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... Four 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant 15-pin VGA Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant Matrox G200, integrated in a 3.5-inch carrier. Drives Hard drives Optical drive Tape drive Connectors Back NIC Serial USB Video Front USB Internal USB Video Video type Video memory Up to four 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA... internal drives or Up to four 3.5-inch cabled SAS or SATA internal drives or Up to four 2.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SSD internal drives in iDRAC 8 MB 8 Getting Started With Your System
... Four 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant 15-pin VGA Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant Two 4-pin, USB 2.0-compliant Matrox G200, integrated in a 3.5-inch carrier. Drives Hard drives Optical drive Tape drive Connectors Back NIC Serial USB Video Front USB Internal USB Video Video type Video memory Up to four 3.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SATA... internal drives or Up to four 3.5-inch cabled SAS or SATA internal drives or Up to four 2.5-inch hot-plug SAS or SSD internal drives in iDRAC 8 MB 8 Getting Started With Your System
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Contents 1 About Your System 11 Accessing System Features During Startup 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators 12 LCD Panel Features (Optional 14 Home Screen 15 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns 18 Back-Panel Features and Indicators 19 Guidelines for Connecting External Devices 21 NIC Indicator Codes 21 Power Indicator Codes 22 Diagnostic Lights (Optional 23 LCD Status Messages 25 Viewing Status Messages 26 Removing LCD Status Messages 26 System Messages 39 Warning Messages 54 Diagnostics Messages 54 Contents 3
Contents 1 About Your System 11 Accessing System Features During Startup 11 Front-Panel Features and Indicators 12 LCD Panel Features (Optional 14 Home Screen 15 Setup Menu 16 View Menu 17 Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns 18 Back-Panel Features and Indicators 19 Guidelines for Connecting External Devices 21 NIC Indicator Codes 21 Power Indicator Codes 22 Diagnostic Lights (Optional 23 LCD Status Messages 25 Viewing Status Messages 26 Removing LCD Status Messages 26 System Messages 39 Warning Messages 54 Diagnostics Messages 54 Contents 3
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... Installing the Cooling Shroud 89 Hard Drives 90 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 90 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 91 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 91 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 93 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 94 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive Into a Drive Carrier 95 Removing a Cabled Hard Drive 95 Installing a Cabled Hard Drive 97 Removing a Cabled Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Bracket 98 Optical and Tape Drives 99 Removing an Optical...
... Installing the Cooling Shroud 89 Hard Drives 90 Removing a Hard-Drive Blank 90 Installing a Hard-Drive Blank 91 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 91 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive 93 Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 94 Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive Into a Drive Carrier 95 Removing a Cabled Hard Drive 95 Installing a Cabled Hard Drive 97 Removing a Cabled Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Bracket 98 Optical and Tape Drives 99 Removing an Optical...
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... 153 Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems 154 Troubleshooting a Fan 154 Troubleshooting System Memory 155 Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key 157 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 158 Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit 159 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 160 Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller . . . . 161 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards 162 Troubleshooting the Processor 163 5 Running the System Diagnostics 165...
... 153 Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems 154 Troubleshooting a Fan 154 Troubleshooting System Memory 155 Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key 157 Troubleshooting an Optical Drive 158 Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit 159 Troubleshooting a Hard Drive 160 Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller . . . . 161 Troubleshooting Expansion Cards 162 Troubleshooting the Processor 163 5 Running the System Diagnostics 165...
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The ports are USB 2.0-compliant. Covers the system's front-loading hard drives. LCD Panel Features (Optional) The system's LCD panel provides system information and status and error messages to signify when the system is off through the ...
The ports are USB 2.0-compliant. Covers the system's front-loading hard drives. LCD Panel Features (Optional) The system's LCD panel provides system information and status and error messages to signify when the system is off through the ...
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Blinks green, amber, and off until all hard drives are not ready for insertion or removal NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off Drive predicted failure 18 About Your System Drives are initialized after system power is applied. Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns 1 2 1 hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2 hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) Drive-Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition Blinks green two times per second Identify drive/preparing for removal Off Drive ready for insertion or removal during this time.
Blinks green, amber, and off until all hard drives are not ready for insertion or removal NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off Drive predicted failure 18 About Your System Drives are initialized after system power is applied. Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns 1 2 1 hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2 hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) Drive-Status Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) Condition Blinks green two times per second Identify drive/preparing for removal Off Drive ready for insertion or removal during this time.
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... Diagnostic Indicator Codes Code Causes Corrective Action The system is in your system. system is in a normal Information only. See "Hard Drives" on page 90 for information on page 177. Table 1-1. The system is in a normal Plug the system into a working... off condition or a possible electrical outlet and press the pre-BIOS failure has power button. Possible processor failure. Hard drive failure. The diagnostic lights are properly connected. operating condition after the system successfully boots to the operating system. Memory failure. ...
... Diagnostic Indicator Codes Code Causes Corrective Action The system is in your system. system is in a normal Information only. See "Hard Drives" on page 90 for information on page 177. Table 1-1. The system is in a normal Plug the system into a working... off condition or a possible electrical outlet and press the pre-BIOS failure has power button. Possible processor failure. Hard drive failure. The diagnostic lights are properly connected. operating condition after the system successfully boots to the operating system. Memory failure. ...
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...resource and/or system board hardware failure. LCD Status Messages The LCD messages consist of brief text messages that the diskette drive, optical drive, and hard drives are properly connected. See "Getting Help" on page 155. Other failure. About Your System 25 Diagnostic Indicator Codes (continued...management settings, see the systems management software documentation. Ensure that refer to boot, press the System ID button for the appropriate drive installed in your system fails to events recorded in the System Event Log (SEL). For information on page 177. Record ...
...resource and/or system board hardware failure. LCD Status Messages The LCD messages consist of brief text messages that the diskette drive, optical drive, and hard drives are properly connected. See "Getting Help" on page 155. Other failure. About Your System 25 Diagnostic Indicator Codes (continued...management settings, see the systems management software documentation. Ensure that refer to boot, press the System ID button for the appropriate drive installed in your system fails to events recorded in the System Event Log (SEL). For information on page 177. Record ...
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...cable not control panel is unusable. Inspect DIMMs. No memory was detected in the system. Check DIMMs. Corrective Actions See "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 177. If the problem persists, replace cable. If the problem persists, see "Getting Help" on page 155. See ".... & clear SEL. missing or bad. Install memory or reseat the memory modules. E1A14 SAS cable A failure. E1812 Hard drive ## The specified hard drive removed. E2011 Memory configuratio n failure. the system. SAS cable A is not configurable. LCD Status Messages (continued) Code Text Causes E1810...
...cable not control panel is unusable. Inspect DIMMs. No memory was detected in the system. Check DIMMs. Corrective Actions See "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 177. If the problem persists, replace cable. If the problem persists, see "Getting Help" on page 155. See ".... & clear SEL. missing or bad. Install memory or reseat the memory modules. E1A14 SAS cable A failure. E1812 Hard drive ## The specified hard drive removed. E2011 Memory configuratio n failure. the system. SAS cable A is not configurable. LCD Status Messages (continued) Code Text Causes E1810...
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...an intentional setting, may support only the minimum frequency. Faulty or missing optical drive subsystem, hard drive, or hard-drive subsystem, or no bootable USB key installed. Use a bootable USB key, CD, or hard drive. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key" on page... 157, "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Optical Drive" on page 158, and "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 108. See "General Memory Module Installation Guidelines" on setting the order of boot devices. POST memory...
...an intentional setting, may support only the minimum frequency. Faulty or missing optical drive subsystem, hard drive, or hard-drive subsystem, or no bootable USB key installed. Use a bootable USB key, CD, or hard drive. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key" on page... 157, "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Optical Drive" on page 158, and "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 108. See "General Memory Module Installation Guidelines" on setting the order of boot devices. POST memory...
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... card(s). Reseat the expansion card(s). Install the NVRAM_CLR jumper in the System Setup program. See Figure 6-1 for jumper location. Check the hard-drive configuration settings in the clear position (pins 1 and 3) and reboot the system. Actual Link Width is x, the specified slot. If...operating system on page 162. See "Getting Help" on page 177. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting Expansion Cards" on hard drive. Reseat the PCIe card in initializing PCIe device; PCI BIOS failed to the expansion card(s). Ensure that all appropriate cables are ...
... card(s). Reseat the expansion card(s). Install the NVRAM_CLR jumper in the System Setup program. See Figure 6-1 for jumper location. Check the hard-drive configuration settings in the clear position (pins 1 and 3) and reboot the system. Actual Link Width is x, the specified slot. If...operating system on page 162. See "Getting Help" on page 177. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting Expansion Cards" on hard drive. Reseat the PCIe card in initializing PCIe device; PCI BIOS failed to the expansion card(s). Ensure that all appropriate cables are ...
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... not find a SAS backplane, USB, particular sector on the disk, or SATA cables are installed in a valid configuration. optical drive, or USB device, Ensure that the memory modules are or the requested sector is no device connected Information only. SATA port x...SATA port. specified SATA port is faulty. See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Optical Drive" on page 158, or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 108. System Messages (continued) Message Causes Corrective Actions Quad rank DIMM Invalid memory detected after configuration....
... not find a SAS backplane, USB, particular sector on the disk, or SATA cables are installed in a valid configuration. optical drive, or USB device, Ensure that the memory modules are or the requested sector is no device connected Information only. SATA port x...SATA port. specified SATA port is faulty. See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Optical Drive" on page 158, or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 108. System Messages (continued) Message Causes Corrective Actions Quad rank DIMM Invalid memory detected after configuration....
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... error. See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148 or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 177. Corrective Actions Replace the USB medium or device. See "Getting Help" on page 160 for the appropriate drive(s) installed in your system. If memory has not been added or removed, check...memory module. See "Troubleshooting System Memory" on page 155. 48 About Your System System Messages (continued) Message Causes Sector not found Faulty hard drive, USB Seek error device, or USB medium. The amount of system memory has changed Memory has been added or removed or a memory...
... error. See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148 or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 177. Corrective Actions Replace the USB medium or device. See "Getting Help" on page 160 for the appropriate drive(s) installed in your system. If memory has not been added or removed, check...memory module. See "Troubleshooting System Memory" on page 155. 48 About Your System System Messages (continued) Message Causes Sector not found Faulty hard drive, USB Seek error device, or USB medium. The amount of system memory has changed Memory has been added or removed or a memory...
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... diagnostics. 54 About Your System See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key" on page 157, and "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on selected drive Causes Faulty USB device, USB medium, optical drive assembly, hard drive, or hard-drive subsystem. Warning messages usually interrupt the task and require you run diagnostic tests on the diskette. Table 1-3.
... diagnostics. 54 About Your System See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 148, "Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key" on page 157, and "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on selected drive Causes Faulty USB device, USB medium, optical drive assembly, hard drive, or hard-drive subsystem. Warning messages usually interrupt the task and require you run diagnostic tests on the diskette. Table 1-3.
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...E. Auto automatically chooses the appropriate emulation type for the device. Boot Sequence Retry (Disabled default) If this field provides the location of hard drives. Off disables BIOS support for the device. Off disables BIOS support for the device. Boot Settings Screen Option Description Boot Mode (BIOS ... Switching the boot mode could prevent the system from booting if the operating system was not installed in the same boot mode. Hard-Disk Drive Sequence The sequence of the operating system files for startup. Auto enables BIOS support for the device attached to SATA port D....
...E. Auto automatically chooses the appropriate emulation type for the device. Boot Sequence Retry (Disabled default) If this field provides the location of hard drives. Off disables BIOS support for the device. Off disables BIOS support for the device. Boot Settings Screen Option Description Boot Mode (BIOS ... Switching the boot mode could prevent the system from booting if the operating system was not installed in the same boot mode. Hard-Disk Drive Sequence The sequence of the operating system files for startup. Auto enables BIOS support for the device attached to SATA port D....
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...• #1 and #2 Phillips screwdrivers • Wrist grounding strap Inside the System CAUTION: Many repairs may have cabled or hot-swappable hard drives, redundant or non-redundant power supplies, and an LCD panel or diagnostic indicators. Installing System Components 79 Installing System Components NOTE: Depending ... your warranty. Recommended Tools • Key to servicing that came with hot-swappable hard drives and an LCD panel. Read and follow the safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your system may only be done by the online or telephone ...
...• #1 and #2 Phillips screwdrivers • Wrist grounding strap Inside the System CAUTION: Many repairs may have cabled or hot-swappable hard drives, redundant or non-redundant power supplies, and an LCD panel or diagnostic indicators. Installing System Components 79 Installing System Components NOTE: Depending ... your warranty. Recommended Tools • Key to servicing that came with hot-swappable hard drives and an LCD panel. Read and follow the safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by your system may only be done by the online or telephone ...
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Inside the System 1 12 11 10 9 2 3 4 8 5 7 6 1 system cover 3 system cooling fan 5 heat sink and processor 7 SAS backplane 9 optical drive 11 power supplies 2 cooling shroud 4 expansion card slots (5) 6 memory modules (6) 8 hard drives (4) 10 power distribution board 12 power supply bays (2) 80 Installing System Components Figure 3-1.
Inside the System 1 12 11 10 9 2 3 4 8 5 7 6 1 system cover 3 system cooling fan 5 heat sink and processor 7 SAS backplane 9 optical drive 11 power supplies 2 cooling shroud 4 expansion card slots (5) 6 memory modules (6) 8 hard drives (4) 10 power distribution board 12 power supply bays (2) 80 Installing System Components Figure 3-1.
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See Figure 3-2. 3 Lift the bezel away from the chassis. Front Bezel NOTE: If you are removing or installing a hot-swappable hard drive, the system may remain turned on and in the direction of the arrow and rotate the top end of the front bezel. Figure 3-2. Removing the ...
See Figure 3-2. 3 Lift the bezel away from the chassis. Front Bezel NOTE: If you are removing or installing a hot-swappable hard drive, the system may remain turned on and in the direction of the arrow and rotate the top end of the front bezel. Figure 3-2. Removing the ...
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...to lift the system, get others to assist you are removing a hot-swap component such as directed by your product documentation, or as a hard drive or a power supply, turn off the system and attached peripherals. CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by yourself. Read and follow the... safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by the online or telephone service and support team. Opening the System 1 Unless you . See Figure 3-5. 4 Press the cover...
...to lift the system, get others to assist you are removing a hot-swap component such as directed by your product documentation, or as a hard drive or a power supply, turn off the system and attached peripherals. CAUTION: Many repairs may only be done by yourself. Read and follow the... safety instructions that is not authorized by Dell is not covered by the online or telephone service and support team. Opening the System 1 Unless you . See Figure 3-5. 4 Press the cover...
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... on a flat surface. 7 Reattach any peripherals and connect the system to the system board or an optional controller card. Internal hard drives are connected to an electrical outlet. 8 Turn on the system and attached peripherals. Doing so can be completed. Be aware that... It also supports up to four 3.5-inch cabled SAS or SATA internal hard drives. Front-mounted hard drives are installed internally (see Figure 3-8). Removing a Hard-Drive Blank CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must have been tested and approved for the SAS controller card to...
... on a flat surface. 7 Reattach any peripherals and connect the system to the system board or an optional controller card. Internal hard drives are connected to an electrical outlet. 8 Turn on the system and attached peripherals. Doing so can be completed. Be aware that... It also supports up to four 3.5-inch cabled SAS or SATA internal hard drives. Front-mounted hard drives are installed internally (see Figure 3-8). Removing a Hard-Drive Blank CAUTION: To maintain proper system cooling, all empty hard-drive bays must have been tested and approved for the SAS controller card to...