Owners Manual
Installing a hot-swap hard drive..................................................................................................101
Removing a hard drive from a hard-drive carrier...................................................................... 102
Installing a hard drive into a hard-drive carrier..........................................................................102
Hard-drive backplane....................................................................................................................... 103
Removing the hard-drive backplane..........................................................................................103
Installing the hard-drive backplane............................................................................................104
Removing the optional hard-drive backplane (back)................................................................ 105
Removing the control panel....................................................................................................... 105
Installing the control panel.........................................................................................................106
Removing the I/O panel..............................................................................................................107
Installing the I/O panel................................................................................................................108
Removing the hard-drive backplane from the hard-drive tray.................................................109
Installing the hard-drive backplane in the hard-drive tray........................................................ 110
5 Troubleshooting your system.........................................................................111
Safety first—for you and your system................................................................................................111
Troubleshooting system startup failure............................................................................................ 111
Troubleshooting external connections.............................................................................................111
Troubleshooting the video subsystem..............................................................................................111
Troubleshooting a USB device.......................................................................................................... 111
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)................................................................ 112
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (laptop connection)........................................................................113
Troubleshooting a serial I/O device..................................................................................................113
Troubleshooting a NIC...................................................................................................................... 113
Troubleshooting a wet system..........................................................................................................114
Troubleshooting a damaged system................................................................................................ 115
Troubleshooting the system battery.................................................................................................115
Troubleshooting power supply units................................................................................................116
Power source problems.............................................................................................................. 116
PSU problems.............................................................................................................................. 116
Troubleshooting cooling problems.................................................................................................. 117
Troubleshooting cooling fans........................................................................................................... 117
Troubleshooting system memory.....................................................................................................118
Troubleshooting an SD card............................................................................................................. 119
Troubleshooting a hard drive............................................................................................................119
Troubleshooting a storage controller.............................................................................................. 120
Troubleshooting expansion cards.....................................................................................................121
Troubleshooting processors............................................................................................................. 121
System messages.............................................................................................................................. 122
Warning messages.......................................................................................................................122
Diagnostic messages...................................................................................................................122
Alert messages.............................................................................................................................122
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