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January 15th, 2025 16:53
Precision 7820 Tower failing to boot/crashing
I’m having an issue with my 7820 workstation, which I purchased this summer. It’s been running ESXi 8 without any problems until a few weeks ago.
Here’s the situation:
- The system posts sporadically. More often than not, I just get a black screen.
- The video card is in slot 2 using vga
- "When" I can boot into either Windows or ESXi, and it runs fine overnight with no issues.
- The odd part: When I try to start a virtual machine, the system crashes.
- After crashing, it usually won’t POST. There are no error LED indications, just a white light on the power button.
- It also powers on by itself the moment I plug it in.
- AC recovery/Restore after AC Power Loss is set to "Power Off"
Here’s what I’ve tried so far:
- Reseated all the RAM (note: the RAM modules are from different manufacturers).
- Ran ePSA diagnostics, but it locked up, seemingly on the memory test.
- Updated the BIOS when I was able to boot into Windows.
- Removed the Dell Ultra-speed Quad M.2 NVMe PCIe adapter card
- Replaced video card with MSI NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 2GD3 LP Single Fan 2GB DDR3 PCIe 2.0 Graphics Card
This workstation was a personal investment for work, so I’m really hoping to resolve the issue. If anyone has ideas on what to try next, I’d be extremely grateful for your help.
Thank you
-Dell Precision T7820
-2x Intel Xeon Gold 6262V 24 core 48 thread CPUs (48 cores/96 threads total)
-384GB DDR4 ECC Memory
-Nvidia Quadro NVS 510 GPU (4x mini Display Port)
-1.92TB Dell Enterprise SSD
-512GB SATA SSD (boot)
-2x M.2 Flexbay Sleds with M.2 tray/caddy
-Dell Ultra-speed Quad M.2 NVMe PCIe adapter card
-950W Power Supply
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user7820
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May 16th, 2025 15:29
did you ever figure this out? I am having a similar issue. tried reseating ram, cmos battery.. it was working fine a few days ago and now it turns on one amber flash then solid white on the LED power button.