Dell PowerEdge T310 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ T310

Systems

Hardware Owners

Manual

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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

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Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the System Setup Program Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

SATA Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

PCI IRQ Assignment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Embedded Server Management Screen

(Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the UEFI Boot Manager Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 71

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 76

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 76

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 77

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 79

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Front Bezel Inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing the Front Bezel Insert . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Front Bezel Insert . . . . . . . . . . 83

EMI Filler Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing an EMI Filler Panel . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing an EMI Filler Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing the Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . 87

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Installing the Expansion Card Stabilizer . . . . . . 87

Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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 or a Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 99

Installing an Optical or Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 100

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 103

Installing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 104

Removing a Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . 105

Installing a Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . 106

System Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Removing the System Fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Installing the System Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

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General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 114

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 118

iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card

(Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 121

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 123

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Installing a VFlash Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing a VFlash Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Internal USB Memory Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 130

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Removing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

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Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Removing the Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . 134

Installing the Chassis Intrusion Switch. . . . . . 135

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 136

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 138

SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . 138

Installing the SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . 140

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 140

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 142

System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Installing the System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . 144

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 147

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 147

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 147

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 148

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 148

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

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Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 152

Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 152

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

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 165

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 166

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 166

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 167

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 167

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Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 167

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 168

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 169

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 173

Power Distribution Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 174

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 174

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

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