My Dell PowerEdge 400SC crashed a week or two ago. I use it as a workstation, with XP Pro. It crashed and now my OS runs like it has 10% the processing power that it did before. I swapped out the OS drive for another drive, no luck. I changed the IDE cable out with the same results, nil. Any idea where I should go from here?
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Dell server running EXTREMELY slow
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I got the system and set it up as a workstation. No RAID, IDE drives, 2.4GHz Pentium 4 HT, 2Gb memory, XP Pro. I have never heard of OpenManage. I formatted the OS drive that came with the system, so I probably lost it. Can I get it again easily?
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Not sure yet what caused the crash, it just locked up one day and ran at around 25% speed since. I restored to a few dates that I know were stable with the same results. I think that it is most likely hardware-related. I'll try OpenManage next.
The link below should help:
You will probably want the downloads under Diagnostics or System Management
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You will probably want the downloads under Diagnostics or System Management
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I thought about the heat issue. I had rolled back Windows a while ago and forgot that my temp monitor had left me. Could have been the culprit... For now, I have another barebones system to put my file storage drive into for access, but the Dell server was so stable until this...
Thanks for the link, TheLad!
Thanks for the link, TheLad!
umm... dell says that their server-class hardware and win XP don't do well together. dunno why for sure, but many folks have tried this type of thing and end up going back to a breakable pc platform. i can't believe how chincy pc's have gotten!
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