PowerEdge XE7440

This article explains how to create and import an iDRAC certificate.

This article provides steps to troubleshoot a chassis intrusion, chassis open message for PowerEdge servers.

This document highlights minimum, recommended, and latest code versions for Dell Technologies PowerEdge products. We carefully evaluate and monitor code deployment data to ensure that product releases meet our stringent expectations to provide our customers with reliable products and solutions.

The below article is a workaround mechanism to recover PowerEdge systems from critical log entry "SWC5008 Unable to access Front LED Panel because of a hardware error condition" for a few versions of the iDRAC.

NVIDIA has updated the signing certificate for its UEFI network driver from Microsoft UEFI CA 2011 to Microsoft UEFI CA 2023. PowerEdge 17G platforms already trust the CA 2023 certificate, but 15G/16G and earlier servers require a BIOS update released in December 2025. Systems without this updated certificate support may fail to initialize the NIC UEFI driver when Secure Boot is enabled.

PowerEdge servers do not support operating system installation, or boot from direct CPU‑attached NVMe SSD drives if the metadata format size is not set to 0.

PowerEdge systems may not always log downgraded PCIe links in LifeCycle (LC) or system event logs (SEL).

Server BIOS Update Guidelines for Microsoft Secure Boot Certificates are provided in this article.

Encountering PR8 errors in the LifeCycle (LC) log when using a BlueField-3 (BF3) Data Processing Units (DPU) card (DPN: HFWRM).

The article provides the solution to the firmware update errors for ConnectX-4 LX NICs SWB 76DNG version 14.32.21.02 & ConnectX-5 dual port SWB 1GF8G version 16.35.40.30.

This article provides information about the LIC008 error seen when importing the IDRAC License.

This article provides information about CPU Machine Check errors and common causes and proper handling when errors are seen.

Unsure about the procedure to update a specific component's firmware in a PowerEdge system? Learn how to in this specific article.

Dell Samsung PM893 SSDs with Firmware HJ55 or Earlier Experience Premature SMART Failures

Dell Technologies advises against downgrading Hard Drive or SSD firmware, except in validated scenarios, due to unpredictable results and version reporting issues.

Using the Linux command "lspci -vvv" on PowerEdge XE9685L, the "LnkSta" value of the NVIDIA ConnectX-7 device is shown as "downgraded."

After a system restart, the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) may not display the Virtual Disk information intermittently.

PowerEdge servers crash with PCIe fatal errors while updating Kioxia CM6 NVMe drive firmware.

CPUs can be perceived to be hot while server is idle.

Seagate Summit SAS/SATA drives report medium errors or sense key 3/11 on PowerEdge and PowerVault systems due to a firmware issue causing weak writes to a drive sector.

PowerEdge: Broadcom NXE devices with Driver 229.2.73 (SWB: Y7T4X) may report that the interfaces are missing in the operating system when secure boot is enabled.

In some instances, the firmware update job may fail to initiate when performing a firmware update through available iDRAC interfaces.

OpenManage Enterprise integration for VMware vCenter may fail to Unmanage hosts with error "UNMANAGE_REMOVE_MEL_FAILURE"

Warning messages regarding "icen_SetRxQueueFilter" and "Failed to add cloud filter" in ESXi 8 VMware VMkernel log.

NVIDIA Mellanox OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) 23.10-0.5.5.0 driver package does not show Red Hat Linux 9.3 as a supported Operating System (OS) version.

The article describes how to troubleshoot network connectivity issues for network cards.

This article presents opportunities to understand and troubleshoot some common causes of fan noise in a PowerEdge server. It is also relevant for 100% fan speeds.

On Dell PowerEdge 14G servers using iDRAC9 in shared LOM configuration, an ISO image mounted using Remote File Share (RFS) may get unmounted intermittently.

This article describes how to view and clear the system event log (SEL) in System Setup.

This article describes how to find the iDRAC's current MAC address.