Dell DX6012S User manual

Dell™ DX6012S Systems

Hardware Owner’s

Manual

Regulatory Model E13S Series

Regulatory Type 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.

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personal injury, or death.

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Regulatory Model E13S Series

Regulatory Type E13S001

March 2010 Rev. A00

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Contents

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

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

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 15

Guidelines for Connecting Optional External

Devices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Power Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Diagnostic Lights (Optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

System Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Warning Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Diagnostics Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Alert Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

2 Using the System Setup Program and

UEFI Boot Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Choosing the System Boot Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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Entering the System Setup Program . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Responding to Error Messages. . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the System Setup Program Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Main Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Memory Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Processor Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

SATA Settings Screen (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 51

Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Integrated Devices Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

PCI IRQ Assignments Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Serial Communication Screen . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Power Management Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

System Security Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Exit Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Entering the UEFI Boot Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Using the UEFI Boot Manager Navigation

Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

UEFI Boot Manager Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

UEFI Boot Settings Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

System Utilities Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

System and Setup Password Features. . . . . . . . . . 60

Using the System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

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

Embedded System Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Baseboard Management Controller

Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Entering the BMC Setup Module . . . . . . . . . . 65

iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Entering the iDRAC Configuration Utility . . . . . . 65

3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . . 67

Recommended Tools. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Inside the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Front Bezel (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

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

Installing the Front Bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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

Opening the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

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

Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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

Installing a Hot-Swap Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . 75

Removing a Hard Drive From a Hard-Drive

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

Installing a Hard Drive Into a Hard-Drive

Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Replacing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Removing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . 81

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Installing a Redundant Power Supply . . . . . . . 82

Removing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 83

Installing the Power Supply Blank . . . . . . . . . 83

System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

General Memory Module Installation

Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Mode-Specific Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Expansion Cards and Expansion-Card Risers . . . . . . 91

Expansion Card Installation Guidelines. . . . . . . 91

Installing an Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing an Expansion Card. . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Removing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . 95

Installing an Expansion-Card Riser . . . . . . . . . 96

Integrated Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Removing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 97

Installing the Storage Controller Card . . . . . . . 99

iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Installing an iDRAC6 Express Card . . . . . . . . 100

iDRAC6 Enterprise Card (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . 101

Removing an iDRAC6 Express Card. . . . . . . . 101

Installing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card. . . . . . . 102

Removing an iDRAC6 Enterprise Card . . . . . . 104

VFlash Media (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Installing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing a VFlash Media Card . . . . . . . . . 105

Processor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

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Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 110

SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Removing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Installing the SAS Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Removing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 115

Replacing the Power Distribution Board . . . . . . 118

System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Removing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Installing the System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 129

Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 129

Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 130

Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 134

Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 134

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Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 139

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Troubleshooting Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 145

Using Online Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . 145

When to Use the Embedded System

Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . 146

Embedded System Diagnostics Testing

Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Using the Custom Test Options . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Selecting Devices for Testing. . . . . . . . . . . 147

Selecting Diagnostics Options . . . . . . . . . . 147

Viewing Information and Results . . . . . . . . . 148

6 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 149

System Board Jumpers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

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System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Disabling a Forgotten Password . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

7 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157

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