If the Express card works, you need the Enterprise card. See if the system finds the Express card. Power down (completely - power cords disconnected) and remove the Enterprise card (if installed). Your first step is to find out which card is bad. On systems which always have an Express card, there is usually a retention spring across the top of the card - on systems where it is optional, it is usually held in with a blue plastic pin. On other G11 servers like the R310, the Express card is optional. On the R710, the Express card is required or the system will complain. Either Express or Enterprise is $20-ish on eBay. One is the iDRAC Express (always installed) and the other is the Enterprise upgrade (different slot, gives you dedicated Ethernet and SD slot). Option 2 would be if someone could tell me how I could pull it out if it is nuked so I don't have to deal with the myriad of warnings and delayed boot that it causes.Īny help or guidance is much appreciated!Ĭlick to expand.On the R710, there are two iDRAC daughtercards. Please someone tell me I haven't just nuked my iDRAC/LC and there's a way I can reflash them somehow. System Services is also disabled so I can't get into Lifecycle Controller either. I ran through the OM disk again but it won't detect it so I can't reflash it that way. That has left the iDRAC in an unusable state and the BIOS can't connect. After waiting a few hours and no progress, I finally rebooted the box to try again. Midway through the flash of the Lifcycle/iDRAC controllers through the OM disk, the fans spun up and it was clear something went sideways. Everything went well on #1 and #2 and they are happy and up to date. Turns out the Lifecycle Controller was too old to go through auto updates, so I had to find an old CentOS OM disk to get them updated to the point it will work through Lifecycle Controller. I have 3 Dell R715s and have been going through hell getting them updated the last couple days.
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