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Dear Dell Community,
I am new to the dell community. Recently I procured a new dell r720 server with two intel xeon six-core processors, 64 GB RAM, 2TBx4 SAS HDD with PERC H710P and an Nvidia Quadro K2000 GPU. Since the day it has arrived we have been able to successfully install CentOS 6.6 OS and every thing seems to be working fine. However, I would like to know as how I should proceed with the following matter:
During boot when I see the dell logo and the progress bar on my screen, if I press the F2 key to enter the system options, I get a blank screen with a cursor blinking in the top left corner of my screen. The system stays in this state until I power it off by pressing the power button or restart the machine by pressing Alt+Ctrl+Del.
The same thing happens when I press the F11 key for PXE boot.
During boot when the system prompts to press the Ctrl-S key for network options and the Ctrl-R for RAID options, I can successfully access the network and RAID configurations.
If I insert a dvd and press no keys during the boot for accessing any options, the machine reads the dvd and I am able to install my OS.
Is there some setting which need to be made or is there a hardware fault. How can I diagnose this issue? I hope I have expressed issue clearly. If any further information is required please do not hesitate to ask.
Best Regards
Sohaib
DELL-Chris H
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Posted November 12th, 2014 07:00
MSI-PK,
It sounds like the embedded video may have been disabled. With the Nvidia you have installed, how is it configured? If the embedded is disabled and it is using the GPU, you can get graphics within the OS, but the BIOS and Drac interfaces both run on the embedded video.
Let me know what you see.
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Thanks for the prompt reply. After reading your post I have yet to figure out the BIOS configuration of my system and how the Nvidia is configured. Can you guide me as to how I can check what are the BIOS settings?
I can access the iDRAC express at the defualt IP address and using the default user ID and password. and I am able to SSH into the iDRAC as well.
Regards
Sohaib
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I have a Dell PowerEdge R610. it has dual intel Xeon Hex core Processors (2.26 Ghz Each) and 2 4Gb of ram memory. When I add new ddr3 dmm server ram to it it does not display anything on my monitor but when I remove the newly installed ram then it displays on my monitor just fine. any way to fix this.
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Posted May 25th, 2020 06:00
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Posted November 18th, 2014 02:00
I would like to mention that I have solved my problem of not being able to log into the system's BIOS. This is because how the nvidia is configured. Since the system uses the embedded video controller for BIOS display, the nvidia card has to be disconnected. Therefore I am marking this thread as solved.
Many Thanks
Sohaib