Poweredge T610 idrac6 communication failure fix or motherboard replacement...
I have a T610 out at a customer that was built in February 2010. It's been running great forever, but they had some weird power outages and a UPS failure last week. Ever since, the fans are running...
View ArticlePowerEdge R330 server could not downgrade OS
Hello,I just purchased PowerEdge R330 for my office. it comes with pre-install Windows Server 2012 R2. However, I need to downgrade the OS as it's the requirement for some the software that need to be...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge T610 (E5520) support for DDR3 LV 1.35v DIMMS versus 1.5v DIMMs
The T610 documentation states that one needs the E5600 processor to take advantage of 1.35v LV DDR3 DIMMS. I however have the E5520 processor in my T610 and the documentation states support for 1.5v...
View ArticlePE T110 RAID is degraded. Unassigned and re-assigned global hot spare, no...
Hello everyone! As the title suggests, one of our clients has a PE T110. There was an extended power failure, which caused the server to shutoff.Now, the drive itself is still healthy, but it shows as...
View ArticleOMSA reports CPU 64-bit feature NOT Enabled
We are running Windows 2012 Server R2 64 Bit on a PE R410. Â Is there a BIOS Setting to Enable the full functionality of the 64 bit archicture? Â OMSA reports that the CPUs 64-bit feature is NOT Enabled
View ArticleR710 - Not booting - Amber lights on PS's after power button is pressed
I have an R710 and it originally booted fine out of the box. I was able to move freely within UEFI and BIOS. I shut it down to go out of town and when I returned and attempted to power it up, both PS's...
View ArticleR720XD spontaneous shutdown and controller/drive predictive failure warnings
Server has a PERC H710P mini controller with a RAID-10 virtual disk comprised of three spans of two drives each. This server has shut down twice on its own without any log evidence of distress. The...
View Articlesystem services require upgrade R610
I tried to update the iDRAC6 firmware on an R610 using the "firmimg.d6" file using the "racadm" command.The problem is that it is in a state of " a firmware update is currently in progress" and there...
View ArticleT320 Upgrade from S110 to H710 controller
I received the new H710 and installed it. Â I have 3 cabled hard drives and the cable I have doesn't fit the H710. Â Can someone tell me which cable I need to order?
View ArticlePE T310 CPU Fan at full speed & LCD Info Screen frozen.
Hi all,During the last restart, a PE T310 was completely frozen. After a hard restart the CPU fan runs at full speed and the LCD Info Screen is frozen (the display is solid blue but empty and the keys...
View ArticleWindows server 2008 - Virtualization - OEM - key mis-match
Hello I am trying to virtualize a server - which came with Windows 2008 server - OEM standard edition.After virtualizing it's prompting for activation.This machine came with windows 2008 server...
View ArticleDoes erasing a virtual disk really erase the contents?
Hi.I have a PERC S300 controller with a RAID 1 array of two 500GB disks. The drives were full so I cloned the drives to a new 1TB drive which appeared to work. I removed the two original drives, and...
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PE R410 16 GB memory upgrade - running out of ideas
I just bought 4x 16 GBÂ DDR3L 1333 PC3-10600R ECC Registered CL9 modules for my R410, but the server won't boot with the new memory installed. The screen is completely black. I see no signs of life.CPU:...
View ArticlePowerEdge R330 - HDD + SSD - howto boot from SSD
Hi all,Just trying to convince one of our R330 to boot from the SSD. I have BIOS Boot Mode enabled. However in System Bios -> Boot Sequence I have only HDD C:, and NIC Port 1 only options. System...
View ArticlePowerEdge R330 server could not downgrade OS
Hello,I just purchased PowerEdge R330 for my office. it comes with pre-install Windows Server 2012 R2. However, I need to downgrade the OS as it's the requirement for some the software that need to be...
View ArticlePoweredge T620 no video signal
Dear forum support,I recently ran into a problem at the organization I started working recently. I ran into a situation (which is a somewhat long story and complicated), but basically I created a...
View ArticleDoes erasing a virtual disk really erase the contents?
Hi.I have a PERC S300 controller with a RAID 1 array of two 500GB disks. The drives were full so I cloned the drives to a new 1TB drive which appeared to work. I removed the two original drives, and...
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ftp.dell.com decommissioned?
Hello all,Today we're trying to update the firmware on one of our old R710's, but we cannot seem to connect to ftp.dell.com via the lifecycle controller FTP firmware update.After much googling, I found...
View ArticleDell 2162DS Serial Port Access
Hello,I have been gifted a couple of Dell 2162DS KVM switches. One of them seems to have had a bad flash update, so I will need to access the Serial Console to correct this. The symptom is that I get...
View ArticleiDRAC 8 nagios plugin
Hi,We are running a few new PowerEdge servers (13th generation) with iDRAC 8 and we would like to monitor them with our existing Nagios environment....
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