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Equallogic mismatch firmware with NVRAM

November 21, 2019, 9:25 am
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I recently got an off lease PS6100E with dual controllers that previous owner removed the micro SD cards from. It powers up and I get an error in CLI that micro SD cards are missing. Luckily I have a few PS6100x units and access to various firmware revisions that I stored from the time I still had access to them when they were under contract. So I went on a missing to resurrect PS6100E by duplicating one of the micro SD cards from PS6100x since they use the same firmware.

The problem is I don't know what firmware versions PS6100E ran on before the micro SD cards were taken out of it. Needless to say I did not get lucky. Firmware from my PS6100x was a different version and I got the notorious firmware mismatch error:

The NVRAM version currently running on the array does not match the version saved in NVRAM.

Current version: 16

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Dell Server Extendd Warranty

November 21, 2019, 11:20 am
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Hi, thank you for everyone that has helped me with some great guidance on here. For our medical business we have a 3 year old Dell R730 that is working great with Server2012 soon to be 2019. It is a DC and besides being a file server/DHCP/DNS we run our medical database software off it (it is a SQL server based software). It's warranty is nearing an end this December and from reading articles it sounds like it is a waste of money to extend (2 years is like $900 just for basic). The current server provides the database and file sharing for about 15 clients (going up to 24 in a few months). We have a backup computer set up as a server for replication and in case the database goes down but not meant for an extended use if it goes down.Seeing if anyone had any suggestions of what models/general specs to get for a used backup server on like...

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"Critical error message" after pre boot diagnostic

November 22, 2019, 9:54 am
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I have a machine that has been having some strange behavior. Machine is up to date on its Windows updates, latest BIOS version installed. Machine is a Dell Precision laptop. 

Anyways after the test completed the only message that came up was "Critical Error Message" 
"Testing completed one or more errors were detected" no error codes are ever given just this message. I hit okay and I am back at the test.
Does anyone know what that message means and how to get more information on it?
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Trying to Deploy Dell Driver updates through PDQ

November 22, 2019, 10:09 am
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I have just deployed Windows 10 on a variety of Dell computers. The driver pack from the website was built into the image, but many of those drivers have been updated. I downloaded multiple drivers from the Dell website and created a package in PDQ Deploy to push them out to specific computers. All drivers are .exe files and I used the /s switch in the package. A couple of them failed with a return code of 2 so I adjusted the package to continue on error so all the drivers would get installed. With the exception of the error code 2, the rest of them showed success.

Users rebooted, I went to check the driver version and none of them have changed. Users are Standard Users on the Windows 10 machines.

I am looking for any suggestions or insight if you successfully do this, how you do it, what I might be doing wrong or need to change, etc....

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Dell Server Extended Warranty

November 21, 2019, 11:20 am
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Hi, thank you for everyone that has helped me with some great guidance on here. For our medical business we have a 3 year old Dell R730 that is working great with Server2012 soon to be 2019. It is a DC and besides being a file server/DHCP/DNS we run our medical database software off it (it is a SQL server based software). It's warranty is nearing an end this December and from reading articles it sounds like it is a waste of money to extend (2 years is like $900 just for basic). The current server provides the database and file sharing for about 15 clients (going up to 24 in a few months). We have a backup computer set up as a server for replication and in case the database goes down but not meant for an extended use if it goes down.Seeing if anyone had any suggestions of what models/general specs to get for a used backup server on like...

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iDRAC 6 Enterprise R710- DHCP is not getting an IP from the network!

November 22, 2019, 5:20 pm
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Ok, this is my first attempt to deal with an enterprise grade server for my home lab. I got Dell PowEredge from eBay, connect it to the network; it got IP automatically, and then I start by configuring iDRAC settings. As far as I remember, there were two options I enabled before I lost the connection to iDRAC;
  1. Enabling IPMI;
  2. Enabling Vlan;
After that I completely lost the access to iDRAC and the server (which doesn't have any OS yet). The issue is I've to connect to it remotely, as none of the monitors I have, support VGA, and tried to use a couple of VGA-to-HDMI converters but no luck. I also tried to hold the little button beside the front led screen for 30 seconds to no avail :(

Now, I'm stuck and seeking for any advice, is there any way to hard reset the iDRAC configuration to its factory default? in order to obtain an IP again?

Any...

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Dell Poweredge r720 SD Module absent error, can't boot

November 24, 2019, 1:52 pm
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Hello all, I bought a Poweredge r720 off of eBay a long while ago, and am just now getting around to install it. When I first tried booting it up I got 3 errors:

RFLA2001 Internal Dual SD Module SD1 is absent.

RFLA2001 Internal Dual SD Module SD2 is absent.

RRDU0002 Internal Dual SD Module redundancy is lost.

I do not intend on using the SD Card Modules, but I am unable to get these errors to go away and it is preventing the machine for POSTing and further on. I can tried reseting the BIOS via the pins and pulling the battery, but I still get these errors. Is there some sort of keystroke that needs to be done during boot up that I do not know about? Anyone else encountered this issue? Any help is a appreciated. Thanks!

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Black Screen on bootup intermittently - Dell Precision 7530

November 25, 2019, 5:46 pm
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In a previous thread I attributed it to hibernation, but I've ruled that out by re-creating the Hiberfil.sys and turning off fast start startup and disabling hibernation. I cannot reliably recreate the issue, but 3 out of 4 times I shut down it will boot to the lock screen and the LCD will go black. if i have an external monitor connected, and it is set to duplicate, it shows up on the external monitor just fine.
Even with no external monitor connected, I can teamviewer into the machine and log in and get around and don't see any reason the screen is blank.If I play with the screen settings like changing the refresh rate, it will flash on for a second and go back to black. Only a HARD power off and restart gets the LCD to come back. But it's not the LCD. I can see that it's on, the backlights are on, and the machine POST graphics are...

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Dell Command Update 3.1 released...(command line support is back)

November 26, 2019, 2:15 am
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Raid Controller for Dell Power Edge T310

November 26, 2019, 3:23 am
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Picking up a cheap  Dell Power Edge T310 server for homelabs on ebay.

I know its soft/fake raid onboard so looking for a cheap raid controller for raid 0, 1, 5, 10, 50 that is compatible with esxi and the server.

Any recommendations?

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Dell Server RAID Setup Recommendations

November 26, 2019, 12:14 pm
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Hi Everyone,

We're getting ready to buy a new server to serve as a file server, and I was hoping to find out how everyone is configuring their RAID arrays/virtual disks these days, as well as what hard drives you are using. For reference, I've been running servers with something like the following for years:

  • PowerEdge 1U/2U server
  • PERC 710 controller
  • SAS 300GB 10K HDDs
  • One virtual disk RAID-5 array with multiple OS/data partitions

The Dell sales rep has sent me a quote for a PE R440 server with the following:

  • PERC H740P controller card
  • RAID-1 SSD boot volume with (2) SSDs
  • RAID-5 with (4) 1TB HDD array for data partitions

I've never run my OS partition on RAID-1, just a single RAID-5, is anyone else running this setup in their environment? Second, one of the options is just spec-ing the PE R440 with all SSDs. Has anyone run this long...

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Dell Latitude e6430 SSD bios setting

November 26, 2019, 6:11 pm
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Hi 

I have a Dell Latitude e6430 laptop, its older. I replaced the hard drive with an SSD. The bios doesn't recognize it. What setting in the bios need to be set so the bios will recognize the hard drive. I have verified that the SSD is seated correctly

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Need recommendation for VGA with 3 Outputs for Dell Optiplex 3020

November 26, 2019, 11:08 pm
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Hi Spiceworks community. 

I have a client who has 15 Dell Optiplex 3020 machines and he would like to connect each one with 3 Dell Monitors .

What would be the recommended low profile VGA card that can be connected to a 3 Monitors and consume too much power that may cause problems to the machine. 

here is a service tag for one of the machine to get the full specs : D3W10D2 

Installed OS : Windows 7.

Type of Monitors : Clinet didn't decide yet and we're open to any options that will lead to have 3 monitors connected to each machine.

Thanks in advance. 

Dell​ Dell OptiPlex 3020​ 

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tcpip.sys Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10

November 27, 2019, 10:25 pm
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Dear Colleagues,

When I using a laptop, the following error occurred. Any solutions available?

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2019-11-18T00:26:49.500000000Z

Thank you.

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QinQ on Dellx1052

November 28, 2019, 4:07 am
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Can I configure QinQ on Dell X1052 switch?

Who can help, please.

Thank so much in advance!

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Server operating system installation, doesn’t show virtual disk

November 28, 2019, 4:11 pm
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Can any one help, I have a Dell power edge r820 server, having RAID 5 configured with 3 ssd 2.5 inches. All physical disks are online. Have setup 2 virtual disks. First VD is setup as a default boot disk. When I boot through USB drive( f11) to install server operating system I can’t see any virtual disks it only shows SD card of 1gb available. I have already tried to change SATA settings under life cycle controller. Not sure what’s wrong any help would be really appreciated

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Dell OptiPlex Bios Update Not Starting

November 28, 2019, 9:17 pm
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I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 , purchased 2014 with Win 7 Pro. I have installed Win 10 Pro and downloaded drivers from Dell for the Win 10 Pro, one was an Urgent Bios update A25, the current Bios is A08. When you double click the exe it is suppose to reboot and do the update. The cursor blinks and then nothing, I tried Run as Administrator same thing. I went back and read and it sounds like this should work on it. It does mention to disable Bit Locker if it is on, but it is not on. I have not activated the copy of Win10 yet, but would not think that would stop a Bios update. The link has older Bios, do I need to upgrade all the way from the A08 in steps to get to the A25?

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Change RAID setting before upgrading Dell Precision T5500 to Windows 10

November 29, 2019, 5:56 am
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I've read that many people have successfully upgraded their Dell Precision T5500 to Windows 10, and the PC continues to work well. I have read that there can be upgrade difficulties, however.

My T5500 is set to RAID ON, and I gather that can be a problem while upgrading. I want to upgrade directly from Win 7 Pro 64-bit. BUT, if I change the RAID to AHCI, my PC may not boot into Win 7 and so I can't upgrade directly to 10.

Any advice on this matter?

I think I can uninstall the 'Intel Matrix Storage Manager' from Win 7 (instead of at boot up). Then upgrade to Win 10. Would that work?

Any other pre-upgrade advice greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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Dell EMC Server Storage Expansion (DAS)

December 3, 2019, 5:43 am
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Hi,

We might be working at a new site soon that has recently bought 3 x new Dell EMC R440 1U rack servers with almost 5 years warranty left. They are connecting all of these to a single ME4024 SAN for storage.

I would like to explore the possibility of moving them to a simpler and more resilient HCI server solution with data replication provided by StarWind.

The way we normally do this in similar sites (with very similar virtualisation workload) is to make a simple direct connected 2 node Hyper-V Failover Cluster (with DAS storage directly inside each server node). We then use StarWind to replicate the data and we end up with true HA shared-nothing HCI.

I haven't bought one of these expansion disk boxes for a server for many years but remember it all being fairly straight forward with HP hardware. This time I need to add additional DAS to...

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Latitudes blocking print driver dialog popup

December 3, 2019, 12:09 pm
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I am deploying new Win 10 systems. I have a Ricoh MPC-4503 configured with 2 print devices, one BW, one color. The color device has a custom driver which includes a popup dialog box to enter a user code (reason for this is not relevant here).

I can print to the color device successfully from new Precision (desktop) systems: dialog box comes up, enter code, print. When trying to print to the color device from Latitude laptops, however, the dialog box never comes up. The print job is sent without the code and then locks up the printer - hardware reset and print spooler restart are needed to clear stuck print jobs and allow others to print.

Both desktop and laptop systems are running same Win10 version, have same software installed. Laptop is on wired network, not wireless. Problem exists across multiple Latitude devices.

I do not see any...

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