PowerEdge R670

Dust or chemical contamination at the endface of a fiber optic LC connector or transceiver module impedes signaling. Dell engineering teams have verified cases in which a fully functional port appears to be a bad port because dirty optical connectors manifest as a port failing loop testing with acceptable power measurement levels. Cable connectors should be cleaned and when stored must be protected from dust particle or chemical contamination.

This article details the procedure to troubleshoot power supply unit (PSU) issues that may arise on a PowerEdge Server.

Dell PowerEdge servers with common design components are grouped into generations, for example PowerEdge 17th generation servers, 16th generation, 15th generation, or 14th generation. This article provides general guidance for PowerEdge server model naming convention to identify the generation and common components. This article also lists all PowerEdge servers by model including type, CPU, generation, and remote management components.

The BIOS processor settings on 17G PowerEdge servers do not have the option to disable virtualization technology.

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.

R7725, R6725, R7715, and R6715 the number of CPU Cores is not recognized correctly.

This article provides a high‑level guide to downloading vendor‑specific firmware and drivers for common PowerEdge NICs such as NVIDIA, Broadcom, and Intel. These processes complement Dell Update Packages (DUPs) and are used when vendor‑specific firmware or drivers are required beyond Dell’s updates.

PowerEdge 14G, 15G, 16G, and 17G servers skip Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) boot when an "Unavailable" entry is last in the boot order.

Dell PowerEdge 17G servers record inaccurate CPU index within iDRAC10 life cycle Log (LCLOG) and System event log (SEL) when machine check event (MCE) is recorded.

Dell PowerEdge 17G Intel servers may record memory module temperature warning events in the Lifecycle Log and System Event Log during the server cold boot sequence.

Settings are not saved in UEFI Boot Settings if more than one setting is changed.

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

Information about the technical specifications pertaining to the hardware and software components of Dell Rack and Tower PowerEdge servers

Dell iDRAC9 and iDRAC10 remediations are available for multiple security vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

This KB is to provide information about Dell customized VMware ESXi support stance on the Dell 17th generation of PowerEdge servers. The 17th generation of PowerEdge servers is based on Intel® Xeon® 6500P/6700P (Granite Rapids SP) and AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series Processor (Turin).

Dell Micron 7450 and 7500 Non-Volatile Memory Express solid state drives may encounter drive initialization failure due to a firmware issue, resulting in the solid state drives being unrecoverable.

This article provides information about Intermittent High Fan Speeds on Dell 17G PowerEdge Servers with NVIDIA ConnectX-6 OCP Cards installed.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for a Tianocore EDK2 Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

This article explains iDRAC and BIOS settings that disable or limit iDRAC Direct functionality

Seagate Skybolt and SkyboltServoBP drive fails with medium format corrupted errors.

On Dell PowerEdge 17G servers using Broadcom 5719 QP OCP NX1 cards (DPN M2PYY), firmware installation fails when Secure Boot is enabled on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). Additionally, the installed firmware version is not detected by the Operating System (OS). Disabling Secure Boot allows the firmware to install and be detected correctly.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for NVIDIA Bluefield, ConnectX and DOCA vulnerabilities that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

This article explains different methods to reset, power drain or perform a virtual AC cycle.

This article provides information about key capabilities of Dell PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers, the types of servers offered based on usage purposes, and a brief introduction to the Systems Management tools to discover, manage, monitor, and upgrade server components.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for 2025.3 Intel Platform Update (IPU) components that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

This article explains how to address the error "The system has found a problem on your machine and cannot continue. Unable to restore the system configuration. A security violation was detected". Purple screen / Purple screen of Death (PSOD)

This article outlines the actions required to prepare a system for retirement or repurposing using the LifeCycle controller.

Understand and troubleshoot PowerEdge hard disk drives, RAID, PowerEdge RAID Controller, and other storage hardware such as cables, backplane, so forth.

This article provides PowerEdge server troubleshooting for No Power, No POST, No Boot and No Video issues. This includes blade, rack, and tower servers.

This is the latest version of the Dell OpenManage Enteprise 4.0 Support Matrix.