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PowerEdge T110ii Memory upgrade, disaster.
Hello,I need some assistance, I recently made a purchase of some memory to upgrade my PowerEdge T110II. Unfortunately, the person I bought my new memory from didn't add the correct details on the item...
View ArticleProblem installing 8.0.1.1 patch for DELL openmanage 8.0.1
Hi all,We are installing Dell openmanage software 8.01 on our R730XD machines via OSD(SCCM), but when we try to install the patch 8.0.1.1, it fails because of the file "invcol.tmp in c:\windows folder...
View ArticleEvent id 6008
I have a poweredge 2650 windows 2003 sp2 server that has been begun to reboot randomly about once a day. The only thing I see in the logs is the event id 6008 unexpected shutdown. There is nothing in...
View ArticleHacking PERC H310 in IT mode to work with PowerEgde R710 - unable to see the...
Hi,I am trying to use PERC H310 in IT mode (like HBA card) in the poweredge R710. I know that officially this controller is not supported but by googling I found some people saying that it works.I...
View ArticleFiber card not showing in firmware Inventory
I have two M620 blades in a 1000e chassis that has QLogic fiber cards that show up in the hardware inventory, but not the firmware inventory. I have eight other blades in that chassis that they show...
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Dell VRTX Drive Configuration
I am trying to configure a Dell VRTX with 3 Blades with Windows 2012 R2 FailoverI followed the Dell instructions to create a Quorum Disk (RAID 1) and a cluster shared disk (CSV) - Raid 50. The issue...
View ArticleWant a new Hardware Raid Controller for a PET410 server
We currently have a PET410, Windows Server 2008 Std, SP2, with a PERCS300 controller.The server was shipped with a RAID5 volume 3 ea 250 GB drives,with R/W caching.I now have 3 1 TB drives after I...
View ArticleR410 Disk 0 showing as foreign device ERROR Code: 0xc
Disk 0 failed to boot into the OS. Now I can see it but it is showing as a foreign device. Disk 1 is showing missing as it had failed also. When I try to import the foreign device it fails and with...
View Article400GB Dell PowerEdge NVMe MLC Express Flash PCIeSSD, 2.5in, Hot-plug
can these new NVMe PCIe SSD 2.5in drives be used as a boot drive? also can multiples of them be put in a raid array?thanksChris
View ArticleLifecycle Controller IP. Is it always active?
We currently have the Windows IP and the iDrac IP setup for all our servers. We then used the lifecycle Controller to do some firmware updates which needed yet another IP address.I really don't want...
View ArticleBIOS update failure: "System Serivces not running"
Trying to update BIOS on R720 from ver.1.6.0 to 2.5.2 (using BIOS_MKCTM_WN64_2.5.2.EXE package), OS is WS2012 R2 - update utility hits "System Services is disabled" error, and fails belly up.What's...
View ArticleR310 w/ i3-540 memory upgrade options
Hello, I have a poweredge R310 with an I3-540 which only accepts UDIMM modules. Currently it has one 2GB module that I have tried replacing with similar specced modules, however it fails while loading...
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Memory failure detected
Hi,I have a R900 server with a memory problem. At some point the server rebooted and the informational LCD screen displayed this message: E2110 MBE CRD A Dimm 6I purchased a replacement DIMM and...
View ArticleAmber light is blinking on the front panel of the server
Hello,We use a Power Edge T110 II, and the amber light on the front panel of the server has been blinking recently. There has been no hardware/software changes leading to that that I know of. We use...
View ArticleUpdating BIOS on a T110 II
Hi,We have a T110 II that from time to time unexpectedly reboots. Earlier it seemed like it was connected to us attaching an external usb drive, but after patching it stopped.Now it has started again,...
View ArticleT320: How to get rid of OS deployment driver volumes?
I've just used the Lifecycle controller on my new PowerEdge T320 to install Windows Server 2012 R2. Now there are two removable drives that I can't seem to get rid of: MAS022 and OEMDRV. I can eject...
View ArticleLifecycle Controller IP. Is it always active?
We currently have the Windows IP and the iDrac IP setup for all our servers. We then used the lifecycle Controller to do some firmware updates which needed yet another IP address.I really don't want...
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Dell VRTX Drive Configuration
I am trying to configure a Dell VRTX with 3 Blades with Windows 2012 R2 FailoverI followed the Dell instructions to create a Quorum Disk (RAID 1) and a cluster shared disk (CSV) - Raid 50. The issue...
View ArticleBIOS update failure: "System Serivces not running"
Trying to update BIOS on R720 from ver.1.6.0 to 2.5.2 (using BIOS_MKCTM_WN64_2.5.2.EXE package), OS is WS2012 R2 - update utility hits "System Services is disabled" error, and fails belly up.What's...
View ArticleR310 w/ i3-540 memory upgrade options
Hello, I have a poweredge R310 with an I3-540 which only accepts UDIMM modules. Currently it has one 2GB module that I have tried replacing with similar specced modules, however it fails while loading...
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