20 Most Recent Dell PowerEdge 1800 Server - Page 2 Questions & Answers

A Blinking Amber or Yellow power button means that the power supply is receiving power from the source but is unable to properly distribute it to the components. This can be caused by a defective power supply or a defective motherboard. Just to make sure that nothing else is causing the problem, remove any PCI cards like modem, video card, sound card, etc... Remove the memory modules and disconnect cables to CD/DVD drives. Look at the USB ports to see if any are damaged. Beeping usually means a memory issue.

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 caused by a defective card installed in the motherboard, i.e. video card.

Computer beeping may indicate that you have a bad memory stick. Try removing your memory sticks and install one at a time isolate the bad one.

Use Acronis True Image Home to do this www.acronis.com You want to "Clone Disk"

Seems like something happend with your drivers because apperantly seems like your Sound and VGA drivers are missing you need to re-install it.

There is a difference between installation of workstation an server so you will need Dell installation CD for power Edge series of servers, you can download ISO image here from this link so download ISO image burn CD insert that CD on server and follow procedure.Power Edhge Installation

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

This should help :Dhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/978307

Test another monitor and pay attention for any beep codes coming from the server.

so long as it fits and the cables connect fine you should be able to use the new power supply

The obvious is to repair it, but if you have another identical server you can place drives and access data. The replacement should boot as failed server. Make sure to track drives and slot location. Shuffling may cause major failure. It may want to stripe itself again and cause data loss and defeating the purpose.

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Dell PowerEdge 1800 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guidehttp://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/pe1800/en/it/r2053c20.htm

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