User's Manual

Contents 7
Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . 102
Troubleshooting a NIC
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Responding to a Systems Management Software
Alert Message
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting a Wet System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting a Damaged System
. . . . . . . . . . 105
Troubleshooting the System Battery
. . . . . . . . . . 106
Troubleshooting the Power Supply
. . . . . . . . . . . 106
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
. . . . . . . 107
Troubleshooting a Fan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Troubleshooting System Memory
. . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . 113
Troubleshooting the Microprocessor
. . . . . . . . . . 114
5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 117
Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 117
System Diagnostics Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
When to Use the System Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . 118
Running the System Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . 118
From the Utility Partition
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
From Removable Bootable Media
. . . . . . . . . 118
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