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Error Upgrading Dell Poweredge 2650 BIOS: Error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

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Last week I spent a lot of time trying to upgrade the BIOS on a Dell Poweredge 650 server which ended up being a pain not only because the server is so old but because of various other issues I ran into along the way. This weekend I thought I was going to be in for the same issues when I wanted to upgrade the BIOS on a Dell Poweredge 2650 but thankfully I was incorrect. After initially attempting to upgrade using the same floppy disk method I used on the PE650 I decided to try the Redhat executable provided by Dell and ran into an error which is noted below along with what package was installed via the Yum Package Manager that resolved the error.

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Modify The Scrolling Message Located On The Front Of A Dell Poweredge 2650

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Earlier I was doing some work on a Dell Poweredge 2650 with CentOS Linux installed on it which we use for a development server at the shop. The message on the screen had been set awhile back with a joke message but I forgot how it was set so while I was poking around in the BIOS for some floppy disk settings I stumbled across how to modify the message that scrolls across the tiny screen on the front of the Dell PE2650 and wanted to share. Below is more information regarding how to modify the message and what it looks like once it has been modified.

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Crark Error: File rarcrypt1.dll not found – this CUDA architecture not yet supported

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I recently upgraded crark on a CentOS Linux server from an earlier version to Crark version 3.3a. Initially it looked as if everything worked without problems and the speeds were improved slightly over the previous version of crark I had installed. After the initial testing though I noticed an issue when attempting to run crark from a directory besides the one I had unpacked all of the contents in and received some errors. Below is output showing the crark errors along with what was done to resolve the issue.

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Windows Floppy Drive: No ID Address Mark Was Found On The Floppy Disk

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Last week I tried a bunch of different methods to try and upgrade a Dell PE650 BIOS. I finally settled on using a floppy disk to upgrade the BIOS however I initially ran into some issues with various floppy drives and floppy disks. One of the issues was an error message I received when attempting to access the floppy disk located within a floppy drive I had just installed on a Windows XP computer. Below I describe the error and how I was able to get past this specific error.

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Upgrade The BIOS On A Dell PE650, Upgrade Poweredge 650 BIOS

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I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the best way to upgrade the BIOS on a Dell Poweredge 650. I had multiple problems because I didn’t have a floppy drive to use at first and the fact that the PE650 is an older Dell server model. Since I didn’t have a floppy drive to test with initially I attempted to use the Dell System Build & Update Utility however I was unable to ever get it working properly. Initially the problem was simply getting the tool downloaded. Finally I decided to order a floppy drive and below are instructions to upgrade the PE650 using a floppy disk.

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