Personal Computer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Hardware Owner’s Manual
- Contents
- About Your System
- Using the System Setup Program
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Inside the System
- Removing and Replacing the Optional Front Bezel
- Opening and Closing the System
- Cooling Fans
- Cooling Shrouds
- Power Supplies
- Expansion Cards
- RAC Card
- System Memory
- Processors
- Processor VRMs
- Installing a Diskette Drive
- Installing an Optical Drive
- Hard Drives
- SAS Controller Cards
- Connecting an External SAS Tape Drive
- Connecting an External Fibre Channel Storage Device
- System Battery
- Control Panel Assembly (Service-Only Procedure)
- Fan Interposer Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Power Distribution Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Chassis Intrusion Switch (Service-Only Procedure)
- SAS Backplane (Service-Only Procedure)
- System Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First-For You and Your System
- Start-Up Routine
- Checking Basic Power Problems
- Checking the Equipment
- Troubleshooting Serial I/O Problems
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a Wet System
- Troubleshooting a Damaged System
- Troubleshooting the System Battery
- Troubleshooting Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive
- Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting a SAS Controller or SAS RAID Controller
- Troubleshooting an External SAS Tape Drive
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting the Microprocessors
- Running the System Diagnostics
- Jumpers and Connectors
- Getting Help
- Glossary
- Index

Contents 5
Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Removing a Processor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Installing a Processor
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Processor VRMs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Installing a VRM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Removing a VRM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing a Diskette Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Installing an Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Hard Drives
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Before You Begin
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Configuring the Boot Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Removing a Drive Blank
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installing a Drive Blank
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Removing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Installing a Hot-Plug Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Replacing a Hard Drive in a Hard-Drive Carrier
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
SAS Controller Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Removing a SAS Controller Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing a SAS Controller Card
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Installing the SAS RAID Controller Card Battery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Connecting an External SAS Tape Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Connecting an External Fibre Channel Storage Device
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
System Battery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Replacing the System Battery
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Control Panel Assembly (Service-Only Procedure)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Removing the Control Panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Installing the Control Panel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Fan Interposer Board (Service-Only Procedure)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Removing a Fan Interposer Board
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing a Fan Interposer Board
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Power Distribution Board (Service-Only Procedure)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Removing the Power Distribution Board
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing the Power Distribution Board
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85










