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Dell Power Edge 2900 - amber and Red A light on tape Drive

Got a dell Power Edge 2900. everything is working fine. Got a flashing amber light and red A light on the tape drive. Could someone assist me please?

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An Amber blinking power button indicates a low voltage problem. This can be caused by a defective power supply or a defective motherboard. May also be a defective card inserted into your motherboard. Try isolating the problem by removing all components until you just have motherboard and power supply and see if it turns on.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Feb 26, 2009

SOURCE: Dell poweredge 1800 scsi drive not found

Hi,
check if the drive is showing in the bios of the server,
shut down the server, take out the power cable, press and hold the power button so as to realease flea power, open the server, and reseat the data cable at both ends and if there is another power cable available in the server swap it with the existing cable plugged into the scsi drive.

and now try to start your server.
Further Queries are welcome

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 18, 2009

SOURCE: dell 1800 power edge is giving long beep continuously.

Power supply, system board, or keyboard problem

inthecellar

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  • Posted on Apr 29, 2009

SOURCE: flashing redlight on the front

Yes. Here are some things that could be an issue:

a problem with power supplies, fans, system temperature, or SCSI hard drives.

Install the Dell Open Manager software to run diagnostic. It will tell you what needs to be fixed.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on May 27, 2009

SOURCE: high pitched noise red light blinking

A high pitch noise comes normally from blown capacitors from the motherboard or the power supply. But mostly high pitch noise comes from power supplies.

You could have to open up the power supply to see them.

Verify if it is the case and replace the faulty part.


Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 11, 2009

SOURCE: Flshing Red Light on Dell Poweredge 1800 Server

I finally made contact with our IT dept who were abole to carry out a remote diagnostic test.

Problem has now been identified (problem with tape drive)

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