R820 does not display 4 processors PEM installation
I recently purchased an R820 Server from EBay. I also purchased a PEM and 2 additional CPUs. After installing CPUs and memory on the PEM, I found that not only does Bios not show 4 Processors, but...
View ArticleHow to install Windows Server 2012 R2 in PE 2950 without double-layer DVD drive?
Hi,I have to reinstall O/S in a PE 2950. I saw that Windows Server 2012 R2 is supported in this server. So I'm thinking about using this O/S.I'm using SBUU to install the O/S. It asks me to insert...
View ArticleDell Poweredge 2850 LCD Issues
This one has me a little stumped. I received my Dell Poweredge 2850 today and while it works fine, the LCD on the front does not work. It originally came with the original firmwares and such. I've...
View ArticleBest Performance CPU upgrade for a R900
I currently have an R900 with the following specs: Intel Xeon X7460 @ 2660 MHz. Having 4 CPUs with 6 cores it gives me 24 cores.I was wondering if there is any better upgrade than this CPU. I know the...
View ArticleDell Enterprise Hardware & Software Updates, October 16-20
Popular DownloadsOpenManage EnterpriseOpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 8.5Support Live Image (SLI) 2.2SupportAssist Enterprise 1.1Servers & StorageHGST SATA firmware KV35 (see applicable...
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PE 2850 - Black Goopy Substance Where Little Black Pyramid Thing Used to Be
We have an old 2850 we are going to setup for a small client of ours, but this morning we noticed there is some kind of black goop on the motherboard (picture attached), its sticky and takes a good...
View ArticleDell poweredge c6145 Bare bones home build : Need urgent help is anyone out...
Hello I am doing a barebones home build on a dell c6145.I need to get it turned on with a working hard disc, power supply, and pcie slots to plug in gpu.I have the MB, ram, 4 opteron cpu, psu and a few...
View ArticlePoweredge t430 possible puncture?
A few weeks ago, our t430 experienced some pretty fun drive failure issues, while I was away on vacation.My coworkers were able to get the server repaired and back up and running. However, today, I...
View ArticleChassis Management Controller CMC 6.0
Hi,Under Compatible Systems, several blade models are listed for this release.Does that mean if a blade model is not listed it will have problems if the chassis is updated form 5.22 to 6.0? e.g....
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R 630 + CentOS 6 x86 + 4K drives + LifeCycle 2.4.3
Hello,I am trying to install CentOS on Dell PowerEdge R 630 in Bios mode but when after the installation, it does not boot from disk. When i check in bios Ctrl+R, I do not see the hard disk listed (or...
View ArticleM520 in VRTX
We had a strange outage and now two of our M520 blades in the VRTX just show the iDrac Booting on the display on the VRTX. Whether this problem is related to the fact that the CMC is showing redundancy...
View ArticleServer OOW PowerEdgeT420 - Non-Critical Error
After recently replacing a Physical Disk on a Connector 0 (RAID), the disk is now online and spun up however we are still seeing a Non-Critical error appearing on the following component within Dell...
View ArticleT20 with Windows 10
HiI have been given a Poweredge T20 and have successfully installed my copy of Windows 10 and Office 365, all seems great.As I am using it for a workstation rather than a server, is there any changes...
View Articlegraphics cards in R720???
Hi, I currently came across a Power Edge R720 that I'm going to turn into a LimeTech UN-Raid gaming server. But the manual doesn't clarify very much besides it can support up to 4 graphics cards...
View ArticleSupport for VT-d/ACS on new R740 with Xeon Gold 6126
Hi all,We would like to purchase the new Poweredge R740s.The new Xeon Gold 6126 does not state support for VT-d, while the older CPU say they do. While VT-d is supposed to be a chipset feature, I'm not...
View ArticleR210 II - Increasing Frequent Rebooting After Long Uptime
Hi,I have an R210 II running pfSense 2.4 which runs perfectly for anytime between a few days and a month before experiencing a random reboot. After this initial crash, the reboots become increasingly...
View ArticleRecently bought a 1850 and not getting any video output
So I recently bought a 1850 off of eBay to play around with. But when I tried posting I get no video output, mind you all the fans are working and I'm not getting any beep codes. I tried reseating the...
View ArticlePoweredge 2650 Embedded Server Management Error
Hello all. I'm hoping someone can help us. We have 2 Poweredge 2650 and they've been great for 14 years. One is now given us boot trouble and it has vital data on it that apparently wasn't getting...
View ArticleHow to disable ss/web on idrac7 with Basic Management (no idrac license)?
I have a Dell R320 Server. I need to disable ssh/web access to this server becase of PCI DSS compliance.It isn't a IDRAC Enterprise and it doesn't allow to use rcadm command to disable the web / ssh...
View ArticleUpgrading Poweredge T410
I have the Dell Poweredge T410. I am relatively new to computers/servers so Ihad a few questions about upgrading. The upload/download speeds to my server are VERY slow, what components do I replace/add...
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