Dell PowerEdge E05S User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ R815

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model: E05S

Regulatory Type: E05S001

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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: E05S

Regulatory Type: E05S001

February 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents 3

Contents

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

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

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

LCD Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 18

Guidelines for Connecting External Devices . . . . . . 20

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

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

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

Viewing Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . 23

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using the System Setup Program Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

SATA Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using the UEFI Boot Manager Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Entering the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . 71

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 73

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 80

Installing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive

Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive

Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

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Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 87

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

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

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Front-Chassis Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Memory Sparing Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . 103

Installing the Cooling Fan Assembly . . . . . . . 104

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Internal NIC Hardware Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . 107

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines. . . . . . 107

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Removing an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . 111

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . 112

Installing Expansion-Card Riser 1. . . . . . . . . 114

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . 114

Installing Expansion-Card Riser 2. . . . . . . . . 115

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Removing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing a RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

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

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 121

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 122

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 123

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Internal Dual SD Module (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing the Internal Dual SD Module . . . . . . 124

Installing the Internal Dual SD Module. . . . . . . 125

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

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

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 132

SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Installing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 136

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 139

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

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Removing the Control Panel

Display Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing the Control Panel

Display Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Removing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . 143

Installing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . 144

System Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Removing the System Board Assembly. . . . . . 145

Installing the System Board Assembly . . . . . . 148

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 151

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 151

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 151

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 151

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 152

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 155

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 156

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting an SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . . 166

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting the Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 171

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 171

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 172

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 172

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 172

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . . 173

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 175

System Board Jumper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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Power Distribution Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 180

Expansion-Card Riser-Board Components and

PCIe Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 183

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

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