T310 amber light - how to read the LED codes
Our Poweredge T310 (without the LCD screen) is running Windows Server 2008 and has a solid amber light on panel. I viewed the 4 lights as I rebooted but they all went on in various combinations...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge 2900: E171F PCIE Fatal Err, B0 D5 F0, E1422 CPU Machine Chk,...
Hello,I recently bought a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server. I have 4 x 2TB HDDs in a RAID 5 configuration, two X5460 Xeon processors installed, and 32GB of RAM installed in my server as well. The server is...
View ArticleDell System Hardware & Software Updates for May 18 - 22, 2015
Popular DownloadsDSET - Dell Server E-Support Tool for Dell ServersDell Support Live Image 2.2OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.0.1Servers OnlyDell Express Flash NVMe...
View ArticlePowerEdge M600 / FCoE adapter
Trying to find the drive for Windows 2012 R2 for this adapter: Intel 10GbE/FCoE Dual KR X-520 (or part # MY-08F6NV-12402). Cannot find it with Dell or Intel. Is this adapter supported by the M600?All...
View ArticlePoweredge R320 PSU FAILED Firmware Update Bricked
I'm quite annoyed with the fact that.1. Our warranty for the Poweredge R320 had expired. Tried to extend warranty but no reply from DELL. Wanted to extend the warranty before trying to address the PSU...
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O/S Not booting after windows update?
I believe Windows Update has caused this issue...after a typical update and restart the O/S won't boot. See below screenshot...I don't believe it's cause of the BMC, I just think that's the last thing...
View ArticlePE R710 Memory Issue
Hello,I am trying to add 16GB (2x8) of memory to a PowerEdge R710; however, I cannot get the system to work with the modules I have. The machine is currently configured with 8GB DIMMs in A1 and B1 (w/...
View ArticleVGA Driver for T110 II running Windows Server 2012 R2
Hi .. just wondering if anyone is running Windows Server 2012 R2 on Dell T110 II server?I just completed installation and updated all the OS patches but noticed the graphic is distorted so when I...
View ArticlePoweredge T620 cannot find boot drive.....
Hi folks, I have this server that was shut down abruptly and now when it is powered up it does the “ preparing automatic repair....” loading files” routine. when it gets past that annoyance, it asks...
View ArticlePoweredge 2850 Error EB107 PROC INIT ERROR
Greetings All,Have a 2850 that's been restarting on its own the past 3 days, nothing in the dump files. Today the machine pops an error on the amber LCD screen - EB107 PROC INIT ERROR. It's a dual...
View ArticleR710 Stuck at: Testing Memory Please wait.
When the server turns on, it sits at "Testing Memory Please wait". I've taken out all of the ram and tried different sticks (thinking one may be bad). The other sticks that I've tested are 1GB...
View ArticleR710 - W1628 after increasing RAM from 48GB to 72GB ?
So I have an R710 with twin quad 2.8 proc, four 1TB SATA drives and twin "eco" PSU both powered. According to a KillaWat, a single PSU is pulling about 150w, when both are online, each is pulling about...
View ArticleDell R610 Collecting System Inventory
I have 2x Dell R610 servers. One proceeds quickly through POST while the other drops into "Collecting System Inventory" for about 10 mins before booting.Is there a way to disable the "collecting system...
View ArticleAdditional DVI Card not the default for R730 server
I recently bought a Dell R730 server. I needed a DVI output so Dell recommended "Dell Part number A3515673" VisionTek Radeon HD 4350. Installed the card and was able to boot using the integrated VGA...
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Error when running Dell DSET tool
Hi all,We have a blade system with Dell M1000e chassis, M620 blades.They were installed Citrix XenServer 6.2 SP1.Today, I tried to run Dell DSET tool on these server (dell-dset-lx32-3.7.0.219.bin)...
View ArticleR820 drawing 65kW!!
So I have started seeing SEL entries for system board Consumption current is greater than the upper critical threshold and in looking at the power monitoring page in DRAC I see Max Peaks are listing...
View Articlemount server vertically
can we mount an r630 vertically? with the top facing the ceiling and the bottom facing the floor?
View ArticleMemory Riser Failure in Dell PowerEdge R910
Hi Team,server is giving E1234 Memory Riser power Failure #A this is third time before this we have replaced motherboard and server working fine. but after 1 or 2 days server went down with same error...
View ArticleR815 no POST after switching UEFI-BIOS boot mode
While attempting to troubleshoot an upgrade of AMD CPU's in an R815 server running Windows 2012 Server, I set the boot mode from UEFI to BIOS mode. (In retrospect, it looks like this is a neophyte...
View ArticlePoweredge T420 - GPU Install
Hello all,I am trying to understand how gpu installation work. Let me say that I have already managed to install a gpu card on my own server but I used a tricky way to give it the required power...
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