Dell POWEREDGE R515 Instructions for use

Dell PowerEdge

R515 Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model E12S Series and E13S Series

Regulatory Type E12S002 and E13S002

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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 E12S Series and E13S Series

Regulatory Type E12S002 and E13S002

August 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 (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Setup Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

View Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 20

Guidelines for Connecting Optional External

Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Diagnostic Lights (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

LCD Status Messages (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Solving Problems Described by

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . 39

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Diagnostics Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

SATA Settings Screen (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 62

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Embedded Server Management Screen . . . . . . 66

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the UEFI Boot Manager

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Embedded System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Baseboard Management Controller Configuration . . . 77

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 77

iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Entering the iDRAC6 Configuration Utility . . . . . 78

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 79

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

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Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

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

Removing an Internal Hard-Drive Bay . . . . . . . 91

Installing an Internal Hard-Drive Bay. . . . . . . . 93

Removing an Internal Hard Drive From the

Internal Hard-Drive Bay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Optical Drive (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Removing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Installing an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Installing a Power Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 104

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 104

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . 111

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Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 111

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Removing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 116

Installing an Expansion-Card Riser. . . . . . . . . 118

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 119

Installing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 121

iDRAC6 Express Card (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . 122

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . 123

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 124

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 126

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 127

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 133

RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Removing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Control Panel Assembly—LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Removing the Control-Panel Module–LED . . . . . 137

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Installing the Control-Panel Module–LED . . . . 139

Control Panel Assembly—LCD (Optional) . . . . . . . 140

Removing the Control Panel Display

Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing the Control Panel Display

Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 141

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 143

SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . 143

Installing the SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . 147

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 148

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 151

System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Installing the System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . 154

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 157

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 159

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

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Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 163

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key . . . . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting an Internal Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . 170

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller. . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Troubleshooting Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 177

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 177

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 178

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 178

Embedded System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . 179

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

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Selecting Devices for Testing. . . . . . . . . . . 179

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 179

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 180

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 181

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 184

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

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