Dell PowerEdge C1100 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C1100

Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model CS24-TY

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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your computer.

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instructions are not followed.

WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

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Regulatory Model CS24-TY

December 2009 Rev. A00

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Contents

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

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 11

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 12

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 17

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 19

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Beep Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Post Beep Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 33

Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

AMIBIOS Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Processor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

System Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Processor Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

IDE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Super IO Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Boot Settings Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

BMC LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Remote Access Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 47

Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive

Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

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Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive

Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 52

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Heat Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Removing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Supported Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . 63

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Expansion-Card Riser and Expansion Card . . . . . . . 66

Removing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 66

Installing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 67

Removing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Installing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 69

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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Removing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Integrated Storage Controller Cards. . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing the Integrated Storage Controller

Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing the Integrated Storage Controller

Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Removing the Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN). . . . 74

Installing the Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN) . . . . 76

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing the Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . 77

Installing the Non-Redundant Power Supply. . . . 78

Removing the Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 79

Installing the Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 80

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 80

Installing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 81

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing a Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . 83

Expander Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Removing the Expander Board . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing the Expander Board . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Control Panel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing the Control Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Installing the Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Control Panel Assembly (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing the Control Panel Assembly. . . . . . . 89

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 90

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . . 95

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 95

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 96

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 96

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 96

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 97

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 100

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 102

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 106

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Troubleshooting Changes in BIOS Settings . . . . . . 110

Collecting System Event Log for Investigation . . . . 110

5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 111

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

System Configuration Jumper Settings . . . . . . 112

Backplane Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Backplane Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

3.5-Inch Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

2.5-Inch Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

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6 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

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