nickman

Thanks for all your input. Meanwhile the system is back to normal (so far at least) after I installed the firmware update for the H710 SAS RAID controller (SAS-RAID_Firmware_C1VYX_WN32_21.2.0-0007_A04.EXE) For the DSET report: The Dell technician didn't find anything special.

On RAID 10, in-maschine. 1) Meanwhile I received a list of updates (including the RAID backplane firmware) that I will install soon. 2) Addendum: DSET, once run, leaves behind a MSI packet (which can be easily extracted), containing a lot of Python PYCs plus some few EXEs. If my observations were correct (cmp. item 2 above), either one of this Python libs or one of the EXEs should have been the - positive - culprit. Will report back...

Addendum: The Dell tool seems to be a Wise installer. Does anybody know how to handle these lately?

Just an intermediate report: 0) Behavior as described - slow. 1) Checked with Dell, executed DSET (their test tool). 2) Behavior after execution of DSET changed => fast 3) Dell couldn't find any problems in the report generated by DSET, i.e. on our maschine 4) Communicating with Dell in order to obtain info about what is contained in DSET (would like to do that myself, by UniExtract 1.6.61 failed me on this exe; will upgrade to 1.77 and report again)

@MagicAndre1981 I'll give that a try (in case I find that option in the BIOS). @MrJinje Thanks for your tip - unfortunately that didn't help.

log.rar was uploaded (please refer to PM).

We recently installed a Windows Server 2008 R2 (64) [Dell R720, RAID 10, 32 GB]. Initially the performance was fine with one SQL Server 2008 R2 (64) and a Tomcat 6 (64) installation. Then the server started to become slower. At first we assumed something to be wrong with the NIC drivers (Broadcom BACS), so we upgraded their firmware, and the drivers, which seemed to have helped. But now, after some time (about two months) we're back in the same place. Starting Firefox takes about one minute, EVERYTHING is awfully slow. Checked so far: 1) perfmon shows peaks but nothing special 2) procmon (following FF's start) shows no indication 3) Latest patches/hotfixes installed Is there anyone out there experiencing similar problems on the above-described hardware?