Communication problem with APC Smart UPS
Hi,I'm, having a big problem with my APC SMT1500RMI2U.It is connected to my ESXi host via the provided Rj45->serial cable.I installed powerchute business agent on vMA following this guide:...
View ArticleR720 Upgrade idrac7 express to enterprise
Title says it all where can i get the license from?Thank you
View ArticleDell R710 memory upgrade best slots
Hello everyone, we bought 6 x 16GB sticks for one of our Dell R710 to replace the factory 32GB. I was looking at putting them in A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3. Is this a good configuration for memory...
View ArticlePoweredge SC1425 Boot from USB?
Hi guys,I have a Poweredge SC1425 with a version of Office 2003 on it which is locked out due to activation. The server doesn't have a dvd/cd drive so I'm booting by USB, the only problem is under boot...
View ArticleDell T710 restart problem, freezes with fans at full speed
Hello.I´m having problems with my T710 server. Every time that i try to restart the server it shutdown correctly but when it restarts it freezes in a state that puts the fans at full speed and the...
View ArticleNo iDRAC console video when using a second graphics card on PE R720
Is there a way to redirect iDRAC video to a second graphics card?Have a PE R720 that has a high end NVidia card installed for graphics processing.With the card installed I get no iDRAC video console....
View ArticleM605 Windows 2012 crashing regularly
I have two M605 servers (tag GQ3GQH1 is one of them) - configured the same way. (exact specs below). They used to have Win 2k8R2 installed and they worked fine.Last week i did a fresh install of...
View ArticleLoading a new O/S on to an M620
Hi ,We are trying to figure out some unexpected behaviour.On an M620 blade, we loaded RedHat. The default System Bios settings were used....Internal SD Card ON, 1st boot device SD card.After loading...
View ArticleT320 PSU upgrade after the fact?
I purchased a T320 through my rep for home/dev use and when building it the 350W cabled PSU was more than adequate for my needs but when I try to run all 8 hot swap drive bays I get power failures...
View ArticleDell Poweredge 2900 2x3.33Ghz Quad-Core X5470,32GB,4x450GB SAS 15K,Perc6/i
Hello i bought this server i have set up the hard drive on a raid 5, when i install windows 2003 server edition it said no HD detected.I was told by a friend i need to down load some ISO b4 i can...
View ArticleAdvice needed on Dell™ PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSD
Hi all, We are looking into buying servers with Dell™ PowerEdge™ Express Flash PCIe SSD drives.As far as I can see these drives can be used as IO acceleration devices under Hyper-V. Does anybody know...
View ArticlePowerEdge T110, Win2K3 Standard x86 SP2 - Best Compatible Video Card?
Our PoS server, a T110 running Windows 2003 x86 SP2 Standard, is our main interface for most of our business day-to-day. But because the onboard video is just impossible to use normally, we added an...
View ArticleCan no longer access BIOS on C6145 after BIOS/Firmware/BMC/SASRaid updates
This is 2 weeks into an incredibly long and frustration experience with the Dell C6145Shipped from Dell the unit has BIOS 2.6 and BMC 1.04Out of the box, that version/combination the BIOS/BMC could not...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2850 - two beeps, then "press F1 to retry boot..."
I'm trying to set up a second-hand 2850 with a wiped 4-disc array. The machine starts up with an amber LED display showing scrambled pixels and the system status indicator on the rear flashes red. I...
View ArticleT110 Gigabit Ethernet Upgrade Recommendation?
Got a T110 running Win2K3 SP2 Standard x86, but not totally content with the on-board Broadcom gigabit Ethernet adapter. Tempted to upgrade to something Intel based, found one, but realized there...
View ArticlePoweredge 2970 Series No Boot
Poweredge 2970 Series,Will not boot, not even to BIOs, No Warnings, No Errors, Blue LED on back, DRAC says powered on but No Video, No Power to USB devices, HDD not spinning up, Fans full then settle...
View Articlecan a dell poweredge 2600 run windows 7?
I have a dell powerdege 2600, I would like to install windows 7 on it (not for desktop use) i was planning on turning it into a server for a game running on windows 7. It has two duel core 3.2 (?)...
View ArticleT110 Cannot see any USB devices
I have a T110 II with PERC s300, 3 SATA drives. System cannot see any USB devices or CD. I have double-checked that System Setup says All User Accessible USB ports are Enabled. CD-ROM drive is an...
View ArticleRedundant Power - Dell R510?
I dropped a new processor and memory in this server over the weekend and realized it only had a single power supply. It looks like it may have an expansion slot for a second but it's really not clear....
View ArticleM1000E how to get 2 network connections for one blade
All-I have absolutely no experience with blade servers. So pointers to any information that can educate me wouldbe appreciated. Basically I have the M1000E and a NetApp storage applicance. We have an...
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