Poweredge 840- Amber light Flashing
I bought a refurbished/used Dell Poweredge 840 from a reseller over the internet. Since buying it i have installed a raid card, added 4 hard drives, installed server 2008 standard, and have used the...
View ArticlePowerEdge 6950 Memory Config
Good Evening - Maybe someone has seen this problem I am having with the listed server - PE 6950 I am trying the get the system to read 32GB of ram, <server running four processors> the config I...
View ArticlePowerEdge R610 citrix xenserver installation on SD card (16,32 or 64GB)
Hi all!We have 4 PowerEdge R610 servers with iDrac6 enterprise card. And we wanna install citrix xenserver hypervisor on SD card instead of local HDD or SAN disks. I tried use back port of iDrac6...
View ArticleDell UPS Rack/Tower 2700W and a R710 ESX 4.0 / ESXi 4.1 environment
Hello,Been struggling with this for a while with reseller, but their answer is, "not possible".Which I don't want to accept...We have several sites with:Dell UPS Rack/Tower 2700WDell R710 with ESX4 /...
View ArticleSAS HDDs and one SATA PE2950
Hi, I've got PE2950 and Perc 5/i. 2 SAS 73 GB 15K HDDs in one array and 3 SAS 300GB 10K in second array. I decided to use one emty slot and bought 2TB SATA HDD. But I can't configure it in perc tool...
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What does diagnostic service failure means?
hi all, I know storage failure means hard drive failure but what does an exclamation mark next to diagnostic service means? When I click on that, I get another page with items having red X next to...
View ArticleUpgrading from xeon single to dual core in PE2800 will I also need to upgrade...
I currently have a 2800 tower with the single core xeon processor and the factory heatsink. I'm upgrading to a dual core xeon 2.8 from...
View ArticlePowerEdge C1100 dead in the water...
Hello PowerEdge General HW Forum:My C1100 is in a solid fault condition. When power is applied by plugging it in, power comes on but the system is unresponsive. The power switch on the front panel is...
View ArticleBattery on Controller PERC 5/i Integrated
hi,i have one question if any one can answer it i will be appreciatingwe had poweredage 2950 server and the Open Manage Server Administrator portal showing that the battery for the PERC 5/i is faild...
View ArticlePowerEdge 4600 Redundancy Status Lost
I have a PowerEdge 4600 which I had to replace a power supply on. I did a hot swap on the Power supply. The light on the power supply went green right away but the amber light on the front of the...
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...
View ArticleDell server not booting
I am having the same problem with a dell server i do not know if it is the same type of server Ill have to check tomorrow but its a continuous beeps that are the same frequency as far as i can tell and...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2400 Resurrection
I purchased a used PowerEdge 2400 that I would like to upgrade / resurrect. I know it is a bit of a relic, but I’m hoping I can still find some support here.The service tag is 82RQ10B, but I have...
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is it faulty PERC controller or backplane?
Dell PE2950, doing health checks & found these errors in open manage (please see below). What has failed in this instance? is it PERC controller or backplane? Or both? On a side note, is there a...
View ArticleDELL PE R210 Server's FAN is Very Noisy
Hi Anyone,Could you pls solve the problem of DELL PE R201 Server's FAN Noisy.I do not understand what problem is it? let me know how to solve this issue.
View ArticlePowerEdge 2950, Ubuntu Server install, Hard Disk not detected??
Alright guys,This is my first server so bear with me..... I received this server for free, but I had to buy ram and a hard drive for it.I installed both today, and the server seems to be fine. It posts...
View ArticlePowerEdge 2900 Power Supply Pinout
Hello Allis any body know the pin configuration of or PowerEdge 2900 Power Supply i just want to up the power supply with out server machine.power supply model A930p-00ill be very thankfull
View ArticlePower Edge T310 Memory Support
Last night I installed x6 2GB (Dual Ranked) PC3-10600 ECC RDIMM's in to my T310 (w/ Xeon X3440), and it did not work. Removing the RDIMM's from slot 5 and 6 resulted in the system working normally....
View ArticlePowerVault NF500 upgrade options
We have a NF500 storage server that we're getting ready to rebuild. Currently it's running Windows 2003 R2 x86 Storage Server. Is there any reason I can't update to Windows Server 2008 x64? We use it...
View ArticleDoes the PowerEdge 2850 BIOS Support Virtualization Technology?
Sorry to necro this thread, but it speaks directly to my issue. I too have a 2850 in which I've invested a lot of time and money and would like to solve this problem (no VT) with this device. I note...
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