PowerEdge XE7740

This article presents opportunities to understand and troubleshoot some common causes of fan noise in a PowerEdge server.

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

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for Intel® Processors and Intel® Ethernet Controllers & Adapters vulnerabilities that may be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

How to use the PowerEdge Server ePSA tools to stress test the CPU.

This article provides information about how to use the LCC to deploy a supported OS.

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 Intel® Server Firmware Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for 2026.1 Intel Platform Update (IPU) components that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for 2026.1 Intel Platform Update (IPU) components that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

Dell PowerEdge Server remediation is available for 2025.4 Intel Platform Update (IPU) components that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected systems.

Dell PowerEdge Server BIOS remediation is available for a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Vulnerability that could be exploited by malicious users to compromise the affected system.

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.

This is the start-up page for a new Dell PowerEdge Server with an Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC). The article details system installation, use of the iDRAC, LifeCycle Controller (LCC) configuration, and installing an operating system.

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.

On Dell PowerEdge 17G servers equipped with factory installed industry standard ConnectX 6 Dx cards, applying the Mellanox ConnectX 6 Dx firmware update from within the operating system may fail to detect all adapters. This can result in incomplete firmware updates in multi card configurations. This limitation does not apply to OEM Dell branded cards.

Information about servicing and troubleshooting issues in your Dell PowerEdge Rack and Tower servers' hardware and System Management tools

This article provides the recommended steps to help troubleshoot memory-related events on Dell PowerEdge servers.

Dell 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.

Explore various RAID levels - RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10 - implemented in Dell PowerEdge servers. Learn about their configurations, benefits, and how they impact data redundancy and performance.

PowerEdge connected Dell NVMe SSDs with the Limited Retry (LR) bit set may experience an increase in failures due to elevated media and data‑integrity error rates.

This article explains how to use iDRAC Direct to manage your PowerEdge server.

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

It is a common misconception that if a PowerEdge server fails to boot, does not complete POST, or experiences other issues, the iDRAC will also be inaccessible. In reality, iDRAC is often still online and available to assist with troubleshooting—even if it was never configured beforehand. Leveraging iDRAC to review recent events, analyze logs, and collect a SupportAssist Collection (TSR) is critical for accelerating diagnosis and recovery.

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.

The login may fail when a user who is a member of a nested Active Directory (AD) group tries to log in to iDRAC10 using AD authentication.

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

This article provides information about the VLT0204 error code and guidance.

When working on internal components of a Dell computer, follow the safety precautions that are provided in this article to avoid any harm on the hardware.

This article describes how to install RACADM on VMware ESXi and demonstrates how to change the iDRAC IP address using RACADM commands.

In some situations Dell Technical Support may request evidence to perform a more assertive diagnosis, this article illustrates how to attach files to your service request through the Dell support portal.