I have discovered over the past week or so, the tower would be shut off when I had left for the day for work or whatever, so I don’t see when the fault or anything occurs. It only happen a couple times so its not consistent.
Here’s specs for the system:
Dell Percision 7920
2x Intel Xeon Gold 6148
192 GB 2666Mhz ECC DDR4 (Used RAM, chips on their boards are Hynix)
6x 12TB Seagate Ironwolf HDD
1x 1TB NVMe SSD (Unsure of make or model as in special enclosure.)
Nvidia Quadro P1000 (Used as card for TrueNAS exclusively)
GIGABYTE Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB (Intended for use with VMs)
APC Back-UPS Pro 1500VA (Wired into tower with supplied data cable)
While I haven’t asked the people I live with if there were any power outages, I’m fairly confident they would have told me, as the UPS would have made noises they would have heard.
Any ideas how to fix this, so I can access the console from my monitor again?
Secure boot is disabled on that end, I have the system set to reboot if god forbid all power is lost, however since it’s plugged into that UPS and can shut down automatically when it detects it’s running off the UPS and not AC power.
Other things I checked:
Deep Sleep Control is disable
I have disable wake on LAN (Right now I have no intentions to allowing the system to communicate openly with the internet, so back up of photos and other stuff are always done on local network.)
I am curious if it potentially could be the Dell trying to do something with the OS via their SupportAssist System Resolution. It’s Auto OS Recovery Threshold is set to two and while I never was around to see it in action, would it try to fix boot issues? I’ve already gone and disabled that, so I’ll test that out.
I also checked the systems logs in the BIOS and the only thing it reports is about the FlexBay 2 fan not running…which I’m not concerned about given the million other fans already running as it is, and the fact the system loudest sound is the hard drives spinning and read/writing. Fans are moving but pretty much silent.
Having tested turning off the SupportAssist System Dell has on this desktop, it does seem to have solved the unexplainable shut downs, however with a recent reboot, I still have the issue of the kernel tainting that is preventing the system from getting to the main console. Don’t know if anyone lese is looking at this but if anyone might have an answer or a way to repair the kernel so it can boot back into the console, would be greatly appreciated.
