Is it possible to view power supply information of a remote Windows (2008) server? It's a Dell Poweredge R720
The physical server is in a remote location and I only have RDP access. I can't see anything looking at the system information.
Ideally I…
I have a x3100 M5 Lenovo/IBM machine that is being used as file server. As of yesterday it had two 2.5" Samsung SSD's plugged in. Today I tried plugging in 2 x 3.5in 4TB hard drives, and when I tried to boot up the machine, I would hear the fans…
No idea why the server is making this sound and as you can tell, it's very annoying.
Taking out the bad section of the hot swappable power supply does not stop the sound.
Anyone have an idea why it's making this sound?
I took a video of the server…
All of a sudden, the power supply of a server started to smell real bad. One of the hot swappable power supply units died. We replaced it, booted up Windows Server 2003 to find out that 2 out of 4 drives in a RAID 5 configuration had died.
We're…
SERVER: Dell T410
Raid Controller: Perc 6/i
What is the best way to diagnose root cause of failed drives?
Back story:
So I had a 4-drive Raid 10 + 1 hot spare setup. This setup worked for years, about 3 months ago, one drive died, and the hot spare…
I have 3 Supermicro AS-1042G-TF servers and on one there is no data shown for power supply, JAVA application for MAC shows an empty window as do IPMIView apps for iOS and Android, on Android there is a message: "cannot detect slave address".
I…
I have a megaraid 9260-8i with a 4 disc raid 5. For 6 months or more the array has been performing beautifully, but recently the hardware alarm went off and the status said one of the drives was missing.
I took the drive out and tested it, but…
I have a HP Proliant DL380 G8 server that for the past couple of weeks, just suddenly dies. It's happened twice today. The lights on the HDD are just lit instead of blinking, and there is no response from the server. One of the LED is red every time…
We have a HP DL360 G6 server connected to APC Back-UPS 1100 (BX1100CI-RS). The server sometimes unexpectedly reboots (administrator gets the "select the reboot reason" window after logon). According to UPS s/w PowerChute Personal Edition, only some…
After a power failure, my server cant boot anymore.
Switching power on do nothing. No fans, no boot, no sound. Nothing.
Shorting the power switch on the motherboard also do nothing.
My motherboard is a Supermicro MB and have IPMI on it. I can…
I have an old MGE Switched PDU unit.
The one described in this manual: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/102923/Mge-Ups-Systems-Switched-Pdu.html
I didn't use it in years and couldn't remember the admin password of the unit.
I reset it to factory…
I have HP ProLiant DL380 G6 server. It is showing following errors.
1611- Fan 1 missing,
1611- Fan 2 missing,
1611- Fan 3 missing,
1611- Fan 4 missing,
Fan Solution Not Sufficient,
1615- Power Supply Failure or Power Supply Unplugged in bay 1
I…
We have a DELL 8MM01 server that won't start-up. When we try to power it up an amber light slowly flashes at the back. When we push the button next to this light it changes to a flashing blue.
The server won't start-up... Any idea if these lights…
I got OVERSPEC, PS1 and PS2 fault led on my x3650. I tried to replace one PS but nothing changes. The power supplyp seems to work properly and it is very strange to broke both PS at the same time.
I tried to reset the system log, reboot, but these…
I am trying to put an NVIDIA Tesla K20C into a Dell PowerEdge R720xd. I'm having a bit of trouble understanding the power requirements of the card.
First, here is a picture of two pages of the same manual, which seems contradictory to me. One…