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June 13th, 2011 23:00
PowerEdge 1750 really doesn't want to work
Ok, so I just got this Dell PowerEdge 1750 for free from a person whose company just upgraded to newer quad core Xeons. It seems to really hate me though. I got it with no hard drives and no ram. Ok, I can find hard drives somewhere and I've got ram. When I installed 2 chips of PC2700 Registered ECC 256 Mb DDR1 ram it powered on, had the blue power light but it was giving me an odd beep code of short-short-long-long-pause-long-long. This seemed kind of odd to me because it isn't documented. Then I tried some Corsair XMS Pro 1 Gb 438 MHz OC ram, the kind with the lights and no lights lit up at all and it still had the odd ball beep code. With the Corsair ram though it starts up with the blue light then switches to the blinking amber light after 15 seconds or so.
Does anyone know what is wrong with this system because this is supposed to be an upgrade over an AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 system.
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theflash1932
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June 14th, 2011 08:00
Memory ... The 1750 requires PC-2100 (DDR 266MHz) memory. In many systems, going higher than the recommended speed is supported and on some, while not supported, will work anyway, but servers are generally a bit pickier about its memory. Use supported memory ... PC-2100 on the 1750.
Amber light ... the light could be amber if there are no drives ONLY if there is a RAID configuration present on the controller and it recognizes a drive(s) is missing. Boot to CTRL-M prompt during POST to enter the configuration utility, choose Configure, then Clear. If that is why the light is amber, is should then turn blue. If it is amber for some other reason, then you can find out why in one of a few ways:
1. OpenManage Live to check hardware logs/status:
http://linux.dell.com/files/openmanage-contributions/omsa-54-live/omsa-54-040308.iso
2. Install the OS and OpenManage software to check the hardware logs/status:
http://ftp.dell.com/sysman/OM_5.5.0_ManNode_A00.exe
3. 32-bit Diagnostics:
http://ftp.dell.com/diags/DELL_32-BIT-DIAGNOSTICS_5114-2_R206154.exe
Compgeke
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June 14th, 2011 00:00
Ok, I managed to get it working using my cheapo Elpida PC2100 Registered ECC 512 Mb modules so it at least boots. Also after a little more reading I found out that the orange light may be blinking because it has no hard drives. Is this true?
Compgeke
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June 18th, 2011 21:00
Ok, I downloaded the open manage linux CD and ran the diagnostics on the disk. It says that the memory module in DIMM_1A is in critical condition and everything else passed. I'm going to run Memtest 86 now so see what's happened because this memory came out of my old server where it passed all memory tests and I've never had a BSOD or anything in Windows (but then again the primary memory in that is some OCZ PC3200 memory).