Dell PowerEdge R210 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™

R210 Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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your computer.

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instructions are not followed.

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injury, or death.

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Contents

1 About Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 13

Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 14

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

Guidelines for Connecting External Devices . . . . . . 17

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

Diagnostic Lights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

2 Using the System Setup Program

and UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Entering the System Setup Program. . . . . . . . . . . 38

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 38

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Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

SATA Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Using the UEFI Boot Manager

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Embedded System Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 56

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 56

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 57

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3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 59

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Optical Drive (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Removing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Installing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Removing a Hard Drive From

a Hard-Drive Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Installing a Hard Drive Into

a Hard-Drive Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 72

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 73

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

Removing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 75

Installing an Expansion-Card Riser. . . . . . . . . 76

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

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Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

General Memory Module

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card. . . . . . . . . 89

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card. . . . . . . . 90

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 92

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 93

Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing a Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing the Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . 100

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Removing the Control Panel Assembly. . . . . . . 102

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 104

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

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

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

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

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

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 109

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 109

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

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

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

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 113

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

Troubleshooting Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 115

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

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

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Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . 119

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . 120

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Troubleshooting an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . 123

Troubleshooting the Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 125

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . 125

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . 126

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . 126

System Diagnostics Testing Options. . . . . . . . . . 126

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Selecting Devices for Testing. . . . . . . . . . . 127

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 127

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 127

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 129

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 132

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7 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

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