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BIOS logo/status bar missing from initial startup
Folks,Recently purchased 2 R710's from eBay and thought all was going well until I powered up the 2nd server. The first thing I noticed right away was the Dell logo and status bar upon BIOS boot were...
View ArticleIDrac Warnings
Hi there,we are running a PowerEdge R730 remotely on a campus of university abroad.We have iDRAC 8. I access via web interface.Lately I got weekly at the week end warning messages like the...
View ArticleiDRAC 8 Remote presence port cipher issues
We recently purchase a R930 with iDRAC 8. We are running the latest available update from the download page for the device (2.41.40.40). We have set the web page up to use TLSv1.2 only with a minimum...
View ArticlePoweredge T110 II Memory issue
Hi folks. I had a broken 2gb dimmI thougt I buy one dimm of 8GB and replace all the other dimms8gb Crucial Ddr3 1600 Udimm Pc (PC3-12800)CAS 111.35VNON-ECC1600 MT/SUDIMMI put the dimm in the slot but...
View ArticleReplace Hard Drive on PERCH710 PowerEdge R520
I have a PowerEdge R520 with 6, 600 GB SAS drives in RAID5 running as VM host for critical SP and ERP servers. Last week the server crashed. I went to the data center and found out that one of the six...
View ArticleQuad Core CPU upgrade in a PowerEdge 6950??
We're trying to upgrade our PowerEdge 6950 with 4x AMD Opteron 8387 CPUs, but I can't get it to boot. I've tried one, two, and four CPUs. They're all matched, and we've made sure the RAM is good.Any...
View ArticleAdd USB3.0 card to T430
I added a card to add more USB3 ports to my T430 and it appears to cause random system crashes and reboots. It is a powered card from inateck: 7-Port USB 3.0 PCI-E Card KTU3FR-5O2UAre there any...
View ArticleC6300 Disk partitioning...
We are contemplating purchasing one used PE C6300 chassis with three C6320 compute blocks. 1. Can anyone describe how one allocates hard drives in the 24-HDD collection to each compute block? Are...
View ArticleDell SSDSC2BB480G7R (#64TMJ) SSD firmware update on Poweredge R710 with Perc...
Hello,I recently installed 2x SSDSC2BB480G7R SSD drives on a PowerEdge R710.Those drives are the certified DELL version (part number 64TMJ), not the corresponding OEM Intel S3520 drives.The server has...
View Articleracadm remote image from share that doesn't have a username or password
Hello,I am trying to upload an iso image from an NFS location that does not need a username and password. I am able to upload it via Virtual Console GUI but not with racadm.By providing a dummy...
View ArticleR810 H700 unable to see the HDD to wipe raid partition
Hello to all,I have a r810 server with 6 SAS HDD 450GB.I have made the install of esxi and I saw that the HDD wasn't showing in the software so I enter to the H700 controller to setup the VDs. I made...
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R620 network update failes
HII have now to R620 that failes the update to the Network Card. Please see the attachment.Intel(R) Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t...
View ArticleIDrac Warnings
Hi there,we are running a PowerEdge R730 remotely on a campus of university abroad.We have iDRAC 8. I access via web interface.Lately I got weekly at the week end warning messages like the...
View ArticleiDRAC 8 Remote presence port cipher issues
We recently purchase a R930 with iDRAC 8. We are running the latest available update from the download page for the device (2.41.40.40). We have set the web page up to use TLSv1.2 only with a minimum...
View ArticleIntel NIC firmware updates that work with 2K16 please!!
We have Secure Boot enabled in our environment as a standard, but we also have some PowerEdge M630s with Intel X520 Mezz cards installed whose firmware is old enough not to have a signed boot ROM,...
View ArticleQuad Core CPU upgrade in a PowerEdge 6950??
We're trying to upgrade our PowerEdge 6950 with 4x AMD Opteron 8387 CPUs, but I can't get it to boot. I've tried one, two, and four CPUs. They're all matched, and we've made sure the RAM is good.Any...
View Articleracadm remote image from share that doesn't have a username or password
Hello,I am trying to upload an iso image from an NFS location that does not need a username and password. I am able to upload it via Virtual Console GUI but not with racadm.By providing a dummy...
View ArticleIssues with Poweredge R810 and NUMA nodes.
We have two R810's in our Disaster Relief center for backup SQL nodes in case our office goes down. Both have 4x Xeon E7-4830's and 64GB of DDR3. One server (lets refer to it as Server A) has Node...
View ArticleO/S critical stop / shutdown sensor 0x00 Critical stop during O/S run
error code 2900:0221Im getting this error when running diagnostics... What is it ?Also, Im getting the front panel light (the one system health indicator) is blinking orange... How can i know what's...
View ArticlePoweredge T110 II Memory issue
Hi folks. I had a broken 2gb dimmI thougt I buy one dimm of 8GB and replace all the other dimms8gb Crucial Ddr3 1600 Udimm Pc (PC3-12800)CAS 111.35VNON-ECC1600 MT/SUDIMMI put the dimm in the slot but...
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