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I'm looking for help diagnosing an intermittent hardware issue on an HPC node and would appreciate any insight into whether this points to a motherboard/SATA/backplane problem, a power issue, or ...
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I have a Supermicro 2U chassis with a power distributor board PDB-PT826-S4824 in it. And it should have support for the nVidia L40 graphics card. It has 2 8-pin +12V connectors for powering PCIe ...
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I have an APC Smart-UPS SRT 10000 and need to replace the battery. Would something bad happen if I replace it while it's still plugged in and powered on? Or do I need to shut down the servers and ...
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I have a Dell Poweredge R720 server with 2x redundant 750 Watt power supplies. If I wanted to upgrade those to 1100 Watts without shutting down the server and go through the process of hot swapping ...
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This Ubuntu server has two PSUs, I just ran ipmitool and it reported as follows: # ipmitool sdr type "Power Supply" PMBPower1 | DFh | ok | 10.0 | 624 Watts PMBPower2 | E4h | ...
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Hello fellow Sysadmins. A C220 M4 with the latest recommended firmware I am working on displays the following fault messages on latest version diagnostics at Server Health: PSU1 PSU1_PWRGD: Power ...
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In contrast to consumer grade PSUs, server PSUs sometimes come without cables. From what I gather, these are usually of the redundant variety or so called "1+1" configuration. I wander if ...
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A common "gotcha" with computers can happen when power gets cut to the computer without warning. Because the system loses power suddenly, it doesn't have a chance to flush cached filesystem ...
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I have a number of Dell PER740 servers running iDRAC 9 in a lab. As they are in a lab, I only need/want/have capacity for one power supply connected to each server. However, I cannot find a way to ...
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Apologize for my inexperience or if I am missing something important here... Everyone kept talking about how good it is to have redundant power supply in servers, yet no one talks about a redundant ...
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I've got a system that looks like it's going to be kept around "just in case" (virtualization has already been explored). Long ago I had another such system but when when it needed to be ...
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I have a server with two 1600W power supply units (a Gigabyte GS-R22PHL if that helps). Should I assume the maximum rated power is 1600W, and that the second unit is for redundancy, or that the ...
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I have a Dell T420 and read different ways to upgrade it to redundant PSU's. Details I saw on Dell's website a thread where a user asked how to upgrade to a redundant PSU versus the single 550psu. ...
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There's two parts to my question: Does it make sense to hook up a dual PSU server to an ATS to speed up failover to the secondary circuit? If yes, does it make sense to use two separate ATSes to ...
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I have a Tower server with today many hard drives and i would like to add hard drives for securing a raid group and also to extend storage capacity. Hardware spec before adding everything else : PSU :...

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