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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R300 Systems

Hardware Owner’s Manual

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Notes, Notices, and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data

and tells you how to avoid the problem.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury,

or death.

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trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries; Red Hat is a registered

trademark of Red Hat, Inc.; UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States

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Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming

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Model SMT

June 2009 P/N XK127 Rev. A01

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Contents

1 About Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Accessing System Features During Startup . . . . . . 12

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 13

Hard-Drive Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 19

Connecting External Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Solving Problems Described by LCD Status Messages 33

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . 33

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 47

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . 47

Responding to Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 47

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Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . 48

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Memory Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

CPU Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

SATA Configuration Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 54

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 63

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 63

BMC Setup Module Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 65

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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System Board Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing the System Board Shroud . . . . . . . . 72

Installing the System Board Shroud . . . . . . . . 74

Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Removing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Removing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 75

Installing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . 76

Replacing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive Carrier 78

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Drive Carrier . . . . 78

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing the Optical Drive from the System . . . 80

Installing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing the Optical Drive in the Optical Drive Tray 82

Removing the Optical Drive From the Optical Drive Tray 83

Cooling Fan Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Removing the Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing the Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Power Supply Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing the Power Supply Fan Assembly . . . . 87

Installing the Power Supply Fan Assembly . . . . 89

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Replacing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing the Optional Internal USB Memory Key . 91

RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

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Removing the RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing a RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Riser Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing the Riser Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing the Riser Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Backplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing the Backplane Board . . . . . . . . . . 101

Installing the Backplane Board . . . . . . . . . . 103

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Memory Module Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 103

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Replacing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 114

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 116

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 117

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 119

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

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Removing the System Board Assembly . . . . . . 120

Installing the System Board Assembly . . . . . . . 122

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 125

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 125

Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Checking the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . 126

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . 126

Troubleshooting the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Troubleshooting the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Troubleshooting Serial I/O Problems . . . . . . . . . . 128

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 133

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Troubleshooting a SCSI Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Troubleshooting a Hot-plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 145

Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller . . . . 147

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting the Microprocessors . . . . . . . . . 151

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 153

Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 153

System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

When to Use the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 154

Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 154

Using Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . . 156

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 157

System Board Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Riser Card Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

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Control Panel Assembly Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 161

SAS/SATA Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . 162

Expansion Card Connectors for SAS Controller Daughter Cards 162

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Glossary 169

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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