Dell M1000e enclosure "CMC not responding"
Hi all,We have an urgent issue with a Dell M1000e enclosure. Suddenly in Saturday it stopped working and it’s showing “CMC not responding in LCD display”. All the servers and switches are off and not...
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NIC updates...loooooong time taken
Hi,When performing a NIC update on an R820 (via DRAC) I noticed that the Task Time Limit is set to 1 hour and 40 mins!! This would cause major disruption if it really extended that far. (Actual only...
View ArticleT410 No Power / Power Flickering
Hello all,I have a poweredge T410 that does not receive power, and I am trying to determine if the issue is with the power supply or the motherboard.When power is plugged in, the power supply makes a...
View ArticleWhat update file for BIOS on a M710HD?
I'm not sure what update file I'm suppose to use to update my M710HD through the CMC. I tried using M710HD_BIOS_VYR91_WN64_8.0.0.EXE but I just get package verification failed error RED007. I'm not...
View ArticlePowerEdge 1950 - Cache battery 0 in controller 0 needs attention: Failed...
Hello, Nagios is reporting this error,Nagios error:** NAGIOS **Notification Type: PROBLEMService: System HealthHost: serverAddress: serverState: CRITICALDate/Time: Wed Jul 8 07:20:19 CEST...
View ArticleFail to BOOT after BIOS update PowerEdge T110 II
DELL BIOS UPGRADE FAIL / NO BOOT / SYSTEM HEALTH INDICATOR FLASHING AMBERI am/was Running Windows Server 2012 Standard.BIOS was 2.2.3I downloaded the latest BIOS for upgrade for x64 OS (Server 2012)As...
View ArticleGPU performance on Dell M620 Blades
Hello,We have 8 x Dell M620 Blades in a M1000E chassis (think that is right). We have VMware as the hypervisor for these 8 hosts.We have Citrix XenApp running on them and generally performance to the...
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Help please :-{ R430 i350 iSCSI no vmhba
Hi everyone, hopefully someone can help. We are installing new R430's to replace our aging 2950's and we purchased them with the Intel i350 Quad port cards specifically because they are supposed to...
View ArticleR610 and cheap video card
Hi All,I have an old R610 that I am trying to help someone use. Unfortunately the build in Matrox video card that ships with these can only do resolutions up to 1280 and is pretty terrible to use for a...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge Unbootable!
Hi!I Have A Dell PowerEdge 840 Which has been running perfectly with windows server 2003 r2 until i switched to server 2012 and after to ubuntu server which has been running ok for almost a year after...
View ArticlePowerEdge T710 broadcom 5709c
Our new terminal server still relies on our domain controller and file server machine which is a PowerEdge T710 It runs Windows SBS 2008I'm getting network dropouts between the two machines for up to a...
View ArticleDell System Hardware & Software Updates for July 13 - 17, 2015
Popular DownloadsDSET - Dell Server E-Support ToolDell Support Live Image 2.2OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA)OpenManage Essentials (OME) 2.0.1Servers & StorageDell Data Protection |...
View ArticleDell 1950 not detecting DVD-ROM
I have a Dell 1950 that doesn't detect the DVD-ROM either in the boot selection nor from windows server 2003 R2. It does seem to power up when I insert a disk. I've also tried a USB DVD-RW drive,...
View ArticleInstall GPU Boards in Dell PowerEdge R720
Hi,I have Dell PowerEdge R720 server. I want to put couple of GPU boards in it, one on each riser. Will that work? What size PSU do we need? e.g. 750 W, 1100 WAlso Is there any way to read the PSU, to...
View ArticleMy Dell PowerEdge T610 Server failed to reboot
The server was working fine until I had initiated a reboot of the server.Now every time I reboot , it gives me the following screen. It is a error or a message. I am not sure. Please kindly advise.The...
View ArticleR210 II PXE boot: no DHCP requests sent
We are trying to make one of our R210 II appliances to boot from our PXE server. The problem is that once we tell the machine to boot using PXE, it tries to find the PXE server but never sends out a...
View ArticleVRTX PERC8 Firmware
I was given a VRTX chassis. I have been working on it slowly getting it to work. I have been updating firmware and such.I have been trying to update the shared PERC 8 firmware. I upload the new...
View ArticleR730 server with abnormal fan speed
Hi,I've a whole new R730 from Dell and just start to power on today.Factory default specifications from Dell are as follows,x2 E5-2620v3, x2 SSD HDD, x4 SAS HDD, x8 16GB RAMx1 Intel X710 DP 10Gb...
View ArticleUnable to install OS on Poweredge 2850
Im having an issue trying to install any version of Windows Server.So far, I have tried 2008 and 2012 R2.When the server arrived, it contained 3 73GB SCSI drives that had been wiped.I went into the...
View ArticleBracket for RD1000 drive
I have an internal RD1000 drive without a bracket/ adapter to mount it in a 5 1/4" bay. Does anyone know where to purchase the bracket?
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