Dell PowerEdge T710 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ T710

Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

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Contents

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

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

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

LCD Panel Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

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

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

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

Hard-Drive Status Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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

Guidelines for Connecting External Devices . . . . . . 22

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

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

LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Solving Problems Described by LCD

Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Removing LCD Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . 38

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

SATA Settings Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

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

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

PCI IRQ Assignment Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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

Embedded Server Management Screen

(Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

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

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

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using the UEFI Boot Manager Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

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

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

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

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

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 77

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

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

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

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Installing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Removing a Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing a Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . . 83

Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Removing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Removing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 90

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Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . 91

Removing a Hard Drive From a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Installing a Hard Drive Into a

Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Optical and Tape Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing an Optical or a Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 94

Installing an Optical or Tape Drive . . . . . . . . . 96

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Installing a Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines. . . . . . 114

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Removing an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . 118

Internal SD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing the Internal SD Module. . . . . . . . . 119

Removing the Internal SD Module . . . . . . . . 121

Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Installing an Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . 122

Removing an Internal SD Flash Card . . . . . . . 122

Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

NIC Hardware Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

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RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Removing a RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Installing a RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Removing the Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . . 129

Installing the Chassis Intrusion Switch . . . . . . 131

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Removing an Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Installing an Integrated Storage

Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Removing an Integrated Storage Controller

Card Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Installing an Integrated Storage Controller

Card Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Removing a Cooling-Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . 136

Installing a Cooling-Fan Module . . . . . . . . . . 137

Fan Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Removing the Fan Cage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Installing a Fan Cage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing a VFlash Media. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Removing a VFlash Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller 6

(iDRAC6) Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 140

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 140

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . . 142

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 144

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Control Panel Assembly (Service-Only Procedure) . . 145

Removing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 145

Installing the Control Panel Assembly . . . . . . 148

SAS Backplane (Service-Only Procedure) . . . . . . 149

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . 149

Installing the SAS Backplane. . . . . . . . . . . 151

System Board (Service-Only Procedure) . . . . . . . 152

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

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

Power Distribution Board (Service-Only Procedure) . 156

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 156

Installing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . 158

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 159

Safety First — For You and Your System. . . . . . . . 159

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure. . . . . . . . 159

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . 159

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem. . . . . . . . . 160

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device. . . . . . . . . . 161

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 162

Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 164

Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 165

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Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . . 166

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Troubleshooting an Internal SD Card . . . . . . . . . . 169

Troubleshooting an Internal USB Memory Key . . . . . 170

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting a Tape Backup Unit . . . . . . . . . . 171

Troubleshooting an External Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 172

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . . 175

Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller . . . . 176

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Troubleshooting the Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 181

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 182

When to Use the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . 182

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 182

Embedded System Diagnostics Testing Options . . . . 183

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

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Selecting Devices for Testing. . . . . . . . . . . 183

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 184

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 184

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 185

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

SAS Backplane Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . 189

Power Distribution Board Connectors. . . . . . . . . 191

Disabling a Forgotten Password. . . . . . . . . . . . 192

7 Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Contacting Dell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

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