Lifecycle Controller Error while attempting to upgrade firmware
To All,I Attempting to upgrade the firmware in a T430. I boot into Lifecycle Controller during post and several upgrades are required. When I click apply it attempts to retrieve the update but then...
View ArticleCustom PC Based off Poweredge T620?
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View ArticleDell PowerEdge T410 CPU Upgrade
Hello,I am looking to upgrade my PowerEdge T410 CPU's. Looking at the manual it states that it can be upgraded to Xeon processors 5600 series.I was wondering if it can support the 2 CPUs of Xeon...
View ArticleDell Bios and boot sequence problem
I have a Dell T20 with the stock Sata 7200 RPM HDD and I've added a 240gb ssd (It's says in the bios that I'm in Raid mode and not AHCI, but both these disks are independent, I'm assuming there is no...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge T110 II power
have recently purchased a Quad Core PowerEdge T110 II. We have a 220V UPS unit. I don't see anythng in the documentation that says that this server is either 110V or 220V but have been told that it...
View ArticlePower Edge 1950
Hello,We need technical assistance for a PowerEdge 1950 Server. It was working OK till last week.The problem is when we power it on after POST we get this message : “PCle training error: Internal...
View ArticlePER320 optical drive compatibility
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View ArticleBroadcom BACS issue "cannot connect to localhost" with Server 2008 R2, latest...
Hi,I've just tried to update a couple of our R720s. They have the Broadcom 5719 and 5720 NICs. I have them on the latest firmware (7.10.61) with the latest Broadcom driver (version 19.0) and when I try...
View ArticleHow to configure the PowerEdge T110 without PXE boot?
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I have a Dell Passthru switch in slot A1. I show no power to it but I can flash the Info port (blue) on it from the LCD pannel. The CMC shows it installed but powered off. How can I turn this module...
View ArticleR610 IPMI 'System Board Power Optimized'
System boots with XenCenter, then freezes. Ran Dell Diags. Only error is as follows.Error Code 2900:003AMsg: IPMI - Cannot get initial reading for 'System Board Power Optimzed" - check cable...
View ArticleDell Power Edge T610 Server FATAL Error...
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View Article2950 and 1950 bios
i am doing some work for a non for profit who has had several poweredge 1950's and 2950's given to them. They all need to have bios updates along with everything else. They are running ubuntu server...
View ArticlePoweredge T310 Xeon Processor - E2012
Hello Dell!I am having trouble upgrading memory in the Poweredge T310 w/ Xeon processor. I have two servers on site and have tried multiple memory sticks and hundreds and hundreds of dollars spent on...
View ArticlePowerEdge SC1430 cpu upgrade
I have an SC1430 with the Xeon 5110 cpu (dual core 1.6)I bought an X5355 (quad core 2.66) because it was on a few lists of supported processors, some on these forums.But when I installed the processor...
View ArticleAdding PCIE Firewire card to poweredge t110 ii
Hi,I recently purchased a poweredge t110 ii. Was wondering if there are any compatible PCIE firewire cards that someone could recommend. I need Firewire 400, Firewire 800 isn't required. So if anyone...
View ArticleCritical email alerts from R820
Hi,We have about 40x R820 and r720's in our fleet and have only recently noticed that no email alerts come when a critical alert is logged on a system e.g. memory problem or psu loss etc.When looking...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 1950 III sliding rails that fit an APC Netshelter SX?
Hey everyone! I just got a good deal on a Dell PowerEdge 1950 gen 3. Noticed the screws that it uses definitely don't fit the M3 nuts on my APC enclosure.Anyone know of a sliding rail kit that would...
View ArticleUpdate iDrac 6,7,8 and Bios via OME
Hello,We have around 60 Dell servers (PowerEdge R420,430, R620,630 and R720xd.I have setup Open Manage Essentials and managed to get almost every server into OME except those we have problem with on...
View ArticleLifecycle controller boots to black screen with cursor KVM/iDrac- R810
I have a group of R810s that I was getting ready to do updates in our environment. all of them were at the following levels:BIOS Version 2.9.0Firmware Version 1.98 (Build 08)Lifecycle Controller...
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