Dell POWEREDGE R710 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™

R710 Systems

Hardware Owner’s Manual

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.

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September 2009 Rev. A03

Contents 3

Contents

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

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

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

LCD Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Home Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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

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

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns for RAID . . . . . . . . . 18

Back Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 19

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

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

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

Viewing Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

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

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

4Contents

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager 55

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Responding to Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using the System Setup Program

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

SATA Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Embedded Server Management Screen . . . . . . 64

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Using the UEFI Boot Manager

Navigation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

UEFI Boot Manager Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Contents 5

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 74

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 75

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Information Tag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Removing the Information Tag . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Replacing the Information Tag . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Mixed SAS/SATA Hard-Drive Configurations . . . 81

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive

Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive

Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Replacing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 88

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 88

6Contents

Internal SD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Installing the Internal SD Module . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing the Internal SD Module . . . . . . . . . 90

Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing the Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . . 90

Removing the Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . 91

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Internal USB Cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Removing the Internal USB Cable . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing the Internal USB Cable . . . . . . . . . 93

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6

(iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 94

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 94

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 95

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

NIC Hardware Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing the Fan Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Replacing the Fan Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Removing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Installing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Contents 7

Internal Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Installing the Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . 107

Removing the Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . 110

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Removing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Installing the Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Removing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Cable Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Removing the Cable Retention Bracket . . . . . . 118

Installing the Cable Retention Bracket . . . . . . 119

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . 119

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 119

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . . 123

Replacing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . . 124

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 125

Replacing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 126

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 2 From the

Expansion-Card Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Replacing the Riser 2 Board on the

Expansion-Card Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

8Contents

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Removing the Control Panel Display Module . . . 143

Installing the Control Panel Display Module . . . . 143

Removing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . 144

Installing the Control Panel Board . . . . . . . . . 145

SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Installing a SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 153

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 154

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 155

Contents 9

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 159

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Troubleshooting an Internal SD Card . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . 163

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

Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . 165

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 168

Troubleshooting the Processor(s) . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 173

Using Dell™ PowerEdge™ Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 173

System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

When to Use the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 174

Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

10 Contents

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 174

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . . 176

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 177

System Board Jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Expansion-Card Riser-Board Components and

PCIe Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

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