Windows 10 Upgrade attempt - from v 1703 to any later version. The machine in question is a Dell Inspiron laptop.

The upgrade process fails each time. It is failing during what is commonly caused 'Phase 2', where a certain percentage is reached, then proceeds no further. McAfee AV has been uninstalled - which made no difference.

My very specific question - is there any log or precise information available that details where in the upgrade process the failure is occurring ? E.g. with a specific driver, setting, software, or configuration ?

Please note: I have already extensively researched on the Internet and read through dozens of suggestions as to how to make the upgrade work. What I'm looking for is some precise information in order to determine exactly where the upgrade is failing, so that I can then pursue the appropriate remedies.

Regards,

Mark Weaver
Oxford, CT

Looking for GPU upgrade options for a Dell PowerEdge R510 Rack-mount server.  We are integrating a security surveillance system and the client that we intend to run on the server will require a higher definition output than the standard built-in VGA that the PowerEdge R510 Server offers.  Are there any solutions for upgrading or adding an internal/external Hi-Def GPU card?

Client has a Dell Latitude E6520 laptop running Win7 Pro 32bit. Is there any reason not to upgrade to Win10 on this device?  I'm wondering because it's 32bit version of the operating system. Are there advantages to upgrading to Win10 on this laptop?
Thanks,
Al

I am running a Dell PowerEdge T310.  I have 2(qty) RAID 1 setups.  The Hard Drives are Hot Swap.  The first RAID runs the O/S and the second my data.  One of the drives in the first RAID has a blinking amber light and states there is a predictive failure.  I can see this through the Dell Server Admin login on the Server O/S.  I am purchasing a new drive that is the same model, size and speed. My question is do I simply just pull the Hard Drive with the Predictive Failure out and insert the new one or should I run the Dell Server Admin and set the Predictive Failure drive to offline and then replace?  What would be the safest/proper way to replace this drive?

Hello I've got a Virtual Machine which will not shutdown.  I've tried from Hyper-V Manager (Right Click, Shut Down).   It will not shutdown every-time get the following error:
"An error occurred while attempting to shutdown the virtual machine."
"Failed to stop"

Info is as follows:
Host = Dell Precision 7710, running Windows 10
Guest in question running Red Enterprise Edition

Not sure what to try.

Hello EE,

We have several users in the UK who are having issues working in O365 Excel 2016, where the longer they work in the application, the slower it seems, and the more it keeps hanging.  They eventually have to close out and reopen Excel to get it to work again.  After some time, the issue comes back, about several times a week.

One of the users mentioned he checked Task Manager during one of the slowdowns, and memory usage had shot up.  The users have relatively new (2-3 years) Dell machines with 8GB of RAM.  This occurs with files both local and on the network.

They all have Windows 7 64-bit with O365 Excel 2016 (v.2215 to .2295).

Anything else I can look at in regards to the slowness issues?

Thanks,

Hi Experts

I have Dell T410 located in data center, running ESX 6.0.0 5224934. 64GB of RAM and 3 disks (each is physically consisting in 2 disks mirrored).
suddently after running without any problem over 2 years, ESX restarted itself yesterday 12NOV2018 at about 21.15

I have downloaded all the logs available and they are with me.

Can you advice what had happened? How to find cause of problem?

Many thanks

Vladimir

Best way to install and download two VM's on 2016 Standard Server? Is it install the 180 Server 2016 Server trial then put in the key that came with the Dell PowerEdge operating system? I've had several licensing issues with VM's in the past.

Thanks in advance

I am trying to configure a new Dell desktop workstation. It is very confusing. I presently  have a class 40 1 tb ssd boot drive.  The model 5810 is probably the one I will purchase. The choices for hard drives alone is mind boggling to me. My most intensive programs are CorelDraw and Photoshop. What is the difference between class 40 ssd and class 50 ssd drives? This is only the first of probably several questions so that I get what I actually need with some headroom but not buy options that are for more intensive use such as cad/cam. I occasionally will use Camtasia to create and alter videos. I am happy now with c": = 1 tb ssd and the same thing for D:. I have 2 four TB high end drives in raid 1 mainly for onboard backup. From the raid drive the important files go to thumbdrives or blueray or dvd.

Hardware: Dell Poweredge R630 - running latest BIOS and firmware.  SD card boot;   Accessories: CD drive;  USB port;  [NO Hard Drive]

Operating System: VMWare 6.5.0    5310538


Problem with sticky boot up when restarting a Dell Poweredge R630 VMWare ESXi host which has no hard drive. [i.e. boots up from onboard SD card] It can take 3 attempts to restart the server which appears to successfully boot through all the hardware configurations but stalls when loading the VMWare environment.  I have spoken with Dell who say that this is a VMWare problem. I am not an expert on this but since the server is running at the moment I was hoping that I might be able to copy the current configuration onto another medium and boot up from it in order to eliminate the SD cards.   Does anybody know how to do this?

If the problem is with VMWare how do I diagnose the likely cause? Does anybody know the best course of action?

Thanks to anybody for taking the time to look at this.

Hi,

I have Dell Optiplex 7050 and has Window10 running on this pc. We use BitLocker for disk encryption. After I have  BitLocker encryption running and reboot It asks BitLocker recovery key.  Then I found the following steps seems to work:

Deactivate the TPMAutoProvisioning within Windows via the Administrator PowerShell:
1. Right click on the Start menu.
2. Type powershell, right click to run as admin
3. Type the command Disable-TpmAutoProvisioning and press Enter and make sure autoprovisioning is disabled.

Delete the TPM within the BIOS using the Clear option :
1. Restart the system and go to BIOS setup
2. Select "Security".
3. Click on "TPM Security".
4. Choose to Clear the TPM and then click yes to removing all keys from the TPM. (TPM will need to remain active).
5. Then exit and reboot into BIOS again to verify that the TPM is still seen as active.
6. Exit and reboot into the Window.

Activate the TPMAutoProvisioning again with the following PowerShell operation:
1. Right click on the Start menu.
2. type powershell and right click to run as admin
3. Type the command Enable-TpmAutoProvisioning and press Enter.

Under the tpm.msc make sure TPM management provided TPM status as ready to use, with reduced functionality.T hen
1. Turn OFF Bitlocker. Wait for  the hard drive to decrypt.
2. Turn ON Bitlocker. Reboot and no more ask Recovery Key.

It seems work after restarting the pc several times and it did not ask Bitlocker key until I shut it down…

I'm trying to load Windows 10 on the Dell laptop but it won't boot from USB. The BIOS is set to EUFI and Secure Boot disabled. I tried to add a boot option but that didn't work either?  I've used this USB in the past with EUFI BIOS so I guess I'm missing something I need to set in the BIOS.

For some reason my home triple monitor setup isn't working correctly. The normal setup works fine but when I try to configure nvidia surround for gaming the middle montor, which is a different brand but the same size, has black bars on either side. I have never set up a PC to do this and was wondering what was going on.

I am running an i7 8700k, 32 GB mem, and a GTX 1080 ti so it should support it without issue.

My monitors are

From left to right.

Samsung 27in 1080p 60hz , Dell 27 in 1440p 144hz, and another samsung 27in 1080p.

The dell is the one with the issue.