Dell Vostro 2520 Wireless Utility Missing?
Have a user with a Dell Vostro 2520. Restored Win7 32-bit due to failed hard disk. No issues with anything except the wireless.Dell's downloads has several wifi drivers, found the applicable one in...
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VRTX and vlans
Hello,My vrtx setup has been running nice for 10months now.. setup is 2 blade hyper-v cluster and 1 backup blade. Im currently running 4x vm and now i need to isolate 1 vm to different vlan(dmz). The...
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Can I upgrade to 15k SAS on this DELL R610 that has SATA drives?
hi spiceheads,need some help from the hardware wizards.I have this dell r610 that has two 7.2k SATA drives, I would like to upgrade these to two 15k SAS drives. Can I just buy the SAS and use the...
View ArticleMy First BIOS Update Failure
Please advise. I'm at a loss.Dell XPS M1730Applied BIOS rev. 11 (Laptop was running hot and rev 11 applies better cooling by speeding up fans)Laptop Stuck in Splash screen loop.- Before applying BIOS...
View ArticleScanning powerconnect 5424 with Spiceworks
Can someone please give me a step by step on setting SNMP on my Powerconnect 5424 so I Can scan it with spiceworks?I've posted about it before, thought it was working but its not. Just looking for a...
View ArticleOptiplex 780 Win8.1 drivers
Hi I'm looking for usb drivers for a dell OptiPlex 780 running Win8.1. I've seen on the dell website that there are no drivers, is there another source that I could use?Other than this driver the...
View ArticleDell Support Service for Expired Warranties
I found this last week when a coworkers' XPS mainboard died and the cost of the replacement was nearly $400 not including labor. He is sending it off to Dell and should have it back within 10 days. The...
View ArticleDell M4800 RHEL 6.4 Install "detecting hardware"
Attempting to install RHEL 6.4 on Dell M4800 laptop. During boot from RHEL dvd media receive 'detecting hardware' and then hang (installation stops). Suspicious of Seagate hybrid hard drive. Any other...
View ArticleDell OpenManager Essentials (OME)
Does OME (v2.0) have to be installed on a domain controller or running of a member server should suffice? Thanks. Alex.
View ArticleReplacing older drives with newer drive versions in a Dell PERC RAID Controller?
Does anyone here know if Dell PERC controllers will take newer types of drives that are the same size as the current drives?I've just found that there are 1TB consumer grade drives in a RAID array and...
View ArticleDell PE 2970 PERC 6/i All drives flashing health icon (brand new drives)
I got this server as a freebie from a friend. No harddisks or caddies, so I got some caddies off eBay and I had a ton of spare Hitachi 500Gb SATA drives laying around. Firmware all updated,...
View ArticleHow Do You Enable Administrator Mode? (Dell Wyse T10 - Thin Client)
Hello everyone,Ever since Dell bought Wyse, we are now having troubles getting into the Administrator Mode. The interface are slightly different and on the old Wyse thin clients, we were able to get...
View ArticleKace T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE Issue, Sigh, Again it's broken
Once again Kace Support lives up to, well, not much. I upgraded from 6.0.x to 6.2.x and Kace broke. Child tickets now bring up "Oops, something went wrong." Calls to support yield, "Yup, it's a bug...
View ArticleDell servers max operating temparature - alerts and shutdown
We just recently had an incident, where our data center AC failed and the servers all starting becoming excellent objects for frying eggs on.I'm setting up temp alerts for all the servers and wanted to...
View ArticleWhat adapter will properly mount a 2.5" SSD in a standard Optiplex 3.5 caddy?
I have multiple models of Optiplexes, which all use identical (or nearly identical) 3.5" blue caddys. We're replacing the 3.5" drives with 2.5" SSDs.I've tried an assortment of 9 different 2.5/3.5...
View ArticlepfSense in Dell Server r720
I can not install pfsense in dell server r720. I do not fond Hard-disc. How to do process. thinks.
View ArticleDell R710 Rails
Hi If there is anyone out there who have unwaned (no longer needed) set of this rails?
View ArticleOutput Issues on Dell Vostro Desktops
Greetings,I recently took over as a sys admin at a charter school that has 31 Dell Vostro 230 and 220s desktops, which they were hoping to image and deploy to a new lab.Initially, they seemed to work...
View Articledell wireless laptop
I was wondering if anyone came across using wireless laptops with out ethernet ports and if so how were you able to join them to your domain. I have dell inspirion 15 3000 series and they do not have...
View ArticleDell Wyse Device Manager ZeroClients ThreadX
Hello everyone,I have a bit of a problem on my hands. So far we've always used IGEL Thinclients, but had the grand idea of trying out ZeroClients by Wyse with the WDMI have come exactly as far as...
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