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Perc 4e/di on power edge 2800 memory bad?
Hello experts, I have a poweredge 2800 with a PERC 4e/di running windows server 2003.
I keep getting various BSOD messages and when I boot up it makes me hit any key because it says there are memory/battery problems.
I booted into the RAID bios and the battery is good. I turned off cacheing.... it stays up for a while and it blue screens.
I would like to make a backup of this raid and restore it to a single SATA/PATA drive until I can replace the server... any thought of the best way to do this?
I keep getting various BSOD messages and when I boot up it makes me hit any key because it says there are memory/battery problems.
I booted into the RAID bios and the battery is good. I turned off cacheing.... it stays up for a while and it blue screens.
I would like to make a backup of this raid and restore it to a single SATA/PATA drive until I can replace the server... any thought of the best way to do this?
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PowerEdgeTech, do you mean the memory on the RAID controller or System memory?
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where is the best place to aquire such a thing?
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Is this by chance the same memory that is on the system board where I can swap it out?
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ordered memory... I am sure this is the issue based on behavior... thanks
It is a very specific bug with this generation of server. I have heard it is an LSI bug, and I have heard it is a Dell hardware bug, but whatever the case, it has very specific behavior and very specific guidelines for fixing it - guidelines that are misunderstood even by experienced Dell and third-party support groups.
Memory/battery on every boot, blue LCD (no errors) - memory is bad, no OS will function, including installation, repair, backup, and "live".
Memory/battery on every boot with battery error on LCD - battery is bad, OS should behave normally.
Memory/battery on every boot, blue LCD (no errors) - memory is bad, no OS will function, including installation, repair, backup, and "live".
Memory/battery on every boot with battery error on LCD - battery is bad, OS should behave normally.
then from there we can see if it is storage related