HP ProLiant DL385 Generation 2 Server Maintenance and Service Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP ProLiant DL385 Generation 2 Server Maintenance and Service Guide
- Notice
- Contents
- Customer self repair
- Illustrated parts catalog
- Removal and replacement procedures
- Required tools
- Safety considerations
- Preparation procedures
- Access panel
- SAS hard drive blank
- Hot-plug SAS hard drive
- Power supply blank
- Hot-plug power supply
- DC power supply
- Media drive or blank
- Hot-plug fan
- Power supply cage assembly
- Battery-backed write cache procedures
- Air baffle
- Processor fan bracket
- Front bezel
- Systems Insight Display
- Fan board
- Processor fan bracket plate
- Media drive ejector assembly
- PPM
- PPM retainer
- Heatsink
- Processor
- DIMMs
- Power supply backplane
- Hard drive backplane
- Hard drive backplane retainer
- PCI riser cage
- Expansion slot covers
- Expansion slot cover retainer (slots 1 and 2)
- Expansion boards
- Battery
- System board
- I/O fan bracket
- Cabling
- Diagnostic tools
- Component identification
- Front panel components
- Front panel LEDs and buttons
- Rear panel components
- Rear panel LEDs and buttons
- System board
- Systems Insight Display LEDs
- Systems Insight Display LEDs and internal health LED combinations
- Device numbers
- SAS and SATA hard drive LEDs
- SAS and SATA hard drive LED combinations
- PCI riser cage LED
- Battery pack LEDs
- Hot-plug fans (6-fan configuration)
- Hot-plug fans (12-fan configuration)
- Fan board components
- Specifications
- Acronyms and abbreviations

Contents 3
Contents
Customer self repair...................................................................................................................... 6
Parts only warranty service ......................................................................................................................... 6
Illustrated parts catalog ............................................................................................................... 17
Mechanical components........................................................................................................................... 17
System components ................................................................................................................................. 21
Removal and replacement procedures........................................................................................... 27
Required tools......................................................................................................................................... 27
Safety considerations............................................................................................................................... 27
Preventing electrostatic discharge .................................................................................................... 27
Server warnings and cautions ......................................................................................................... 27
Preparation procedures............................................................................................................................ 28
Extend the server from the rack........................................................................................................ 28
Power down the server................................................................................................................... 29
Remove the server from the rack...................................................................................................... 30
Access the product rear panel......................................................................................................... 30
Access panel .......................................................................................................................................... 31
SAS hard drive blank............................................................................................................................... 31
Hot-plug SAS hard drive........................................................................................................................... 32
Power supply blank ................................................................................................................................. 33
Hot-plug power supply............................................................................................................................. 33
DC power supply .................................................................................................................................... 34
Media drive or blank............................................................................................................................... 36
Hot-plug fan ........................................................................................................................................... 37
Power supply cage assembly .................................................................................................................... 38
Battery-backed write cache procedures ...................................................................................................... 39
Removing the cache module ........................................................................................................... 39
Removing the battery pack.............................................................................................................. 40
Recovering data from the battery-backed write cache......................................................................... 41
Air baffle ............................................................................................................................................... 41
Processor fan bracket............................................................................................................................... 42
Front bezel ............................................................................................................................................. 43
Systems Insight Display ............................................................................................................................ 44
Fan board.............................................................................................................................................. 45
Processor fan bracket plate....................................................................................................................... 46
Media drive ejector assembly ................................................................................................................... 47
PPM ...................................................................................................................................................... 48
PPM retainer........................................................................................................................................... 49
Heatsink................................................................................................................................................. 50
Processor ............................................................................................................................................... 52
DIMMs................................................................................................................................................... 58
Memory options ............................................................................................................................ 59
Power supply backplane .......................................................................................................................... 60
Hard drive backplane.............................................................................................................................. 61
Hard drive backplane retainer .................................................................................................................. 62
PCI riser cage......................................................................................................................................... 62










