Web interface, go to iKVM > Setup tab, select the Front Panel USB/Video Enabled option, and click Apply to save the setting.

but it didnt work, so i resorted to use Remote Desktop to access the server when ever it comes on but now, I am nt able to access the Server via Remote Desktop because it dosen't come up anymore. On the Idrac web interface, I see the "The system board battery has failed" error. Is there anyway i can rectify this?

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Poweredge R410 No Display

September 6, 2017, 10:05 am
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I just recently got a PE r410 and on the first time turning it on I got no display output. The fans spun up pretty fast and i waited a few minutes, but still nothing. Any suggestions?

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SD card slot on R530/430? How can I use it?

September 6, 2017, 10:05 am
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Howdy,

I noticed there is an SD card slot on the back of our latest servers.  It has a wrench on it so I'm not sure if it's a normal card slot or not.

I tried putting a card in there but nothing shows up in Windows.  I saw some things about having to enable it in System Settings but I didn't see any settings when I looked around.

Can anyone let me know what this card slot is for?  We want to put a Windows Image on it so if we ever have to rebuild a server we don't have to go find a CD or plug in a USB drive.  I don't know if we can use it for that or not.

I think our x20 models also had a slot but it was in the front.  Do those work the same way?

Any guidance would be great.

Thanks.

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Last chance for Dell server - cannot get enough support

September 7, 2017, 8:19 am
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Hi,

A new customer of mine has a 3 yr old Dell server that the hard drive failed on (no raid at all, ugh).  I ordered in a replacement drive but cannot get the OS to load on it.  I have posted a few times here but never get enough info from ideas here to get past the problem.  The support had run out on the server so I have no good options except this forum.

Here is my message thread and right at the bottom you can see I am stuck again.  Have put hours into this and am ready to tell the client to just buy a new server -  which is a shame as it is just a backup server that is not that old.

In short, it always seems to fail either on not having the drivers or perhaps something to do with the partitions (sorry, but I do not understand the "PBR" error noted below).

Finally, it would be nice if someone from support stuck with this thread until I indicate it is resolved.

Thanks.

>>>>> first post (removed intro) >>>>>>


- boot to F10, Unified Server Configurator

- then Deployment, OS Deployment

- it prompts to select driver source and I figured out that I needed to download a CD called "DELL EMC LIFECYCLE CONTROLLER OS DRIVER PACKS DVD VERSION 17.07.00" and put this on a USB

- I picked "use CD/DVD/USB" and it found the stick and then put in "Repository" as the drivers are within that folder

- it prompted for the OS choice and I chose Win Server 2008 SP2

- it failed with an error "unable to copy driver files"

B) I then rebooted with the the Dell Windows Server 2012 Foundation" disk that I had (I did not use this at first as a previous post reply suggested that this 3 yr old server did not have the drivers for 2012)

- it came up to "deploy OS" and then it said it would reboot the system and finally it said to click to finish the installation" (there might have been other prompts along the way)

- this time it failed with "Loading PBR for descriptor 1...done" and then right after "Bad PBR signature"

>>>>>>> (response from Dell Support, Chris H ) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Thank you. You can update the Lifecycle Controller via the F10 at startup, then Platform Update , from there you can run the Platform update and then point to that file.

Chris

>>>>>>>>>> (my last response ) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hi Chris,

When I boot into F10, there is  unfortunately no "Platform Update" option - only OS deployment, Hardware diagnostics, USC settings and about.  The UEFI ver is 2.1; the USC ver is 1.5.5.18.

The download file for updating the Life cycle Controller Legacy is an exe file that needs to be run from Windows - but I cannot boot to windows.

So it seems I am stuck as cannot update the Lifecycle Controller and without that, it seems I cannot install the OS?  Next ideas?

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PowerEdge R710 Dual/multi boot options?

September 7, 2017, 1:13 pm
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I'm new to Dells. I have an R710 with VMware ESXi 6.5 (a bare-metal hypervisor) currently booting from a drive in drive slot 0 [defined as virtual disk 0 in the PERC console]. This works fine for the VMware VMs I need to run.

I now have an additional need to run several Hyper-V VMs under Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter - if possible I'd like to define another virtual disk [virtual disk 1] in the PERC6 mgmt console and selectively boot from it as well. Is this possible? 

If the above is not, are there any other workable options? I guess I could swap different disk caddies into slot 0, but that seems clunky. 

Thanks for any thoughts on this - Tom

PERC 6/i - firmware rev 1.22.32-1371

iDRAC6 firmware rev 1.95.05
R710 Bios 6.4.0

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10TB drive on R420 server

September 7, 2017, 8:36 pm
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Is it possible to Mount a 10Tb drive on Dell R420 server using Cento os as a Operating system ?

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T320 H710 - Windows Server Issues

September 8, 2017, 10:24 am
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Hi,

I'm currently trying to set up my T320 with a H710 card.

I have 8 disks currently configured and being detected by the controller, with Windows Server 2016 already installed (along with the other disks having data on them), I have set up 7x Virtual Disks in RAID0 and another SSD as a cachedisk, however it won't boot into Windows (No boot device available) - I have set the SSD with Windows on to be the boot device within the H710 and set the H710 to be a boot device with priorty #1 under Hard Drives C:

I can plug the drives into the onboard SATA controller and they work fine, but not when being pushed through the H710.

Please help!

Thanks

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PowerEdge r320 - SWC 0700 Error

September 8, 2017, 2:57 pm
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Hi all, 

I am currently struggling to find a solution for the 'SWC0700: iDRAC is not ready' error. The error started occurring when we had to take off the server from a battery backup, due to the backup making an odd buzzing noise. Upon rebooting the server, the iDRAC no longer responds. The 'i' button on the back of the server is now blinking amber. The BIOS gets stuck temporarily when trying to initialize IDRAC (and eventually returns an alert), after it has initialized the memory. Once it gets past that state, and to the point where we would normally be able to CTRL+E into the iDRAC settings, we get the error code above. The iDRAC settings, as well as the Lifecycle Controller are inaccessible.

We never used the remote functionality of the iDRAC. The only issue we have now, since it has stopped working, is the ridiculously loud fans that are no longer controlled. 

I have tried two solutions in an attempt to get it to work again. The first being pressing the 'i' buttons on the front and back for the specified amount of time to reset the iDRAC. The other being powering off the server, removing the PSU cord, and draining the flea power. Neither have worked.

I am not sure where to progress now. I am trying to avoid replacing the motherboard. I have looked through these forums for the same issue. Some of the posts just end up with people having to replace the motherboard, being able to restart the iDRAC with no other issues, or just never replying. I figured it'd be worth it to post anyways.

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RAM upgrade in Dell R710

September 9, 2017, 7:14 pm
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Hello,

I recently acquired a used Dell R710 from a small business in town. I found that the server only had one processor (Xeon 5530) and 12G DDR3 RAM (6 x 2GB 2Rx8 PC3-8500E-7-10-e0). I was looking into upgrading the RAM on that machine.

Going through EBay, I found people selling DDR3 but the trailing numbers after clock speeds (i.e., latency) is different.

This is what I am getting on EBay: 4GB 4Rx8 PC3-8500R-7-10-H0.

Please help me decide if I can upgrade the system from "2GB 2Rx8 PC3-8500E-7-10-e0" memory to "4GB 4Rx8 PC3-8500R-7-10-H0" memory.

My main purpose for this build will be high performance computing like building neural nets and AI. At the same time I am also looking to buy another Xeon 5300 to go in the 2nd socket that is empty.

Please help me decide if I can replace the RAM and suggest the maximum amount of RAM I can place in the system(my research says 288GB).
Help Appreciated
Many thanks.

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Issues with updating firmware/BIOS on R710

September 10, 2017, 7:12 pm
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Hello

im having issues updating my BIOS on R710 Gen1 Board 3.5" form-factor

i was updating the my server using the LCC and chose update everything

after half an hour the server rebooted and was stuck in "starting unified controller"

so i rebooted the server and now it will not launch USC.

also i see some of my dimms are being disabled on CPU2 side

i have these images to show issues"http://imgur.com/a/A456X"

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Dell PE T410 System Halted E1000 failsafe voltage error

September 11, 2017, 12:05 am
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Hello,

We have a server Dell PE T410. Its giving some error for sometimes being like...

1. E1410
2. E171F PCI Slot 4
3. E1422 CPU2 Machine check
For the above errors I have already try to boot the server in minimum POST, Cleaning dust resetting PCIe RAID card riser, RAM, CPU Backpanel also with swapping both CPU and PSU.
But After all this when i try too boot the server Its showing E1000 failsafe voltage error. Now I cant boot the server :'(.

Masudul

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Server Dell PowerEdge R210 SSD

September 11, 2017, 2:54 am
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Good afternoon! My name is Vlad, and I had a question about updating HDD to SSD of the Dell brand server at work.  We want to put two (RAID 1) samsung 850 pro Therefore, I have a couple of questions:


Is it advisable to put SSD it in this server?

- How do I do this without reinstalling the server? Maybe "cloning" disk ? 

We have a RAID controller Dell PERC H200 Here are the characteristics of the server:  Dell PowerEdge R210 Server Processor Intel Xeon Quad-Core X3430 (2.4 GHz) HDD SATA 7.2 2 by 500GB

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