I'll call your dead power supply and raise you one dead PERC 2 , had to call Dell Support ( we had extended warranty at the time ) as the PERC 2 card was bad, and displayed an error upon POST. It was in a domain controller with mirrored drives, so it was the only controller. The Dell Tech Support nog said we couldn't go any farther with getting the card replaced without me booting from DOS and telling him what Fdisk showed for partitions !!! ( he said he was trying to help us, as if they shipped a new PERC and the old was still good we'd be charged --- argh ! )
So I rebooted for the beep, waited 30 seconds, and told him Fdisk wouldn't see the drives because the PERC was bad ... He just didn't make the connection on his own ... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, & Security -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Odd Dell PowerEdge issue All this talk of diagnostic CDs and management packages reminds me of a time I called into Dell with a PC with a dead power supply. The technician asked me what version of Windows it was running. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
