Operation Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- 1 Preface
- 2 Installation steps, overview
- 3 Important information
- 4 Hardware installation
- 5 Starting up and operation
- 5.1 Access to the drives (floorstand model)
- 5.2 Control elements and indicators
- 5.3 Switching the server on and off
- 5.4 Configuring the server
- 5.4.1 Configuring the onboard SATA controller
- 5.4.2 Configuring the SAS/SATA RAID controller
- 5.4.3 Configuring the server and installing the operating system with the ServerView Installation Manager
- 5.4.4 Configuring the server and installing the operating system without the ServerView Installation Manager
- 5.5 Cleaning the server
- 6 Property and data protection
- 7 Troubleshooting and tips
- 7.1 Power-on indicator remains unlit
- 7.2 Server switches itself off
- 7.3 Screen remains blank
- 7.4 Flickering stripes on monitor screen
- 7.5 No screen display or display drifts
- 7.6 No mouse pointer displayed on screen
- 7.7 Incorrect date and time
- 7.8 Drives reported as “dead” when starting system
- 7.9 Added drive reported as defective
- 7.10 Error message on screen
- 7.11 Expansion cards or onboard devices not recognized
- 7.12 Temperature warning
- 7.13 No effect of keyboard or mouse
- 7.14 Optical drive cannot read data
- 8 CSS components
- 8.1 Hot-plug components
- 8.2 Non-hot-plug components
- 9 Appendix: server specification
- Index

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Control elements and indicators Starting up and operation
Hard disk drive indicators
Figure 15: Indicators on the 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch HDD modules
1 HDD BUSY (green)
– Lit: HDD in active phase (drive active, drive being accessed)
– Does not light: HDD inactive
2 HDD FAULT (orange)
(in conjunction with a RAID controller)
● SAS server variant
– Does not light: no HDD error
– Lit: HDD Faulty (drive defective/needs replacing, drive failed, drive
deactivated by software or the HDDmodule is not correctly inserted)
– Slow flashing: HDD Rebuild (the data is being restored after
changing a drive)
– Fast flashing: HDD Identify
● SATA server variant
– Does not light: no HDD error
– Lit: HDD Faulty or Rebuild Stopped (drive defective and must be
replaced, a rebuild process was stopped or the module is not
correctly inserted)
– Slow flashing: HDD Rebuild (the data is being restored after
changing a drive)
– Fast flashing: HDD Identify
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