Dell PowerEdge C6100 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100

Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model XS23-TY3

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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

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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Regulatory Model XS23-TY3

January 2010 Rev. A01

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 16

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

Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 20

Power Supply Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

BMC Heart Beat LED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Collecting System Event Log for Investigation . . . 23

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 35

Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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AMIBIOS Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Processor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

System Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

IDE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Primary IDE Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

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

PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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

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

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

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

System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Remote Access Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 48

IPMI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Power Throttling Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 50

IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Default Gateway IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 53

Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 56

Installing a Hard Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Installing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Removing a System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . 61

Installing a System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . 62

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Heat Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Removing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Installing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Expansion-Card Assembly and Expansion Card . . . . 69

Removing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Installing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Expansion-Card Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing the Expansion-Card Connector . . . . . 72

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Installing the Expansion-Card Connector. . . . . . 74

Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Removing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . 74

Installing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . 75

Removing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 76

Installing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card. . . . . . 77

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Supported DIMM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Interposer Extenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 83

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 84

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

Removing the RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing the RAID Battery Carrier. . . . . . . . . 87

Installing the RAID Battery Carrier . . . . . . . . . 88

System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Installing a System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Opening the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Power Distribution Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing a Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . 94

Installing a Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . 96

Fan Controller Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Installing the Fan Controller Board . . . . . . . . . 98

Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Removing the Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing the Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Backplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Front Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Removing the Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Installing Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 113

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 113

Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 115

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 118

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 118

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 124

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 129

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Backplane Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

3.5" drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

2.5" drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Midplane Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Interposer Extender Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Mezzanine Card Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Fan Controller Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Power Distribution Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . 139

Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

System Configuration Jumper Settings. . . . . . . 140

Backplane Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

6 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

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