Dell Server: "The system board 5V PG voltage is outside of range."
Having a tough time narrowing down what issue we are having here.Unpredicatbly, our Dell Poweredge T320 will power off and will not power back on normally. The error message on the LCD screen and in...
View ArticleQuad Monitor setup with the DELL XPS15 1975
We have an XPS 15 1975 that we are trying to run a quad monitor setup on. It has 4 usb C ports. Two thunderbolt and two MST. In Addition we have TB 16 Dock. I have update all the drivers and bios. The...
View ArticleRaid on Dell R710 array with H700
I need to install larger hard drives on one of my R710 Raid arrays (H700) and can't find anyway to distinguish between the arrays. I don't want to remove the wrong hard drives. Two of them are the...
View ArticleDell Secure Manager Optiplex 990
I have a -1D3B hard drive message . Primary HDD is protected by a password authentication system.I can't get to my hard driveHELP
View ArticleServer getting stuck with "eco erase version: 5.0.13" message
Folks, A client have a server that one of the Hard Drive Failed and the server is not booting up getting stuck with this message, "Eco erase version: 5.0.13" Fingerprint By echo erase....check here:...
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Dell Lifecycle Update Stuck Running
I went into the Lifecycle Controller to do firmware updates today. OS Collector Update failed and iDRAC Update has been running well beyond the allowed task time. Suggestions? Let it run, reboot or...
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Dell Powedege x720 degraded mode
Hi,We are using 2 RAID6 VMs in under physicial server. (DEll Poweredge 720xd wth Perc card model H710p Mini)1.s Virtual disks are working fine but shown as degraded (can access everything in...
View ArticleDisk on same slot keeps on failing : DELL PE R710
Hi, Just want to check with you guys if you ever encounter Disk on same slot keeps on failing on DELL PE R710.I suspect the SAS/HDD backplane and then replaced but the next day the disk on slot 02...
View ArticleRefurbished Dell Latitude E series Laptops
Refurbished Dell Latitude E series Laptops became available at one of my 3rd party re-sellers saying that they are state of the art laptops, faster than ever and powerful than ever.Just to give you an...
View ArticleDell - New type BIOS corruption - fix
SO.... this is more a knowledge article, and I figured as it took me several hours of testing, trawling, headbutting walls I would post this to help everyone in the future.Scenario:I had a Vostro...
View ArticleMDT 2013 UEFI Win10 Deployment Fails - Boot Drive not Found - Dell Latitude 7290
I am having some difficulty deploying a Windows 10 Enterprise image to a Dell Latitude 7290 via MDT 2013. We've previously just imaged using legacy BIOS and MBR, but I wanted to utilize UEFI w/ Secure...
View ArticleNew Dell Optiplex 5060 and MDT
Hey All,I have an updated MDT/ADK server going with LiteTouch deployment setup. I can run it successfully on an older Optiplex 7010. It will not run on this new 5060 though. I've disabled Secure Boot,...
View ArticleHow do you manage BIOS and firmware updates for your workstations?
I support a 100 workstation company, with pure Dell PCs, laptops, servers, etc. I have OpenManage Essentials for deploying BIOS, IDRAC, firmware, drivers, etc to servers. What do YOU use for the client...
View ArticleDell blade-server ( Model M1000)
Hello Experts,We have a Dell blade-server ( Model M1000) which has a few servers on it. Our KVM does not recognize it so, I connected a monitor to its VGA monitor port, but I just see a "Free" message...
View ArticleWhy cant I create more RAID 1 disks in one go?
Hi guys ,I've just recently expanded a card slot from 6 enclosures to 8 enclosures. basically I added in 2 enclosures. In this expansion card, virtual disks have not been added since the infrastructure...
View ArticleServer and SQL Licences for VRTX Servers
Hoping someone can help clarify this one.I have 2 identical VRTX chassis, each one has 2 blades in them with some shared storage they are in effect replicas, 1 for prod and 1 for DR. Both running ESXI...
View ArticleDell Battery Return
Hello.So it seems Dell has changed their battery return process. We have had many M3800 laptops with an "expanding Battery" issue which can mess up the touchpad and actually separate the case from the...
View ArticleWhy does my desktop keeping powering down?
Hi all,I've been on Spice Works for a couple months now, mostly browsing. I figured I would go ahead and ask for help as to why my computer might be powering off. A little background first, I started...
View ArticleDell Wyse Thin Client 3040 - Locked out of Administrator Mode in Classic Desktop
Hello,An end user's Thin Client (Dell Wyse 3040 - ThinOS 8.3.2) stopped booting to the login screen and no longer will even grab an IP address when connected to the network. On the ThinClients desktop...
View ArticleDell Poweredge R620 power supply swap
PS1 went bad on our Poweredge R620. It is still running fine off of PS2. New power supply is ordered. Is it as simple as pulling PS1 out and sliding the new power supply in? These are hot...
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