20 Most Recent Dell POWEREDGE 2900 Server Questions & Answers

Dell PSU Z930P - if no LED lights, then replace 1 capacitor on the PWM and PFC controller module. You have to desolder that module to make this work. This capacitor has bad ESR. Replace with new, good, LOW ESR. Large capacitors at the input of the unit may have a slightly convex appearance and some decrease in capacity, but the power supply can continue to work successfully. Two small caps 100*25v on the main board can loose ESR too. If you want, replace all them with new ones for complete happiness.

perhaps your hardware isnt correct setup in BIOS or some of harddrive not working correct

You can't disable F1 and it is designed that way. About all you can do is go into the settings and turn off the screen dispaly for F! or install a passwor for it. I would and do recommend that you loeave this alone. A lot of questions that i have seen in here start with... I forgot my password for....

Enter the set up (BIOS) menu by tapping the F2 key. Hold down the <Alt> key and depress the <E> then the <F> keys in succession. This will force the motherboard to load default settings and also force the motherboard to redetect all IDE devices. Note: The selection for the floppy drive will be set to ON. If you do not have one then you must disable floppy in set up (BIOS) menu.

The indicator positional signal has become unreliable and is forcing a fault insertion notice to appear. If the W1228 power is under the proper facilitation and operational conditions, you will get a notice of error. In short, you have a boat anchor.

The servers revisions were not appropriate for that product model. Flashed BIOs, if meant for another system will no longer work as the instruction set is now compromised. If re-flashing the BIOs with the CORRECT version adjusts the problem, its is worth trying.

This suggests that the internal battery needs replacing.

That means you have corrupted files on your Hard drive, Use the recovery partition to deal with that if your computer has that, If not you might need to take it to the shop

The battery on your motherboard needs to be replaced.

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If the fan does not light up then it could be dead. You can verify with Server Administrator aka OMSA.

color of leds

clean connection with erasor