Dell E7470 + E-dock + Dual monitors; monitors disconnecting (flash) randomly
I'm deploying Dell Latitude E7470's w/ the E-Dock (PRO3X) + dual P2417H monitors. Monitors are connected by DVI and VGA.I have reports on (3) just deployed systems where the monitors are disconnecting...
View ArticleIs this old Dell Latitude the best laptop for engineers ever?
Who supports mechanical or civil engineers? Did you have a bunch of Dell Latitudes in your arsenal circa 2011-2014?Today on HardBoiled I explore why an old Dell Latitude might be the best laptop for...
View ArticleBring back DVD+/-RW on Dell Laptop
ok-I have 2 Dell latitudes that lost access to their optical drives. Win10 Pro 64bit update 1607 - anniversary edition.both have had Virtual CloneDrive and ImgBurn installed along with AnyDVD.One one...
View ArticleDell PowerEdge RAID 1 hard drive failure
Good evening,We have a Dell PowerEdge R410 setup in a RAID 1 (mirror with 2 drives) and RAID 5 (4 drives). Recently, one of the (2) 150GB hard drives died in the RAID 1 mirror set. I've replaced...
View ArticleKudos to Dell Support
Normally when we get a thread here about OEM hardware support the OP is pissed off because of the crappy support received. This is a different thread.Saturday afternoon I called Dell support about my...
View ArticleDell WYSE thin clients (C90LEW) need Endpoint protection?
Do these need endpoint protection? If so, is there a specific version for thin clients?
View ArticleDell UPS went into standby randomly
So last night at around 11:00pm our UPS (Dell 2700W Rack UPS with EBM) decided to go on standby and we received an email from the ULNM stating "Communication with the device has failed".Once I got it...
View ArticleDell PERC H710P Raid Question
I asked in a previous post if I should go with Raid 5 or 10 and I did some digging about our current setup and I wanted to know If I could add another Raid Group to my current running systemBack story...
View ArticleTouchpad and Bios Version
I just had the strangest thing happen. We have a Latitude E7240 that was getting a motherboard replacement under warranty. Dell sent a technician to do the swap, which ended with the technician asking...
View ArticleDell Powervault MD3200i iscsi port question
This may be a bit vague, but for a newer (say, 6 months old) PV MD3200i, would there be an option for 10gb iscsi ports or would the only option have been 1gb?
View ArticleRAID 5 Question
Hello,We have a Dell PowerEdge T710 with ESXi on it. According to ESXi it is a RAID5 setup. When booting it appears that one of the drives has failed. Obviously this drive needs to be replaced as...
View ArticleDell Precision T7500 with Nvidia Quadro 5000 BSOD beginning this month
Hi,One of our engineers has a Dell Precision T7500 with an Nvidia Quadro 5000 video card that began showing BSOD this month.The pc will boot to safe mode fine but won't boot to regular Windows without...
View ArticleDell Lifecycle Controller Firmware
Has anyone run into the issue with after updating firmware on a Dell box (we have a PowerEdge R730) where you hop on the lifecycle controller and check for firmware again (after a successful update of...
View ArticleDell PowerVault MD -- Lost connection to server -- NEED HELP!
After a series of power outages I have lost connection to a Dell PowerVault MD array from the server. Windows server is asking to initialize the disk, apparently it's not able to read the MBR on disk....
View ArticleDell Hell...
So I saw that Dell had a deal going on recently where you could get a "free TV" with the purchase of select computers. And since I needed both, Ithought this would be the perfect opportunity....I...
View Article3040/5040/7040 Differences
Hi Guys and GalsOur supply for the 9020's we normally get has dried up. Aside from Dell's moronic good/better/best grading on the tiers, i can't find any info on the tiers. What is the actual...
View ArticleDell’s Path to Open Networking - Open Sources OS10 Open Edition
Earlier this year, Dell announced a collaboration with Microsoft on Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (better known as SONiC). SONiC is a “a collection of open source software networking...
View ArticleHow to get all drives details Model, brand name raid config.... from CMD line
Dear All,I am looking to have serial numbers, models of my hards from Cmd promptusing server with Raid ArrayI tried wmic diskpart get serialnumber but I had something different any reply or help would...
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is there anyway I can configure my laptop to always connect to a second screen?
When I come into the office I always have to press Windows Key + P to go to Second Screen , but is there anyway I can prevent from always doing this when I connect my laptop to my docking station in...
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