Hello, thanks for choosing Dell. It's up to you that you get a new controller to try with we can not guarantee it's gonna fix the issue: it might not be the controller also the data safety will not be guaranteed.
Thanks for getting back to me - appreciate it might be something like a bus controller chip on the motherboard, but was just curious if there was some other obvious thing to try in order to bring the system back to life. I'll order the new RAID controller today.
Card is ordered - was hoping it would be here yesterday, but no such luck. Crossing fingers that it sorts things out.
Worst case its back to square one and another server from eBay (which is where this one came from - and it has lasted a few years, so I have no complaints really).
The new controller arrived, with what looks like a brand new (much flatter) battery. Swapped the units and I can now see the controller and the associated disks - currently saying no boot device, and I am feeling a little lazy and not wanting to drag a VGA monitor down to it (it lives in the basement).
Question: The virtual console, which you can launch from the iDRAC does not seem to want to work, and apparently this is because it uses Flash, which no browser on my machine (running Linux Mint) wants to let me use. Is there another way of getting a virtual console up? I am willing to run Windows for a short while in order to save my back
DELL-Young E
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March 29th, 2023 18:00
Hello, thanks for choosing Dell. It's up to you that you get a new controller to try with we can not guarantee it's gonna fix the issue: it might not be the controller also the data safety will not be guaranteed.
SOIJimbo
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March 30th, 2023 04:00
Hi,
Thanks for getting back to me - appreciate it might be something like a bus controller chip on the motherboard, but was just curious if there was some other obvious thing to try in order to bring the system back to life. I'll order the new RAID controller today.
Cheers!
Paul.
Praveen.Singh
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March 30th, 2023 08:00
Try to power drain the Server and prefix the card as well it might came up else you need a replacement card my friend.
SOIJimbo
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April 4th, 2023 04:00
Hi,
Card is ordered - was hoping it would be here yesterday, but no such luck. Crossing fingers that it sorts things out.
Worst case its back to square one and another server from eBay (which is where this one came from - and it has lasted a few years, so I have no complaints really).
Paul.
SOIJimbo
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April 4th, 2023 07:00
Hi All,
The new controller arrived, with what looks like a brand new (much flatter) battery. Swapped the units and I can now see the controller and the associated disks - currently saying no boot device, and I am feeling a little lazy and not wanting to drag a VGA monitor down to it (it lives in the basement).
Question: The virtual console, which you can launch from the iDRAC does not seem to want to work, and apparently this is because it uses Flash, which no browser on my machine (running Linux Mint) wants to let me use. Is there another way of getting a virtual console up? I am willing to run Windows for a short while in order to save my back
Thanks!
Paul.
DELL-Charles R
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April 4th, 2023 08:00
Hello SOIJimbo,
Try different virtual console plug in: recommend: HTML5. can also try: java, Native
If those don't work then try the Windows system.
For the Boot Device, try enter the PERC BIOS and the last tab, Management I think, make sure the correct VD is set as Boot VD.