PowerEdge R770AP

This article details the most recent firmware version for Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 10 (iDRAC10), designed for Dell PowerEdge servers from the 17th generation onwards.

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.

In the world of technology, it is not uncommon to come across unfamiliar terms and acronyms. 17th Generation Servers introduce the Floating OCP Paddle Card (FLOP) Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) terminology.

This article provides the information about Dell OEM licenses for Windows Server. How to identify the COA Label and the steps to downgrade the Windows Server edition and the use in a virtual machine.

This article provides information about how to update your system's firmware from the Lifecycle Controller on Dell servers.

In Linux, NVMe drives connected behind a PowerEdge RAID Controller (PERC) may exhibit lower performance than expected during small I/O workload testing. This occurs because the OS identifies these drives as standard SCSI block devices (/dev/sdX) rather than native NVMe devices (/dev/nvmeXnX), leading to the application of suboptimal default I/O schedulers.

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.

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 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

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.

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

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

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

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.

This article provides an explanation of the backplane hard drive LED indicators.

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.

NVIDIA adapters (ConnectX NICs and DPUs) running firmware version xx.46.1006 may encounter NC‑SI communication failures, resulting in incorrect device reporting and visibility issues within management tools such as iDRAC and Redfish.

This article provides a brief introduction to the Intel® VROC and describes how to configure it on Dell PowerEdge servers.

PowerEdge: Dell service support for end of industry production of 2.5" 15k RPM SAS hard drives

How to Subscribe to receive Dell Driver and Firmware Update notifications for PowerEdge Servers. To ensure optimal performance and stability for your Dell system, be aware of the latest updates available for the drivers and firmware. There are several systems to do this as explained in the article below.

The PowerEdge embedded LifeCycle Controller provides a simplified method for installation of supported Windows Server and Linux server operating systems with the OS Deployment feature. This article explains how to use the iDRAC LifeCycle Controller to install a supported operating system on most Dell PowerEdge servers. Step-by-step instructions and OS installation videos for Windows Server, Ubuntu Server LTS, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation with LifeCycle Controller