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Message: <blockquote data-quote="resa" data-source="post: 1165209" data-attributes="member: 68500">I was unable to find out, if you ever have changed the PSU itself on your server since the beginning of your problems? But since you've got some sort of warning from the PSU already i would remember to take special care about power stability in your system.So if PSU was not changed or you have used two PSUs with the same wattage (unfortunately Dell isn't concerning much about users that upgrading/extending their systems heavily), try to attach another PSU to that system (if i.e. standard ATX PSU dosent fit's into the dell, try to positioning it beside the casing during the test) and look if errors remains with new/stronger PSU...Maybe the 12V rail inside PSU which is supporting for installed drives etc. is working slightly outside the parameters already (i.e. due to aged capacitors) that is accepted by any of attched HDD or other consumers in your system connected to FDD/HDD/SATA-Power outlets or even taking power from the board only... that can i.e. causes an HDD to do short fail-safe spindowns or causes extension-cards to throttle down for a moment... those incidents can be too short for Windows beeing "informed" or noticed about and even too short for resulting into other problems like read/write errors etc., but maybe already long enough i.e. to halt the systems data-throughput from the slots towards other attached or on board components resulting into those discontinuities finally...Also take care, that you have attached all extension-cards that own's an external FDD/HDD or GFX power input socket to the corresponding PSU outlets properly. Especially DVB-S cards needs extra power to serve the LNB, which can be obtained from PCI-Slots only in most cases too, but resulting into overload the PCI powerlanes in some cases i.e. where multiple cards are used. Take care that sometimes there are parts of an FDD power socket, made out of white plastics, is missed and you will only find four pins bended to the side on some cards, what is not to be identified as power socket such easily like if the white plastics can be seen in place...Unfortunately it is one of my hard learned lessons, that only changing operating system and even only changing software or drivers can reveal upcoming power problems where the PSU is already sliding on the theresholds... macabre it sounds... but it can depend only on some new services that increases the load on idle and then pulls the load over thereshold on activity ... or there are changes in the handling for the cases where an device is not ready (i.e. dropping the data instead waiting for device ready etc.) ... In Addition... what can be inside accepted theresholds for the board or any other component (or is catched out by stability circuits some components, i.e. CPU power inputs, are equipped with) can interferer already on some other components... especially HDDs are much more sensitive, since they need enough of remaining spindle speed to perform pull back into parking position for the heads, so they often do precautionousely "micro" spin-downs on unstable power inputs but do not dismissing them selfes from the system that early, if power levels returns to normal shortly enough...In adition you can try to change the engergy saving options within windows, not only those you find under energy in system settings, but also those you find in device-manager on tabs called energy or advanced for several devices too, i.e. for the NIC and sometimes for the slots and/or the cards in there too... maybe some devices are sended into engery saving mode but do not returning properly on activity...Good luck anyway, i will trace this thread with interrest, to see what is the final fix to these issues <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />best regards.</blockquote>

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