Air Duct Poweredge 1950 GII
Greetings I saved some Poweredge servers from the Ewaste shredder at my local scrap yard, namely two 1950s one 2950 and one 860. I have a question on the 1950, Would it hurt to run the system without...
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Life Cycle Controller
I recently updated the Life Cycle Controller to the newest version for my PowerEdge T420. When I rebooted the system I got a message telling me that the life cycle controller needed to be repaired so I...
View ArticlePE update CPU hyper-v
power edge 1950 IIILast version BiosCPU : E5345Windows server 64b 2008HYPER-V is running !!!Followed by upgrade CPU for E5420Server windows 2008 is running but Hyper-V not running (CPU problem)What...
View ArticleThermal Shutdown for blades
Hi,We recently had an air-con failure and had some very high temperatures recorded by serveral Chassis (>70deg C)Yet none of our blades turned off.I believe servers should shut down if a critical...
View ArticlePE m1000e Chassis Question
I have a PowerEdge m1000e chassis with a number of m600 blades, and 4 ethernet pass-through cards in it. Can someone tell me how I can manage the mapping between the network controller cards on the...
View ArticlePE R420, lower memory bandwidth than expected compared to old systems and...
Short: A new server seems to have too limited memory bandwidth, any ideas why?I hope I come to the right place to ask this (first post). At my company we among others have a server for the development...
View ArticleDell Server PowerEdge 840
Deal All,I have Dell Server PowerEdge 840, its not booting and mother board capacitors seems burst out, So i am planning to change the motherboard, but the issue is that i am not getting Dell Server...
View ArticleUnable to Install Windows 2003 Server on Dell Poweredge 1950 II with a Perc...
Hello,I have been trying to install Windows 2003 on a PE 1950 II with a Perc 5/I controller using raid-1.It doesn't work with booting the Server 2003 disk (no hard drive found), also tried using F6 and...
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Hardware Inventory
The Life Cycle Controlling kept freezing until I reset the configuration, however that also deleted a slight bit of information. Since I have a copy of the Factory Shipped Inventory as an xml file, is...
View Articlehow to avoid "press f1 to continue" during boot on PowerEdge T300
Hi guys, I've got the systematic meesgae during boot on PowerEdge T300 :"press f1 to continue" I've disabled Keyboard error, plug or unplug usb keyboard, update BIOS, what else ? Thanks for your help
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2900 III - CPU Upgrade Xeon x5492 3.4 Ghz
Hoping someone can confirm if a Dell PowerEdge 2900 III supports an Intel Xeon x5492 3.4Ghz. Latest Bios 2.7 shows support for 5400 series. Any information is appreciated.
View ArticleR620 needs USB3 or eSATA PCI card. Suggestions?
We need to attach some fast, external storage to this R620, but I have not had much luck in finding a PCI-e eSATA or USB 3.0 card that works.I use the exact same cards that I've used in other...
View ArticlePowerEdge R710 Memory configuration
Hello,Just got some more RAM for our 710. Tried looking up the memory configuration and cannot find them. The one document I find referenced numerous places does not show 16GB modules. Only up to...
View ArticleT320 stucks at initializing firmware interfaces
HiAfter having installed an Adaptec 2045 RAID card in my T320, it refuses to continue to boot. the problem persists even if I deactivate completely LCC... I need machine running urgently. Please help...
View ArticleSystem Updates - Week of December 11th 2013
System Updates - Week of December 11th 2013System ManagementiDRAC7 1.50.50 (Recommended) 11/27/2013 M1000e CMC 4.5 (Recommended) 11/27/2013DellNetworking PowerConnect 5500 Series Firmware 4.1.0.15 A09...
View ArticleR710 2nd CPU Install - E1410
Configuration Before: 1 x Xeon 5540 CPU with 24GB RAMConfiguration Now: 2 x Xeon 5540 CPU with 48GB RAM- After installing a CPU in Socket #2 and RAM to match CPU 1 and the RAM, upon boot I get the...
View ArticleM1000 and network pass-throughs
We have an M1000 which has 1G 16 port pass-throughs in the A and B fabrics and a FC module in the C fabric. My question is about network adapters. We have been getting conflicting information. Does a...
View ArticleDell C6100 Node No Longer Boots
A few hours ago, one of the nodes on a Dell C6100 4 node server stopped responding while I was actively working on it. After 5 hours of troubleshooting, here is what I have found...- No video output-...
View ArticleWhere to buy memory?
I need 16GB ram Dell Part Number A5008568 ,MAy ay one tell me from where i can find it.
View ArticleRAM Upgrade Options
I have a PowerEdge R710 with dual CPUs and I am upgrading the memory capacity. I have ordered 6x 16GB 2Rx4 RDIMM 1333MHz LV.Current Config:A1, A2, A3: 4GB, 1333, 2RX8, 8, 240, Regulatory, Low...
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