Problem getting IDRAC6 Enterprise Virtual Console to work
I'm sure I am making some sort of rookie mistake here, but after a few rounds of updates and research around the web I'm stumped... I'm setting up a IDRAC6 Enterprise (installed in a DELL R710), I can...
View ArticleWhat is the best method for Poweredge R420 Firmware Upgrade
Dell has many ways to upgrade PowerEdge servers, but I haven’t found an universal way to upgrade all my firmware. What is the best approach to upgrade Dell firmware ?Does Dell have a method to upgrade...
View Articlepoweredge 1900 ethernet driver windows vista 64 bit
Hello I'm hoping someone can help me I have a poweredge 1900 server with windows vista 64 bitoperating system and I'm having trouble finding a driver for the ethernet controller. I called dell to...
View ArticleLost drives after importing foreign configuration
To install an configure additional drives in R510 with H200 controller (support for 2 VD only)Had to upgrade/replace H200 with H700. After research, is supposed to be easy swap.Followed this procedure:...
View ArticleC2100
The drive bays on our C2100 are in an array - 3 down and 4 across. How are the drives physically numbered? Our monitoring software numbers them 1 through 12. Which drive is physically number 1,...
View ArticleDell R710 No Power
Greetings all,I am trying to fix a r710 server for a gentleman who is trying to start a Urgent care facility.The unit he currently has will not power up at all when hitting the power button. Opening...
View ArticleAmber Light LED on Dell PowerEdge 1950
Hello,I was asked to "remove" the amber warnings from the LED of several Dell PowerEdge 1950.I examined the LED and was unable to "remove" the warning using the controls on the LED display on the front...
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Dell T110 PowerEdge Hard Drive problems
I have a Dell Poweredge T110, with 2 250GB hard drives, HDD0, HDD1. Operating system: Microsoft Server 2008 R2I am not the one who set it up initially a few years back. So it turns out, the C drive was...
View ArticlePowerEdge R730 || SSDs sequence in RAID5
Dear All,I am having a Dell server which was having windows 2012 R2 standard OS alongwith RAID-5 configuration.there were 3 virtual drives..VD 1 containing 3 physical drives on RAID-5VD 2 containing 3...
View ArticleDell poweredge 2900 motherboard problem... want to retrieve data from hardisk
One day...my server cannot start.. it appears e1000 failsafe,e1219 backplane pwrgd..then i called dell ,they said tje motherboard problem... then they email me they no longer suppoet for this...
View ArticleWhich Mini-SAS cables for PE T410?
Hi All!I have a PE T410 (six 3.5" LFF hot-swap bays) which came with the archaic PERC 6i controller. I want to replace this controller with something newer like an Adaptec 6805 or a Dell H700/710 which...
View ArticlePowerEdge R420
I ran into issues upgrading my R420 with a 2nd CPU and more memory. I installed E5-2420 (2 of these) Part # 726882887 and 128GB of RAM Part #A6996789. I also installed 02827M iDRAC Enterprise card from...
View ArticlePoweredge T110 raid driver
I am trying to reinstall my server T110, but it asking raid driver , and hard drive is not showing , pleaes update me whre i can download the driver and how i can install windows 2008 r2 on T100Thanks
View ArticlePowerEdge 1900 & WS2012r2
GentsI inherited PowerEdge 1900 and decided to migrate my old WHS2011 to it.I have 10 SATA drives to transfer (various sizes 1TB - 4TB). I have started by moving 3x 2TB drives and connecting them to...
View ArticleH200 Controller what cable is needed to connect to SAS drives? HELP!
Hi everyone,I am really stuck! I bought a new H200 RAID PCIe card, looking at the card itself it has SAS A and SAS B input interfaces, however I can't match any cable to connect to those. I searched...
View ArticleMemory populating on the PowerEdge R920
Hi everyone, we have a PE R920 with sixteen 4Gb dimms already installed, and we want to add another twelve 16Gb memory dimms. The 4Gb dimms are single rank and the new 16Gb are double rank.Can someone...
View ArticleWhat is required for Dell CloudEdge C410x to work in 8:1 mode?
I recently acquired a C410x PCI Express Expansion chassis to allow multiple PCI-e GPUs to be connected to a single PCI-e slot.The chassis that I have has a sticker indicating that it supports 8:1 mode,...
View ArticleDedicated idrac port
Hi,i have some servers, far from me, and I would like to know if these servers has iDRAC Enterprise witht ddicated port or not.Can I check this info from a running server, maybe from OpenManage or I...
View ArticleHow to "safely remove" a RAID 0 disk from PERC 6/i ???
Hello! I moving to a PowerEdge R710 with PERC 6/i controller running Windows Server 2012 R2. I am new to Dell servers and am having some difficulty accomplishing the following. The old server had a...
View ArticleT300 not recognising any hard drives
Hi all,I recently purchased a second hand T300 server to learn more about working with servers, networking, etc. It arrived but didn't have any hard drives so I bought a couple 160GB SATA drives (WD...
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