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Are these Dells? Some Dells have a "feature" where something, somewhere, in their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack will get corrupted and will stay wrong through pow
by snakeyjake 2y ago
Are these Dells?
Some Dells have a "feature" where something, somewhere, in their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack will get corrupted and will stay wrong through power cycles until you physically unplug the servers from power and hold down the power button to discharge a capacitor and clear out the NVRAM where the corrupted value is.
Most recently this impacted a PowerEdge R7525 server we have where the iDRAC was enforcing a power cap of ~300 watts leaving the system to be less than 1/10th as performant as it should have been. Manually setting a new power cap did nothing except update the values displayed in the UI. Multiple six minute (because of their mess of a UEFI/iDRAC stack) reboots of both the server and the iDRAC did nothing.
Dell was less than useful except for the fact that they hosted the answer. After raging against their CSA script/LLM auto-reply bullshit for days an aggrieved user with the same issue looking for help in their forums finally posted that he did the cap drain trick and it worked.
Saved me tons of wasted time. Thanks, anonymous fellow frustrated dell customer!
- chasil 2y agoNo, I actually uploaded the firmware images here: https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233 https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/issues/233