Dell PE1750 Orange Light

[Brian D. McGrew]

We had the same problem with a PE 1800 a couple months ago.  

Brand new out of the box we loaded up Fedora Core 3 on it and it was
fine for a week or so.  Left it over the weekend, came back in on Monday
and it was froze with the flashing orange light.  After many, many,
many, many frustrating telephone calls with a Dell support rep who
didn't speak English and had no clue what Linux was, we finally got them
to give us an RMA number and sent it back.

We went through several technicians and never got an answer, the best we
got was from a rep in Texas who said (and I quote) "The orange light on
these boxes is a bit new and not completely documented yet".  

Go figure!

-brian

Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
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> Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-poweredge-admin at dell.com
[mailto:linux-poweredge-admin at dell.com] On Behalf Of Steve Wright
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 9:29 AM
To: linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Dell PE1750 Orange Light

Hi All,

We have a number of Dell PE1750's. One of them has a flashing orange
light...

Now, originally, we found that the temperature threshold settings we're
set extremely low for this machine (about 30 degrees Celsius) so we
upgraded the ESM which adjusted the thresholds.

However, we now have the flashing orange light back.

I have got hold of the Knoppix OMSA bootable CD, and when I load that
us, the only error it comes up with is about the serial ports and the
configurations has changed. I click Acknowledge on this, and
everything's goes OK in the OMSA view... but the orange light is still
flashing  :(

I'm now stuck, and looking for advice (short of disconnecting the orange
light  ;)  ) on where to go next to diagnose what is causing it to
flash.

I have looked in the event log, and it has now errors, just information
on when we opened up OMSA etc..etc..

If their an extended event log somewhere or something of that nature
which tells me more?

TIA,

S



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