Dell PowerEdge R805 System User manual

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Dell™ PowerEdge™ R805 Systems

Hardware Owner’s Manual

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Model EMS01

September 2007 P/N TT864 Rev. A00

Contents 3

Contents

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

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Accessing System Features During Startup . . . . . . 12

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

Hard-Drive Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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

Connecting External Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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

Solving Problems Described by LCD Status

Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . 34

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

4Contents

2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 47

Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Responding to Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . 48

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Memory Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

CPU Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

System and Setup Password Features . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Using the Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Baseboard Management Controller

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 64

BMC Setup Module Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 65

Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Replacing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Contents 5

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Hard Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Installing a Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 74

Installing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . 74

Replacing a Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive

Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Drive Carrier . . . . 76

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Replacing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . 80

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 80

Internal SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing the SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Installing the SD Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

System Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Removing a System Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing a SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . 84

Removing a SAS Controller Daughter Card . . . . 86

RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

6Contents

Configuring the Boot Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Internal USB Memory Key Connector . . . . . . . . . . 89

Installing the Optional Internal USB

Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines . . . . . . 91

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Cooling Shrouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing the Memory Module Cooling

Shrouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing the Processor Cooling Shroud . . . . . 96

Installing the Processor Cooling Shroud . . . . . . 96

Installing the Memory Module Cooling

Shrouds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Fan Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Fan Brackets . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Replacing the Fan Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . . 99

Replacing Expansion-Card Riser 1 . . . . . . . . . 99

Removing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 101

Replacing Expansion-Card Riser 2 . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing the Riser 2 Board From the

Expansion-Card Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Replacing the Riser 2 Board on the

Expansion-Card Bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Removing the RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Installing a RAC Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Contents 7

LOM Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Removing the LOM Daughter Card . . . . . . . . 107

Replacing the LOM Daughter Card . . . . . . . . 109

Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Removing the Optical Drive from the System . . . 109

Installing the Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Removing the Optical Drive From the Optical

Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Installing an Optical Drive Into the Optical

Drive Tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

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

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Memory Sparing Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Integrated NIC TOE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Removing the Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . 127

Installing the Sideplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . 127

SAS/SATA Backplane Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing the SAS/SATA Backplane Board . . . . 129

Installing the SAS/SATA Backplane Board . . . . 130

8Contents

Control Panel Assembly (Service-only

Procedure) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 131

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . . 133

System Board (Service-only Procedure) . . . . . . . . 133

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 137

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 137

Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Checking the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Troubleshooting IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . 138

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting the Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Troubleshooting the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Troubleshooting Basic I/O Functions . . . . . . . . . . 141

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . 142

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 146

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 147

Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Contents 9

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Troubleshooting an SD Card or Internal USB Key . . . 152

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Troubleshooting an External Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 154

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Troubleshooting a SAS Controller

Daughter Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 158

Troubleshooting the Microprocessors . . . . . . . . . 160

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 161

Using Server Administrator Diagnostics . . . . . . . . 161

System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

When to Use the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 162

Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . 162

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Selecting Devices for Testing . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 164

10 Contents

6 Jumpers and Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 165

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

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

SAS/SATA Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . 170

Sideplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Expansion-Card Riser-Board Components and

PCIe Buses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

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