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PowerEdge T320 mix RAM 2x8GB + 2x16GB
Hello We have a server poweredge T320 and want to extend the existing 2x8GB memory. What should be the configuration as if we want to add 2x16GB? Thanks in advance for the help and best regards Tim
PoweEdge 2900 won't drive Windows boot
trying to upgrade the hard drive and reinstall the server 08 r2 Windows has taken to always start. Machine starts will start screens black, running with the disc, disc, readings, then on computer restarts automatically. Machine will start off the coa
PowerEdge R805 and Opteron 2435
I have two PE R805 servers and four Opteron 2435. On a single server, all four processors operate in every possible combination. However, when I try to use the same processors in my other R805 he will not bring a VGA boot screen and sits idly and doe
Supported PowerEdge 2850 WinPE versions
Hello We have problems with the Symantec system recovery. The new version uses WinPE 5.0 64-bit, but I can't start a server poweredge 2850 it resets the entire system. Does anyone know if the 2850 supports 64-bit WInPE 5.0?
PowerEdge 2950 Perc 6 / i battery failed
Hello We have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 that signals a failure of the PERC 6 / i battery. Where can I buy a spare battery? This server is no longer under warranty. Thank you Shang-Lin
Cables for a PERC H700i in Server R415
Hello, I have a Dell R415 server with the storage SAS 6iR controller. There is no bottom of basket - the four disks are connected directly. I want to upgrade this server controller of H700i to support 4 TB hard drives, and it seems that the existing
PE R710 found Config Raid
Hi all. I'm trying to raid installation on a PE R710 but for the option Configuration utility does not appear at startup so I can't set up the raid. Then, I checked the SATA settings > Embedded SATA in the bios but the only option available is the AT
Update hard drive Dell 2950
I have a Dell 2950 server with perc 5i raid 1. 2 physical drives, 1 virtual drive. I have 6 empty hotslots left. Can I install 2 more large drives and configure another virtual drive using raid 1 also. Clone the smallest on the virtual drive virtual
PowerEdge 2950 HDD Predictive Failure
Hi Experts We have PowerEdge 2950 with 5 RAID PERC 6 / i integrated. It has 3 hard drives SAS and is to show the Predictive Failure HARD drive for two SAS drives and each HARD drive is 400 GB. The same size disk is not available now and the seller as
How can I check the configuration on a PowerEdge T310 raid
Please how to check raid on a Dell PowerEdge T310 server configuration without restarting?
Add storage space to PE2950
We have a power Edge 2950 which has 8 bays of hard disk with only 3 GB 150 disks in a RAID 5 array, and we want to add a TB on this server for the storage of virtual machine. What will be the best way to do it. Can we just add a few hard drives for e
PowerEdge 2950 error - CONTROLLER RAID Baseport FC48h does not
Hi all I went in today to find the following on my PE 2950 problem: PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller Adapter at Baseport FC48h is not responding No adapter. The yellow light on the HARD drive Bay 0 Can someone help me solve this problem, there wa
CacheCade with a single SSD drive in R720xd flex bay?
Simple question: What happens to my table, when a single SSD drive breaks down, which was used as a ramdisk of CacheCade? Will simply continue to run with a reduced reading performance since everything will be just for the main table? Or the whole ta
T310 driver/Firmware that need updates
I have a server PowerEdge T310 shipped 04/08/2010. As far as I know, the only firmware update driver or never has firmware 1.50 BMC 1.92 just last week. I just want to ensure I have the rest/firmware drivers downloaded to complete the update process.
PowerEdge SC1435 - size limits of HARD drive?
Hello I have a PowerEdge SC1435 and have just tried to replace a 2 * 500 GB WD drives with WD 2 * 1 TB drives and I get "Unknown device" for the two SATA Port A & SATA Port B. Disks SATA III & BIOS v2.2.3 Am I missing something here? This server can
Controller RAID for C1100
Hi all I have a Dell Poweredge ("CloudEdge") C1100 server for use of laboratory at home. Bought by mistake a PERC 5 / i controller to make a table of 4 x 3 TB SATA drives RAID10. It works, but readers appear only as 2 TB because of the PERC 5 / i l
Reference Dell PERC H710P: Firmware hangs on Windows RTM 8.1 with the default driver
My H710P Dell (with the last FW A04) PERC was working completely fine with the driver 5.2.220.64 on Windows 8, until recently, I tried installing Windows RTM 8.1 on the machine, it caused hang FW at the launch of the Windows installation: 266 [Inform
Dell powerEdge t420, server windows 2008 R2, RAID5, partitioning problem
Hello [Dell powerEdge t420, windows 2008 R2, RAID5 Server] I have attached the picture of disk management. There are 1 extended partition in which it is 1 NTFS logical volume that completely fill the extended partition. But there is a small green fre
State C with R610 and R710 issues have been corrected?
Hello Earlier when we bought a few PE R710s we had problems with memory errors that were caused by the C States being enabled in the BIOS. Dell support has recommended that we have disabled all States of C and that solved the problem. It returned to
POWEREDGE 2900 III NOISE
Hi, we are planning to buy a few PE 2900 to perform simulations and store data. I not read messages on how noisy is the new EP. I would like to have some quantitative information on noise level, expressed in dB and not with adjectives (a little bit,