DELL R710 Mix memory PCL3-10600 & 12800
Hi,We own in our company a R710 Dell Server with 24 Gb PCL3-10600 memory. We recently request our supplier for an upgrade of 16Gb (2 x 8Gb). The supplier gave us 2 x 8Gb PCL-12800 memory mduleWhen the...
View ArticleHow to run RACADM RACRESETCFG on Dell 2850 gen.II
Sorry for my dumb questions, but I'm new in such equipment.I have a notebook, and the server.How do I run this command? I need to reset DRAC password.I have OMSA installed on the notebook, but I cannot...
View Articlefailed to update dell poweregde r610 with usb stick
Hi i just tried to upated my server r610 [View:www.youtube.com/watch] following this tutorial from Dell.com but when i select the usb stick on the server shows No update available, but my bios etc are...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge VRTX Enclosure Owner's Manual Link Broken
The link under Product Support for VRTX servers is broken for the enclosure owner's manual.Link: ftp.dell.com/.../poweredge-vrtx_Owner%27s%20Manual_en-us.pdf From:...
View ArticleESM Firmware Invalid Package Signature
I am using OpenManage Essentials to update a newly installed "non-compliant" PowerEdge R510 server.The server is running OMSA x64 7.4.0-866 A00 on Windows 2008 fully patched.I have the latest catalog...
View ArticlePERC H700 firmware and driver update
This is hopefully an easy answer, but I have a firmware and driver update for my PERC H700 and wondering which should be installed first? Does it even matter?
View ArticleHow to recover from reported failure of multiple drives while system powered...
Hello,I had a logical drive failure on a PowerEdge 2600 I recently inherited and I am hoping to get some suggestions on how to fix it.System was configured with 6 disk drives as a single RAID 5 logical...
View ArticlePCIe information from dmidecode in Linux
Hi,I have a Dell R630 running Suse Enterprise 11. According to the manual there should be 2 x16 slots and 1 x8 slot. However when I run dmidecode, i see the following Type: x16 PCI Express 3Current...
View ArticleT620 w/ H710P Adapter - Getting MultiBit ECC Errors during high write loads
One of my T620's with H710P adapters has crashed 3 consecutive weekends in a row when it was receiving lots of data (dozens of VHD files) to be written. The system is Raid-5 with 5 SAS 600GB disks.I...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2950 won't boot or accept OS download
I bought a used Dell PowerEdge 2950 T1910 Intrusion. I did not realize that it did not come with an OS. Normally it appears that Dell sells them with a OS windows 2003 or 2008 but I guess thelast owner...
View ArticlePower Edge T310 RAID problems
I have a T310 server, and the RAID is being reported as degraded when rebooting. I've run Dell Online Diagnostics, and I'm getting a failure on the controller X test, and a read failure on one of the...
View ArticleServer and DRAC in OME Device tree
HelloWe are running OpenManage Essentials (OME) v2.0.1.2222 in a Windows domain. I have a Windows Server 2008 PowerEdge R420 and have added the sever (SNMP only) and DRAC (SNMP and WS-MAN) to the...
View ArticleWindows 2012 R2 installation issue on PowerEdge R520
I am trying to install Windows 2012 R2 on PowerEdge R520 server, but boot from USB is not working. I have copied OS software and made as bootable USB ( with Windows 7 boot utility) and tested on 64 bit...
View ArticlePE R710, firmware, 870 watt power supplies, how to obtain
This is regarding a Dell PowerEdge model R710 that has two 870 watt power supplies. Upon replacement of a failed power supply, the LifeCycle controller reported there were different versions of power...
View ArticlePE T410 Motherboard change.
I swapped out an OH19HD (BIOS 1.12.0) motherboard with an ON151GP, with BIOS 1.9.0 due to issues with the the embedded S100 controller and processor pwr managemant . I no longer have a service tag...
View ArticlePoweredge 2900 HDD5 fault leading to operating system loss
Help! I have a Poweredge 2900 which has multiple problems and dont know the best way to fix it hopefully without losing vital data.It started with HDD5 fault which wasn't noticed, I then was unable to...
View ArticleDELL R710 Mix memory PCL3-10600 & 12800
Hi,We own in our company a R710 Dell Server with 24 Gb PCL3-10600 memory. We recently request our supplier for an upgrade of 16Gb (2 x 8Gb). The supplier gave us 2 x 8Gb PCL-12800 memory mduleWhen the...
View ArticleHow to Format R710 disks
Hi All, I'm new with the Dell R710 Poweredge servers, I've been asked to just format hard disks located of a R710 with 6 hard disks.This is why those server have been sold to a another company, so,...
View ArticleHow to run RACADM RACRESETCFG on Dell 2850 gen.II
Sorry for my dumb questions, but I'm new in such equipment.I have a notebook, and the server.How do I run this command? I need to reset DRAC password.I have OMSA installed on the notebook, but I cannot...
View ArticleDell r610 slow booting
Hi i have a Dell r610 but it takes some seconds to startup i got 48gb ram, i just checked that everything is ok in terms of ram, hard drives, my bios version is 2.0.13 what can i do to optimize...
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