Geoff, You won't even believe this... I was 100% convinced that the motherboard was DESTROYED.  I had already placed an order for a new motherboard and I was doing a search on the internet, looking for OTHERS that seemed to have this same exact problem (system gets to the point of "Press for Remote Access Setup within 5 sec " but then continuously reboots) I can't enter the System BIOS, but I can press CTRL-E and enter into the Remote Access Setup (BMC). It sounds completely crazy, but I found this thread here where "Mike Fink" was having the EXACT same problem: [URL] I've read THOUSANDS of users having this EXACT same problem, but there didn't seem to be ANY solution.  Dell seems to say the exact same thing (trying clearing the NVRAM, etc.) but I tried the SOLUTION that the USER figured out (he disconnected ALL USB devices including the KEYBOARD). Powering off the system and disconnecting the USB Keyboard and USB Mouse is what solved the problem. I tried the EXACT same thing, and discovered that YES, it was the USB keyboard that was causing the problem!! The HOW/WHAT/WHY, I'm not sure of, but when I powered down the system and disconnected the USB keyboard & mouse and then rebooted the system WITHOUT any keyboard and mouse... a Keyboard error popped up, but then the system continued booting and it booted just fine! (without the keyboard and mouse) I couldn't believe it!! A USB Keyboard was causing the problem!??  I have no idea how/what/why this is the SOLUTION to the problem, but sure enough it actually worked!!   I would suspect that some device is the issue and taking it to the minimum configuration (removing all cards, drives, memory but one, USB and all peripherals (including mouse, keyboard - or try different ones)) will isolate that device.   I was reading the thread found here:  [URL] After I unplugged the USB keyboard, it finished booting (past the "Press for Remote Access Setup within 5 sec... " where it normally just reboots the system).  Sure enough, after shutting the system completely off and unplugging the USB Keyboard, and USB Mouse, and then turning the system back on without any USB keyboard/mouse, it actually worked!!  It actually booted up! The system booted up (normally) without the keyboard/mouse.  It displayed a keyboard error, but then it finished posting.  It got past the "Press for Remote Access Setup within 5 sec... " problem/error (where it normally rebooted the server), and it finished booting up and then after booting it finally came to a screen that finally said: Strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for system setup, F11 for BIOS boot manager I was dancing for joy, and couldn't believe the system actually finished booting up (just because I removed the USB keyboard/mouse). I plugged the USB keyboard back in and then I pressed "F2" for system setup, and went into the bios, and I set the system time and reconfigured the system (everything was blank after previously resetting the NVRAM).  I also setup the boot priority in the boot manager.  (Set it back to booting from the USB device).  Then everything seemed to work (as normal) and the system now works and boots normally!! I found the SOLUTION by doing a Google Search, and stumbled upon a thread by Mike Fink. Mike Fink seemed to have this 100% EXACT same error/problem here:  [URL] I just got really lucky and stumbled upon his thread, while doing a Google search on " Press for Remote Access Setup within 5 sec  " Mike Fink's thread came up, it described the EXACT same problem that I was having and I read his thread and read the solution and realized that he was having the EXACT same problem that I was having, and he said that disconnecting his keyboard fixed the problem.  So I gave it a shot and disconnected my keyboard and mouse, and sure enough it actually worked!! I can't believe it worked!! I don't really know WHY on earth the USB keyboard would have been causing the problem (it's a brand new Dell keyboard that I've been using with this system for months now) and the USB keyboard works (because I can press "CTRL-E" to enter into the Remote Access Setup) but for some reason by just shutting the system completely down and removing the USB keyboard/mouse and booting the system without ANY keyboard/mouse it gave the keyboard error and then for some reason it allowed the system to continue to boot normally (and fixed the error/problem of not being able to get into the BIOS and the continuous rebooting). I was pretty shocked, but the SOLUTION to the problem is to just power the system down and remove the USB Keyboard/Mouse.  Power the system back up (without any keyboard/mouse or ANY USB devices connected to the system) and just let the system boot without ANY USB devices attached to the system and for some reason it ends up booting up just fine/normally. Once this happens, you can reconnect the USB keyboard and USB mouse, and press "F2" to enter setup, and then go into the BIOS and configure your startup/boot preferences, and everything seems to work normally afterwards.  The system no longer reboots continuously! After unplugging the USB keyboard/mouse and rebooting the system and then after the system finished booting, pressing "F2" to enter the BIOS and then reconfiguring the system BIOS and rebooting, everything worked perfectly! I hope that this helps, and hope that someone (having the same problem) stumbles upon this thread in the future, and hopefully they will give it a shot and hopefully this will help someone in the future. Thanks DELL-Geoff for all of your help, and thank-you Mike Fink and TheFlash1932 for your suggestions, posts and the solution! I already ordered a new motherboard yesterday (it hasn't arrived yet), but thanks again for the SOLUTION!     
Our PowerEdge T110 has been running flawlessly and everything was fine. Earlier today, I was searching the Dell website and noticed that there was a security notice, and there was an "urgent" PowerEdge T110 BMC 1.92 Firmware update.  (Critical Security Update BMC firmware 1.92, A00) [URL] [URL]  We downloaded the files from the Dell website here:  [URL]   We selected the driver files we would like to download here:  [URL]  The installation instructions seemed pretty simple: Installation Instructions 1. Click Download Now to download the file.2. When the File Download window appears, click Save to save the file to your hard drive. Installation1. Browse to the location where you downloaded the file and double-click the new file.2. Read over the release information presented in the dialog window.3. Download and install any prerequisites identified in the dialog window before proceeding.4. Click the Install button.5. Follow the remaining prompts to perform the update. We followed the instructions, and then after the download completed, we ran the program/update package (on Windows Server 2012 R2), and it said that it completed successfully and the system needed to reboot. After the system rebooted, the Dell splash screen (with BIOS version) comes back up then it shows the BMC version as 1.30.05 (not the 1.92 updated BMC version which supposedly was the update) and now the computer continuously reboots. It seems that something went wrong with the BMC firmware update, the BMC firmware was not properly updated to 1.92, and instead our Dell PowerEdge T110 now just continuously reboots now.   Is this a bad firmware/security update?  Any ideas as to how this can be fixed? Is there a way to rollback the BMC firmware update back to the previous version?  Or a way to fix/get the system to boot normally?      
PowerEdge T110 Continuously Reboots