Hello   You should replace the system board. The iDRAC express is the BMC. The iDRAC is not an optional component on the R710. It is a standard component of the system board. I do not believe it is removable or replaceable. Thanks
Hey all, might be a dumb question but the story behind it is that there is a SMB owner that isn't exactly in a spot to drop the $$ for a brand new server (at least yet, I am trying to buy them time) and their T610 has been rebooting randomly and it is exacerbated by the inability to communicate with the BMC which the POST erroneously states that it cannot find the iDRAC and reboots once to search for it again before it even hits the OS so we are looking at 20-30 minutes when the server is offline whenever it decides to reboot.  Windows Updates are set to ask so that the OS doesn't reboot to apply updates and the CPU, RAM, and HDDs show no error yet half the items within OpenManage are missing and "System Services Disabled" at POST does not allow preboot diagnostics and the Windows based diagnostics package complains about the LCL so I cannot find out any more information.  The EV logs just show a general hardware fault which Googlefu fails to turn up anything concrete.  I am pretty sure the motherboard needs replacement but my boss really hates the idea of throwing in a used part so I am trying to gather more clues. So my question is, if we were to install a DRAC Express module, would it stop complaining about the iDRAC (BMC) and let us use the ESM or is the DRAC dependent on the BMC?  Further, I've only been able to find a video for the DRAC in an R710 and the board naturally has a different layout and I am trying to figure out what the black rectangle does in the following picture:  [IMAGE]  This looks like the DRAC Express but does not feel removable.  Can the BMC itself be replaced?  Should I just keep pushing for a motherboard?  Thanks for any input!!
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