How to open front panel of Dell Poweredge 1950 without key

this is common, if your place was cold its possible that something has died when turning on again, you could try and pull out ram in an order to see if one has failed, get the memtest download and make a boot disk to test the ram has not become faulty, test each stick alone, Hiren boot disk has all the good stuff for testing, its a free tecky tool for engineers.

Press it on your keyboard. This may have come up due to hardware configuration changes.

Had the same thing happen to me today and in my case it was a code 18 as they come...
It started while I was installing a video card adapter for a dual monitor setup. The solution - I had to simply close the side panel I had left open for testing and then reboot the server. The intrusion alarm went off.

download dell server assistant onto a cd... youll get a menu, follow the menu. you also need the server 2003 installation cd

You can conveniently crack open the case without tools by swinging open the door that covers the front bezel, using your fingers to untwist a setscrew that lies underneath, then sliding off the side panel

On the face plate where the key plate is numbers, most college will have the key . I open them quite often with a paper clip and small blade screw driver
Or remove the pins on the hingeside of the face plate if this is the U2 platform
If you not find any help send me the numbers for the key needed and I will see if I can find the key you require.
Thes locks are not too secure and from all the 2450 and 2400 even 2550 I work on only 4 keys total

The lock on the Powerledge is not too difficult to pick. A home made pick or buy a small lock picking tool set (less than $20). Without any training you can pick it in five minutes.

During setup you must specify any raid drivers that are required. Have the raid controller driver on floppy and insert when prompted.

You have to have raid drivers on a floppy,

I know with xp it asks you to press F6 for third party driver during installation...

try here

https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-1650_reference%20guide_en-us.pdf