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Help me find a part for a down server PLEASE!

Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
One of my customers has a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 Server. The PSU died on t last Thursday night. I contacted Dell on Friday, they had the part in stock, I ordered with overnght shipping. Come Monday, I got an email saying the part would ship on Tuesday with ETA of 5/11. Now 5/11, I got an emal early this morning saying that the shipment is delayed and it will SHIP on 5/14. Not good. Not acceptable.

Trick is I'm having an issue fnding a compatible PSU from any other 3rd party.
This is for a Dell PowerEdge 1420 Server. This is Dell's descrption: Power Supply, 650W, Power Fact orCorrection, 12VDBL, Delta Products

ANY help would be appreciated. This customer is dead in the water without this server.
 
The Dell Poweredge 1420 seems to share a lot of parts with the Dell Precision Workstation 670 (which also has a 650 Watt power supply). There are lots of power supplies for 670s on eBay.

You might look into that.
 
Dude come on.. Lifer? If you don't have a spare.. take a power supply from one of your other computers and use that. 650 Watt if you can get it, or minimize the power use.
As long as case-closed-cooling is not needed, you dont even have to install it, just plug in the wires.
 
PC power and cooling tmk will custom make a PSU with dell's proprietary connector.

talk to them, you should be able to get them to next-day shipping one to you.
 
Gunbuster said:
DUDE you have obviously never seen a Dell workstation like that. It is not a "standard" ATX power supply.
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Maybe in years past. Not sure how old the server in question in, but recent Dells use ATX power supplies. The PCP&C 'Dell' PSUs I've seen simply don't have a power switch and/or are smaller in size to accommodate the Dell cases. I've got one of them plugged into my Intel P35 board no problem.
 
Gunbuster said:
DUDE you have obviously never seen a Dell workstation like that. It is not a "standard" ATX power supply.
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trexpesto said:
Dude come on.. Lifer? If you don't have a spare.. take a power supply from one of your other computers and use that. 650 Watt if you can get it, or minimize the power use.
As long as case-closed-cooling is not needed, you dont even have to install it, just plug in the wires.
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Bolded the relevant part of his comment for you. At least read the post before flaming, you might learn something.
 
Of course I can't even pull their HDDs out to pull off a few files that they "NEED" because they are mirror RAID...
 
Homerboy said:
Of course I can't even pull their HDDs out to pull off a few files that they "NEED" because they are mirror RAID...
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Why not? It is RAID1 after all. Remember to only experiment on 1 drive!

What kind of RAID? Software RAID should be no problem. For Linux just mount the volume. Same for Windows, you just have to "import" the RAID set.

Hardware raid shouldn't be a big deal either. There may be some metadata at the beginning of the volume, but any decent recovery tool will find the partition no problem.
 
mfenn said:
Why not? It is RAID1 after all. Remember to only experiment on 1 drive!

What kind of RAID? Software RAID should be no problem. For Linux just mount the volume. Same for Windows, you just have to "import" the RAID set.

Hardware raid shouldn't be a big deal either. There may be some metadata at the beginning of the volume, but any decent recovery tool will find the partition no problem.
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When detected in windows, the pulled HDD had no MBR. If I initialize it then I'd have to format it.
 
Homerboy said:
When detected in windows, the pulled HDD had no MBR. If I initialize it then I'd have to format it.
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Sounds like hardware RAID metadata at the beginning of the drive. Trust me, the partition table and partition are there (verbatim), they just doesn't start where Windows thinks it should.

One of the Runtime Software tools (either the plain old GetDataBack NTFS or RAID Reconstructor) will be able to get the data). It will run a full analysis for you for free and only charge to if you want to recover.
 
mfenn said:
Sounds like hardware RAID then. Trust me, the paritition is there (verbatim), it just doesn't start where Windows thinks it does.

One of the Runtime Software tools (either the plain old GetDataBack NTFS or RAID Reconstructor) will be able to get the data). It will run a full analysis for you for free and only charge to if you want to recover.
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Ive used GetDataBack 100s of times.
I actually already have it running on the HDD 🙂
 
Yeah, if it has some kind of unique plugs, that is still no problem because since the old one is dead and it has all the connectors, you just clip them off and hook up to a psu. I don't see what the problem is, 12V is 12V. Maybe the PSU fan is a critical part of the cooling system in this unit or there is no space nearby for a regular psu.

Maybe you should get two of them, then you would be prepared the next time.
 
FWIW, plugged the PSU in and it posted fine...
however apparently its not going to boot.
No matter WHAT I do I can't get it to boot into windows. The RAID and/or HDDs are F'ed
"No boot device found" no matter what I do
Even if its just a single drive in the machine with no RAID config at all, it wont get out of BIOS. I've deleted the array and rebuilt... everything returns with "no boot device found"

Fracccccccccccck
 
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