Dell PowerEdge C2100 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C2100

Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model FS12-TY

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

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

injury, or death.

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Trademarks used in this text: Dell™ and the DELL logo are trademarks of Dell Inc.

Regulatory Model FS12-TY

2013 - 11 Rev. A02

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Contents

1 About Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . . 9

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 10

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 14

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Power and System Board Status Codes . . . . . . . . . 17

Collecting System Event Log for Investigation . . . . . 18

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Beep Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Post Beep Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 37

Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

AMIBIOS Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Processor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

System Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Processor Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

IDE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Super IO Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Boot Settings Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

iBMC LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Remote Access Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 51

Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Removing the Optional Internal Hard Drive . . . . 57

Installing the Optional Internal Hard Drive . . . . . 58

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Heat Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Removing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Installing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Removing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Installing the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

General Memory Module

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Memory Socket Location on the

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Supported Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . 71

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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Expansion-Card Riser and Expansion Card . . . . . . . 75

Removing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 75

Installing the Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 77

Removing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing the Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Integrated Storage Controller Cards. . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Dual RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Removing a Dual RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing the Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN). . . . 88

Installing the Mezzanine Card (10 GbE LAN) . . . . 90

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing the Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 93

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing the Power Distribution

Board Assembly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing a Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . . 95

Installing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . . 96

Removing the Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Installing the Fan Module. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Removing the Control Panel Assembly. . . . . . . 100

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 102

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Removing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Installing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 109

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 109

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 110

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 110

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 110

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 111

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Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 116

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Troubleshooting Changes in BIOS Settings . . . . . . 124

5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

System Configuration Jumper Settings. . . . . . 125

Backplane Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Backplane Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Power Distribution Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 131

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