Dell PowerEdge R510 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™

R510 Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model E12S Series and E13S Series

Regulatory Type E12S001 and E13S001

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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

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 E12S Series and E13S Series

Regulatory Type E12S001 and E13S001

November 2009 Rev. A00

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Contents

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

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

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

LCD Panel Features (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 22

Guidelines for Connecting Optional External

Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Diagnostic Lights (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

LCD Status Messages (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Solving Problems Described by LCD

Status Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . 41

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

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Diagnostics Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 62

Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

SATA Settings Screen (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 67

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Embedded Server Management Screen . . . . . . 70

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Using the UEFI Boot Manager Navigation Keys . . 74

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 80

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 81

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 81

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 83

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 93

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Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing a Cabled Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Installing a Cabled Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Internal Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Removing an Internal Hard Drive Bay . . . . . . . 99

Installing an Internal Hard Drive Bay . . . . . . . 101

Removing an Internal Hard Drive From the

Internal Hard-Drive Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Optical Drive (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Installing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Removing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 110

Installing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . 111

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 112

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 112

Removing a Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . 112

Installing a Non-Redundant Power Supply . . . . 114

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System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers. . . . . . 122

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 122

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Removing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 127

Installing an Expansion-Card Riser. . . . . . . . . 128

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 129

Installing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 131

iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 132

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . 133

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 134

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 136

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 137

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 143

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Removing the RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Control Panel Assembly—LED (Optional) . . . . . . . 147

Removing the Control Panel Assembly

(Four–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Installing the Control Panel Assembly

(Four–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Removing the Control-Panel Module–LED

(Twelve–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Installing the Control-Panel Module–LED

(Twelve–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Control Panel Assembly—LCD (Optional) . . . . . . . 151

Removing the Control Panel Display Module. . . 151

Installing the Control Panel Display Module . . . 152

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 152

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 154

Front-Panel IO Module (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Removing the Front-Panel IO Module

(Twelve–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Installing the Front-Panel IO Module

(Twelve–Hard-Drive System) . . . . . . . . . . . 156

SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . 156

Installing the SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . 160

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 161

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 164

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System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 169

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 170

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 174

Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 174

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 176

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . . 179

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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Troubleshooting an Internal Hard Drive . . . . . . . . 182

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 183

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 189

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . 189

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . 190

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . 190

Embedded System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . 191

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Selecting Devices for Testing. . . . . . . . . . . 191

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 191

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 192

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 193

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 196

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