Dell R815 Machine Chk CPU Error
Hello,I have a Dell R815 machine that will no longer boot properly. Every time I try and power on the machine, I can make it past the Dell splash screen but shortly after the machine will reboot...
View ArticleWhat ever happened to great Dell service???
We recently purchased a PowerEdge T430 server with full support. The total package was nearly $16,000. I was lied to before the purchase about signing up for a dell advantage account. I was told that I...
View ArticleDell VRTX, Dell M620 NIC Firmware Updates
I have a Dell VRTX with M620 Blades. In the future, I will bring the Dell VRTX down briefly for firmware updates (PERC8, Mainboard, Expander). After doing the above firmware updates, I would like to...
View ArticleR510 A bus fatal error slot 3
R510 Description: A bus fatal error was detected on a component at slot 3, what is slot 3?The server is a 4 bay non hot swap with 3 drives in RAID5 on a PERC S300, the 4th channel has a 1TB SSD on it....
View ArticleDell PowerEdge R720 how to display active System profile
Hi,We need to verify what System profile is active on Dell powerEdge R720; the only way is during boot at Bios setting or we could find information by iDrac signon ?Thanks and best regards Umberto
View ArticleC6100 server BSOD
I'm trying to track down why this server is experiencing blue screens.I see the following errors in the event log:Error Event ID 6008 "The previous system shutdown at 4:21:28 AM on 6/9/2015 was...
View ArticleSecond Processor Poweredge T410
Hello,We have a 3 year old Dell Poweredge T410. It originally only had one processor but we want to upgrade so i updated the bios and tried to add a second processor. When i have the second processor...
View ArticleTesting for bad sectors in hard drives
How can we check the number of bad sectors on a hard drive? Does SeaTools work for this? Thank you.
View ArticleT610, LOM port 2 is not working
other then LOM port 2 everything is working properly. In LCC no error found in Hardware Diagnosis.In device manager both Broadcom NIC is present. Both NIC is shown in "Network Connections", but Local...
View ArticlePowerEdge R410 compatible with Kingston KVR16E11K3/12?
Subject line says it all... almost! I have an R410 with just 2GB RAM on 2 1GB 1Rx8x72 UBE, as Dell part G481D. System has a single CPU as Xeon E5520.Some time ago I mistakenly ordered ECC UDIMMs for a...
View ArticleDrac 5 firmware upgrade / Poodle vulnerability
Hi,Just wanted to know if there is a Drac 5 firmware upgrade that fixes the poodle vulnerability?Cheers,Michael
View ArticleGetting "Memory not detected" when upgrading memory in R-310 core i3-550
I have tried both registered and unregistered with the same results The RAM was (i sent them back as non-functional) DDR3-1333MHz PC3-10600 ECC registered and the other was ECC unregistered. Total was...
View ArticleiDRAC6 Comunication Failure via Dell PowerEdge 710
Dear All,I have facing this problem yesterday during restart the server.Error massage on the below :iDRAC6 Comunication FailureAlert ! iDRAC6 not responding. Power required may exceed PSU wattageAlert...
View ArticlePoweredge 2970 won't boot after processor upgrade
I have a Poweredge 2970 that was originally built with two Opteron 2222SE processors. Everything I've read indicates that this should be able to use Opteron 2435 processors so I picked up a pair and...
View ArticleDrac 5 console redirect issue
Hi all,I've been having this issue setting up a Drac that's driving me mad and would be hugely appreciative if anyone could shed any light on this.I have a PowerEdge 2950 running Windows server 2012...
View ArticleDell R730XD Intel X710 NIC Partitioning Issues
I'm having some issues with the R730XD and the Intel X710 4x10G optical NIC (integrated).I've disabled network partitioning on the interfaces, since we're not exploring that right now. However, during...
View ArticleDELL R430 - New SAS HBA 6GB - Boot and LCC error
Hello eveverybody,I have a fresh new Dell Poweredge R430 with a SAS HBA 12GB and everything was ok.I replaced the 12GB card by the dell SAS 6GB HBA buy on the Dell Website .MyServer wont boot correctly...
View ArticleAdding a PERC H310 to an existing R630
Had a customer purchase an R630 a few months back. They bought the system with only one hard drive.The system is in production.They have been provided an PERC H310 and an additional hard drive. But I...
View ArticleGot PE1950 genII(s) for home lab vms, power saving?
I'm looking to run one PE1950 at a time (appears to be using 200w) with One Dual Core 3.0ghz xeon. However upon ESXi installation I've lost power management, without any VMachines loaded the fans are...
View ArticleSeverer going to Hang after some time (Dell PE R-610)
Dear Team, I am facing problem with Dell Server R610 the server after some time later going hang and do not working anything keyboard/ mouse. The server running with windows server 2003 and SQL server...
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