Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R730 Owner's Manual
- Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R730 system overview
- 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
- 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
- Cooling fans
- Cooling fan assembly
- System memory
- Processors and heat sinks
- PCIe card holder
- Cable retention bracket
- Integrated storage controller card
- Expansion cards and expansion card riser
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 2 or 3
- Removing an expansion card from the expansion card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card riser 1
- Removing the riser 1 blank
- Installing the riser 1 blank
- Removing expansion card risers
- Installing expansion card risers
- GPU card installation guidelines
- Removing the GPU card
- Installing a GPU card
- IDSDM
- Network daughter card
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- System battery
- Power supply units (PSU)
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- 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 hot swappable hard drive or solid state drive
- Installing a hot swappable hard drive or solid state drive
- 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
- Removing a 1.8-inch hard drive blank
- Installing a 1.8-inch hard drive blank
- Removing a 1.8-inch hard drive from a hard drive carrier
- Installing a 1.8-inch hard drive into a hard drive carrier
- Hard drive backplane
- Tape backup unit (optional)
- Optical drive (optional)
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Control panel assembly
- 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 iDRAC Direct - USB XML configuration
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct - Laptop connection
- 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 tape backup unit
- Troubleshooting a drive or SSD
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- System messages
- Getting help
Integrated Devices on page 55
Serial Communication on page 58
System Profile Settings on page 59
Miscellaneous Settings on page 61
iDRAC Settings utility on page 63
Device Settings on page 63
Related tasks
Viewing System BIOS on page 39
Viewing System BIOS
To view the System BIOS screen, perform the following steps:
Steps
1. Turn on, or restart your system.
2. Press F2 immediately after you see the following message:
F2 = System Setup
NOTE: If your operating system begins to load before you press F2, wait for the system to finish booting, and then
restart your system and try again.
3. On the System Setup Main Menu screen, click System BIOS.
Related references
System BIOS on page 38
System BIOS Settings details on page 39
System BIOS Settings details
About this task
The System BIOS Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Option
Description
System
Information
Specifies information about the system such as the system model name, BIOS version, and Service Tag.
Memory Settings Specifies information and options related to the installed memory.
Processor
Settings
Specifies information and options related to the processor such as speed and cache size.
SATA Settings Specifies options to enable or disable the integrated SATA controller and ports.
Boot Settings Specifies options to specify the boot mode (BIOS or UEFI). Enables you to modify UEFI and BIOS boot
settings.
Network Settings Specifies options to change the network settings.
Integrated
Devices
Specifies options to manage integrated device controllers and ports and specify related features and
options.
Serial
Communication
Specifies options to manage the serial ports and specify related features and options.
System Profile
Settings
Specifies options to change the processor power management settings, memory frequency, and so on.
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