DRAC 5 Issue
I have a dell poweredge 2950 with a drac 5 and when i plug the server in the drac looks fine with both lights lighting up bat after a few seconds one light flashes and the drac disconnects
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950 V3 Graphics Card and DRAC?
Hello, I have recently been given two Dell PowerEdge 2950 V3 servers from my college and need a question answered about whether I can have a graphics card in along with the DRAC. I know the normal...
View ArticleGuidance Diagnosing PCIe Slot or Motherboard Failure
We have a Dell T110 that has been running 24/7 for the past 6 years as a point of sale server. Because it runs proprietary software, we are forced to use a 32 bit version of Windows 2003. However, I...
View ArticlePowerEdge SC1430 2nd SATA HD problem
Hi, i am having problems when i want to install a second SATA HD on my PowerEdge. I have a 120 GB SSD installed on SATA 0 (blue conector) and when i install a second HD on SATA 1 port ( 320 GB HD) the...
View Articlenvme sdd on t630
I own a dell server t630 without pcie flash hardware. How do I own two nvme sdd samsung xs1715 which of dell hardware need to provide how would these two ssd drives can I use in dell t630? Or non dell...
View ArticleR710 fan pin layout
Hello All,I have a R710 motherboard that needs fans. I do not have the server case, I do not have the original fans or the fan chassis. However, I do have two CPU coolers. I would love to use them, but...
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R910 Leaked/Burned component
Good morning,I have just opened up our R910 for maintenance and have noticed that one of the components beneath the heatsink for CPU 3 has evidence of heat damage as well as a liquid that seems to have...
View ArticlePowedge T420 idrac Issue
hii have a poweredge t420 which is out of warrranty with the dreaded idrac issue. it just sits there initilizing and after a while reboots with the fans on full blast.at this stage there is no display....
View ArticlePowerEdge R630 - CPU 1 has an internal error (IERR).
HelloI have a problem with my PowerEdge R630Operating system is - VMware ESXi 6.0.0 build-2494585All was working fine during 1.5 year, but yesturday it was stoped.But when starting it again, after 3-4...
View ArticlePOWER Edge T610
I have a T610 7 years and one month old, it is beeping every 30 - 60 seconds, and what appears to be a blue(ish) light is on on the back panel just above the NIC ports, and I think below a reset button...
View Articler910 problems on lcd front display and fans speed
Hi, I have a r910 server that was functioning normally until a few days ago.Today I get to my office and all fans are working at full speed.I tried to shut down the server from the operating system,...
View ArticlePowerEdge M520 support Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0?
Hi,I have a Dell PowerEdge M520 Server and I realize that my TPM version is 1.2. Is there any way that I can upgrade to TPM 2.0? This is because I want to run Windows server 2016.Thanks,Alan
View ArticlePowerEdge R610 Power auto-recovery set to last but auto-started
Last week we had a scheduled power outage and a PowerEdge R610 Rev II BIOS 6.4.0 was shutdown from within Windows 2008 R2 cleanly.Power was cut for electrical work and then restored about an hour...
View ArticleDell Enterprise Hardware & Software Updates, October 10-14
Popular DownloadsDell Server E-Support Tool (DSET) 3.7Dell Support Live Image (SLI) 2.2OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 8.3OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.2Servers & StorageBroadcom NetXtreme-E...
View ArticleR620 - NIC firmware won't install
Howdy,My server is showing that our Intel Gigabit 4P I350-t rNDC network cards have a Firmware version of 0.0.0. (see attachment) The latest version is 17.5.10. Normally when I see this I can just...
View Articleftp.dell.com asking for username and password through lifecycle controller
Is this a current issue?All the documentation i see says to not provide a username and password.
View ArticleRaid 1 PowerEdge 2650 problem
Hello everyone,I have 3 PowerEdge 2650 where I set raid 1.Now a disk is broken and I had to replace it but the problem is that it does not automatically start the rebuild. In the bios, PERC 3/Di, there...
View ArticlePoweredge R710 compatible new SAS HDD
Hello!Does the R710 server support the new generation 12G SAS hard disk drives? Can I use 400-AJSB drive in Poweredge R710? We used 400-ADPE, but it went wrong, and now it is unobtainable.Best regards:...
View ArticleIs it possible to run the motherboard RAID and controller card RAID at the...
Hi This is what I was trying to do: We took a bare bones Dell PowerEdge T20 with 4 SATA ports and added a 2 port SATA controller card (AS media ASM1061R SATA III host controller) so that we could:1....
View ArticleR710 Memory Upgrade problems
We currently have R710 single CPU server that came with 4GB of memory. Two 2GB 1Rx8 sticks in slots A2 and A3. BIOS 6.4.We purchased four 8GB 2Rx4 to upgrade to 32GB of memory.I did an extensive...
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