Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R430 Owner's Manual
- Dell PowerEdge R430 system overview
- Supported configurations for the PowerEdge R430 system
- Front panel
- Back panel features
- Diagnostic indicators
- Locating service tag of your system
- Documentation resources
- Technical specifications
- Initial system setup and configuration
- Pre-operating system management applications
- Options to manage the pre-operating system applications
- System Setup
- Viewing System Setup
- System Setup details
- System BIOS
- Viewing System BIOS
- System BIOS Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Network Settings
- System Security
- System Information
- Memory Settings
- Processor Settings
- SATA Settings
- Integrated Devices
- Serial Communication
- System Profile Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings
- iDRAC Settings utility
- Device Settings
- Dell Lifecycle Controller
- Boot Manager
- PXE boot
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- Front bezel (optional)
- System cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- System memory
- Hard drives
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 3.5-inch cabled hard drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch cabled hard drive carrier
- Removing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Removing a 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive adapter from a 3.5-inch hot swappable hard drive carrier
- Installing a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter into a hot swap hard drive carrier
- Removing a 2.5-inch hard drive from a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter
- Installing a 2.5-inch hard drive into a 3.5-inch hard drive adapter
- Removing a hard drive or a solid state drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive or solid state drives into a hard drive carrier
- Optical drive (optional)
- Cooling fans
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- iDRAC port card (optional)
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Integrated storage controller card
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- System battery
- Hard-drive backplane
- Control panel
- Power interposer board
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Troubleshooting your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting a serial input and output device
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a wet system
- Troubleshooting a damaged system
- Troubleshooting the system battery
- Troubleshooting power supply units
- Troubleshooting cooling problems
- Troubleshooting cooling fans
- Troubleshooting system memory
- Troubleshooting an internal USB key
- Troubleshooting a micro SD card
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a drive or SSD
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Expansion cards and expansion card riser
An expansion card in the system is an add-on card that can be inserted into an expansion slot on the system board or riser card
to add enhanced functionality to the system through the expansion bus.
NOTE: A System Event Log (SEL) event is logged if an expansion card riser is unsupported or missing. It does not prevent
your system from turning on and no BIOS POST message or F1/F2 pause is displayed.
Expansion card installation guidelines
Your system supports Generation 1, Generation 2, and Generation 3 cards. The following table provides riser configurations for
R430 systems:
NOTE: Full-height: 312mm, Half-height: 175.26mm, Low-profile: 119.91mm.
Table 41. Expansion card slots available on the expansion-card riser
PCIe slot on the expansion
card riser
Processor Link width Slot width Height Length
PCIE_G3_x8 /
Butterfly riser
Right - Slot 1 1 x8 x16 Full height Half length
Left - Slot 2 x8 x16 Half height Half length
PCIE_G3_x16 /
Left or right riser
Right riser -
Slot 1
1 x16 x16 Half height Half length
Left riser -
Slot 2
x16 x16 Half height Half length
PCIE_BTB_x16 2 Not supported Not supported
NOTE: The PCIE_G3_X8 and PCIE_G3_X16 are the two different types of risers supported on R430 systems. You can
install an expansion card on the system board only using expansion-card riser.
NOTE: The expansion cards are not hot-swappable.
The following table provides a guide for installing expansion cards to ensure proper cooling and mechanical fit. The expansion
cards with the highest priority must be installed first using the slot priority indicated. All other expansion cards must be installed
in card priority and slot priority order.
Table 42. Expansion card installation order (Low Profile + Low Profile configuration)
Card priority Card type Slot priority Maximum allowed
1 RAID Integrated Storage Integrated Slot 1
RAID External Storage 2, 1 1
2 Infiniband single Port/Dual (Mellanox) 2, 1 2
3 40 Gb NICs 2, 1 2
4 10 Gb NICs 2, 1 2
5 FC8 HBA 2, 1 2
6 1 Gb NICs 2, 1 2
7 12 GB SAS HBA 2, 1 2
HBA330 Integrated Slot 1
Table 43. Expansion card installation order (Full Height +Low Profile configuration)
Card priority Card type Slot priority Maximum allowed
1 RAID Integrated Storage Integrated Slot 1
112 Installing and removing system components