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Dell Poweredge 1600sc won't stop beeping
I am pretty sure I know why it is beeping (I have to rebuild one of the SCSI raided drives) but I was wondering, is there anyway I can turn this eardrum shattering constant beeping off while it is rebuilding the drive?
Can you pull the 4 wire speaker cable? or is the speaker intergrated into the motherboard?
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Is there a RAID BIOS you can boot into. On my old Adaptec RAID controllers you could silence the alarm in there.
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I think the answer you are looking for is, unfortunatly no. Get the drive rebuilt as soon as possible. For the redneck approach (not meant to offend anyone) put a large piece of duct tape over that darn speaker until its done. =)
I had the same issue with a Dell PowerEdge 2650 and PERC 3/DC Raid controller. I found the solution in a Dell support forum. Here a link to the thread:http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=pes_hardrive&thread.id=26879&jump=true&c=us&l=en&cs=&s=gen
In SCSI PERC cards made by LSI (PERC 3 PCI Cards and all PERC 4), you can silence or disable the alarm from the Raid controlelr BIOS (accessed by CTRL-M during POST).
Go to Objects -> Adapter -> Alarm Control
There you will have three options:
Silence: Silences the alarm until the next reboot
Disable: Turns the alarm off, you will have to return to this point and enable the alarm if you ever want to hear it again.
Enable: turns the alarm on after is has been disabled
In SCSI PERC cards made by LSI (PERC 3 PCI Cards and all PERC 4), you can silence or disable the alarm from the Raid controlelr BIOS (accessed by CTRL-M during POST).
Go to Objects -> Adapter -> Alarm Control
There you will have three options:
Silence: Silences the alarm until the next reboot
Disable: Turns the alarm off, you will have to return to this point and enable the alarm if you ever want to hear it again.
Enable: turns the alarm on after is has been disabled
Thanks, sermanre, I had the same problem. It seems that the "silence" option is worthless, since you have to reboot after exiting the utility, the alarm is immediately reenabled. I had to set it to "disable" to get it to shut up while I rebuilt the failed drive.