I have a PE R710 that started off with an iDRAC communications issue. We have iDRAC enterprise. I restarted the server and it said it could not communicate. I removed and reseated the module, it began working. Rebooted again and same issue. Removed and reseated and now it doesn't communicate at all. I have factory defaulted the server. Drained it of all power. Turned it back on and now the front LCD does not work and the fans run at 100%. I have left the server on for 5 minutes with no change. The server is getting power, when I press the power button the power light on the button goes green but the screen to the right shows nothing. I took the iDRAC module out and got the same results. I put the iDRAC module back in and connected to it and ran a ping. The default IP of 192.168.0.120 returns nothing. I waited 5 minutes again to ensure there was plenty of time for the module to initialize. I have verified that doing this does work on functioning systems. This system is out of warranty now, we do not plan on renewing. At this point I just want to know what happened. As we have many of these systems in production it is almost a need to know.
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