Dell Poweredge 2900 CPU upgrade.
Hi there i have a Dell poweredge 2900 series 2 with a dual quad 1.6ghz E5310 processors.i want to speed things up a bit and am looking at fitting what i believe to be the highest possible upgrade a...
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Hello DavidBaffi want to speed things up a bit and am looking at fitting what i believe to be the highest possible upgrade a pair of x5365's is this the best i can achieve or are there anything else...
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Recently Picked up one of these yesterday. Â No Drives, No Ram. Â Says ECC but I used PC2 4200 Desktop Non ECC Dimms and it worked. Â Latest Bios A04 allows Pentium D processors. Â Windows 2003 server...
View ArticleWindow Server 2012 on PE2950
I have an old PE2950 I'd like to put Window Server 2012 on. Â When I enter in my service tag (xxxxxxx<Service tag removed>) I don't see an option to download drivers for PERC 5/i.Can someone link...
View ArticleRe: Use a PCI graphics card on Poweredge T620
joe.s i was updating my Nvidia Quadro graphics driver to version 311.15 today and noted the release notes had a rather interesting section on Tesla C2075 'modes' which i a shall repeat here:C2075 TCC...
View ArticleRe: Dell 2700W UPS Error During Console Configuration of Management IP
Before I do a reflash, do I need to power down the equipment connected to the UPS.
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May i take the time to thank you for a great answer, i really appreciate your time and effort, superb!!
View ArticleRe: Window Server 2012 on PE2950
According to this link, Â Server 2012 natively supports the Perc 5/i...
View ArticleDeploy form USB using lifecycle controller
When trying to Deploy OS from USB using lifecycle controller i keep getting media not found.How to make the LCC detect my USB flash ?PowerEdge R620
View ArticleAES-NI shows Disabled
Hello,I have 16 M610 blade servers each with two Xeon X5675. For one of the 16 servers shows AES-NI as being Disabled in the BIOS. The value is blue, i.e. cannot be changed. All servers are running the...
View ArticlePowerEdge T605 Memory Question
Hello,I'm looking to upgrade the memory on my T605 server, <ADMIN NOTE: Service tag removed as per privacy policy>, and I ran into a few discrepancies with the Dell documentation.According to the...
View Articledell poweroff problem
In window8 dell n5110 does not hibernate or turn off when i give the command. when i give the command a black screen appears and the power button light, the sleep button light remain on. I have to then...
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Hi umaraminchohan,Welcome to the community.Please let us know if you have recently updated to Windows 8 and the issue occurred only in Windows 8. As the system worked earlier you can also perform the...
View ArticleRe: Dell 2700W UPS Error During Console Configuration of Management IP
It does not require you to power off the attached devices during the reflash, but if you are able to have the downtime on those devices it might be helpful for it to redetect the load after the...
View ArticleCan't Boot from CD on R620 (Stuck on scanning devices from HBA for boot from...
I'm investigating the possibility of booting from SAN on our new R620s. I have been able to get it to work on our 2950s by configuring the HBAs to initialize a LUN on our SAN and then booting the...
View ArticleRe: installing esxi 5.0 on r620 sd card
Tdubb123,The issue you are having is normally due to multiple installs being detected. Did you attempt to install previously on the hard drives, then on the SD? If so you may want to initialize the...
View ArticleRe: AES-NI shows Disabled
What we are going to want to do is run a DSET on one of the servers so that we can look at the configuration. The easiest way to do this is to download out Linux LiveDVD and mount the image in the...
View ArticleRe: Can't Boot from CD on R620 (Stuck on scanning devices from HBA for boot...
Hi Josh,Thanks for your advice. UEFI boot manager does work and the Windows Installer loads, however UEFI boot is not our corporate standard. Furthermore, EFI boot requires a GPT disk and the LUN on...
View ArticleRe: Can't Boot from CD on R620 (Stuck on scanning devices from HBA for boot...
When it is on UEFI it is not looking for an MBR partition, so it sounds like that is what it is stuck on, it is trying to read from that LUN. Which Qlogic card is this? Have you updated the firmware on...
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