PowerEdge C410X connected to a T7500 HowTo
Does anyone have information or know how to connect a C410X to a T7500 workstation via a HIC card and utilize the GPGPUs (Teslas / M2090) for Maximus or CUDA or even just "seeing" the GPUs show up in...
View ArticleIssues updating iDrac5
I am trying to update firmware on my iDrac5 module from 1.40 to 1.65. When running updater on my 2950 with windows 2012 r2 I get error:The update failed to complete; you must restart your system and...
View ArticlePowerEdge1950: Problem with the network to connect two PCI cards
Hello,I have a PE1950 server and I am connecting two PCI cards for analog and GSM dial.It happens that when you connect the two cards can not simultaneously access the network, the Ethernet interface...
View ArticlePowerEdge R805 and Opteron 2435
I have two PE R805 servers and four Opteron 2435. On one server all four processors work in each possible combination. However, when i try to use the same processors in my other R805 it will not bring...
View ArticlePoweEdge 2900 won't boot of Windows disc's
trying to upgrade the hdd and reinstall server 08 r2windows has been taking for ever to boot up. Machine starts up goes to boot off disc, screens black, disc spins, reads, then machine reboots...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2900 & 2950 problems
I need help please! I know my way around PC's but I'm lost when it comes to servers. Recently I picked up several servers which I planned on setting up in my house. They all came without hard drives,...
View Article12G & 13G
Hello, i am about to buy PV TL1000 and noticed that there are some options for 12G & 13G servers, i read that ( or from what i understand ) the difference is all about the processor version ( v2 is...
View ArticleR710 Battery status "STORAGE ROMB BATTERY LOW
Hi ALLIm a new IT engineer and would really appreciate your advise regarding one of our Dell ESXI server R710 having this alert "battery on controller 0" "health state is not good" and showing on the...
View ArticlePoweredge T320 mixing RAM 2x8GB + 2x16GB
Hi,we have a poweredge T320 and want to extend the memory of the existing 2x8GB. What should the configuration be like if we want to add 2x16GB?Thanks in advance for the help and best regardsTim
View ArticleOperating System Not Found
We have a Dell VRTX chasis with a Power Edge M620 Blade Server. The OS installed is VMware ESXI 5.1.0.All of a sudden I could not access the VMs and my analysis showed that the OS was not being...
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Firmware update for IOM and IOM Coprocessor on poweredge M1000e
We are updating firmware for M1000e, but when attempting to update the firmware for the IOM, we do not see a checkbox for "update". We also cannot find any download links for IOM software anywhere. Can...
View ArticlePowerEdge m1000e won't power on
We just got a used m1000e in, which was tested prior to receiving here. Our configuration is 1 PSU's. We don't have 208v here, but we do have 120v Single phase.We have followed the specification...
View ArticleI can't connect the power supply to the GPU card
I bought nVidia Quadro 6000 for my PowerEdge T420 server but I can't find the way to connect power supply to the card. Standard 8-pin power cable won't fit inside the power supply socket on the power...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1900 Runs but can't get into it.
I have a PowerEdge 1900 that was given to me. I want to make use of it, but can't seem to get any image out of the VGA , Mouse and Keyboard. It was mentioned to me that those ports are probably set to...
View ArticleR710 with 9 x 2GB ram
HiI have 9 x 2GB memory how do i put in each slot? My server with dual processor.My current config is CPU 1 : A1, A4, A2, A5, A3CPU 2 : B1, B4, B2, B5When i start up BIOS shows one slot is disabled...
View ArticleFailed Write DqDqs DIMM B2
Hi. PowerEdge R720. Firs start - message:"Error: Memory initialization warning detected.DDR3 Training Failure - FPT - Write Leveling DIMM B2Memory Training Failure detected. Failed Write DqDqs DIMM...
View ArticleR710 won't boot after firmware update
Hi guys,I wanted to reinstall a R710 so that we can use it again in our DC, and i saw that the firmware was a bit out of date (a lot actually).So generated a bootable iso with the repository manager...
View ArticleDell PE 2800 Riser Card and Motherboard question
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2800. The original configuration was (1) Xenon 2.8 GHz processor and 8 GB RAM, along with a SCSI RAID 5. I began receiving the 1-3-2 beep code about a week ago. I pulled the...
View ArticleGet NIC1 MAC via IPMI - C6105
So on the Dell R-series servers I was always able to get the MAC address of the NICs by using "racadm.exe getSysInfo" . I now have a set of C6105's that do not have a DRAC but are accessible via IPMI.I...
View ArticlePowerEdge C6220 automatic S5/G2: soft-off for a whole rack of nodes
I have a rack of 5 C6220 nodes which for the last couple of weeks have all been turning off for no apparent reason. The BMC logs are not very descriptive as the S5/G2 message is the only message that...
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