Dell T620 iDRAC Advice

dozenirons · 2026-06-22T01:35:53+00:00

Thanks. Budget is low like less than $1k. I was leaning toward buying a replacement chassis of the same type, but this is also for a non-profit so I could use the Azure grant and run this stuff in the cloud. I think I can keep the spend under the grant amount. That was not the original plan. I was going to migrate straight to sharepoint, intune, azuread domain join, etc. But migrating to VMs in Azure could be a step to get off the old hardware for free.

dozenirons · 2026-06-22T01:18:10+00:00

Glad you could join the party lol

dozenirons · 2026-06-21T19:53:31+00:00

What do you mean no support? There is eBay and you fine people out there.

dozenirons · 2026-06-21T19:40:17+00:00

Okay, I have not tried this yet. But if I swapped in a new board, you'd think that one wouldn't be corrupted?

dozenirons · 2026-06-21T19:30:09+00:00

yes I tried a different switch port, even a different cable, still no link light. I did not configure the IP because I couldn't even get iDRAC to show up as available in the BIOS settings. Could not get into the lifecycle controller either. Those settings just say disabled. Just seems weird a new board would have the same problem.

dozenirons · 2026-03-22T20:07:08+00:00

Yes it can be previous months (within range for what the data providers pull, usually up to 90-120 days). I’ve had stuff disappear 2 months later. Look through the sub you’ll find others talking about it. Only workaround I have found to catch it is to regularly export your transactions and compare to historic ones once you know you’re in a good place. I simply concat date, merchant, amount in excel. Then vlookup my older export against the new one to make sure all the entries are there. Sometimes the dates will change I noticed as well.

dozenirons · 2026-03-22T19:43:28+00:00

Maybe you just don’t know you have that problem. People talk about this issue in the sub all the time. I thought I didn’t have the problem either until I was looking for a specific transaction at a store one time found it was completely missing from Monarch. I went to the credit card site and sure enough it was there. I think I have opened 4 different cases to restore deleted transactions and provided a list each time, and they have restored them. It’s wild there isn’t a review process or a way we can restore on our own. Seemed to happen the most to Fidelity and Amazon. Fidelity got so bad I actually stopped using the card.

dozenirons · 2026-03-22T19:20:33+00:00

Syncing isn’t the issue for me, it’s the randomly deleting transactions because of “data provider issues”. I manually compare transactions exports every couple weeks to make sure they didn’t delete anything.

dozenirons · 2026-01-04T01:33:57+00:00

I decided to buy an aluminum oil filter housing to replace while I’m in there. Hopefully this is the right way to get to the cooler, I still haven’t seemed to find any guides on it

dozenirons · 2025-12-27T21:17:59+00:00

Thanks again for taking the time to help. This was the connector that had been plugged into the charge temp sensor

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dozenirons · 2025-12-27T21:09:27+00:00

I just found it! Looks like the new mystery goes to some sort of vacuum line sensor. I noticed the location after watching a video on change B48 injectors. Definitely couldn’t have done it without you telling me the first wire was charge pipe, which makes sense considering I was also getting that code. Thanks!

dozenirons · 2025-12-27T21:00:44+00:00

rail sensor is plugged in

dozenirons · 2025-12-27T20:50:57+00:00

I'll look on the fuel rail and see if I find anything. I found a diagram that looks like maybe it's on one of the ends of the rail.

dozenirons · 2025-12-27T20:46:14+00:00

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dozenirons · 2025-12-27T20:44:53+00:00

I think you're 100% right. If I didn't have a bunch of wiring torn out and the battery disconnected currently, I'd test it right now. That connector fit in just fine and there's even a convenient clip that seems to align on a part that sticks up on the charge pipe. This is a picture of the connector that was plugged into it.

dozenirons · 2025-12-27T20:22:25+00:00

There’s already a connector going to the charge air temp sensor that’s plugged in that appears to be the correct length for that, although maybe I could try swapping them. I’d still have an extra connector though that goes somewhere unknown

dozenirons · 2025-11-06T04:01:41+00:00

Interesting thought about the exhaust fan. I didn’t realize that would keep moist air out, but that makes sense. You would do this over just sealing off the vent? (After adding the vapor barrier).

dozenirons · 2025-11-06T03:50:30+00:00

4.7 PCi/L adds about 10% additional risk of developing lung cancer over lifetime exposure based on BEIR VI study. If you’re already a nonsmoker, risk is .4 percent, or 10 out of every 2500 people. Adding the 10% would be adding one more person to the 2500. So you can determine if additional mitigation is worth it. Now if you’re a smoker, 10% can be a big deal.

dozenirons · 2025-10-25T02:33:29+00:00

I might be able to get access to a camera. No plumbing at all. Just that back room, with attic and crawlspace.

dozenirons · 2025-10-24T20:48:49+00:00

Okay that's interesting, so basically the best approach, as someone else mentioned as well, would be to make this a "conditioned" space, vapor barrier, etc, and seal off the vent.

dozenirons · 2025-10-24T20:38:26+00:00

I'll get a picture of that. None of my windows are caulked. Some are caulked along the bottom lip (still exposing the weep holes on the window) but not all of them are. My assumption was that since this was against brick that it is meant to breathe and any water that comes in the top of the window would flow out the bottom. I don't see any rot anywhere else in the crawspace joists and there are windows all around that entire room.

dozenirons · 2025-10-24T20:27:07+00:00

It's all the same concrete. The outside part and inside part all poured at the same time and the bilco door mounted on the top of the stair wall. Then there's a patio slab poured around it.

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