Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell EMC DSS8440 Installation and Service Manual
- Contents
- About this document
- DSS8440 system overview
- Technical specifications
- Chassis dimensions
- Chassis weight
- Processor specifications
- PSU specifications
- Cooling fans specifications
- System battery specifications
- Expansion card riser specifications
- GPU specifications
- Memory specifications
- Drive specifications
- Ports and connectors specifications
- Environmental specifications
- System diagnostics and indicator codes
- 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
- System Information
- Viewing System Information
- System Information details
- Memory Settings
- Viewing Memory Settings
- Memory Settings details
- Processor Settings
- Viewing Processor Settings
- Processor Settings details
- SATA Settings
- Viewing SATA Settings
- SATA Settings details
- Boot Settings
- Viewing Boot Settings
- Choosing system boot mode
- Changing boot order
- Network Settings
- Viewing Network Settings
- Network Settings screen details
- UEFI iSCSI Settings
- Viewing UEFI iSCSI Settings
- UEFI iSCSI Settings details
- Integrated Devices
- Viewing Integrated Devices
- Integrated Devices details
- Serial Communication
- Viewing Serial Communication
- Serial Communication details
- System Profile Settings
- Viewing System Profile Settings
- System Profile Settings details
- System Security
- Viewing System Security
- System Security Settings details
- Creating a system and setup password
- Using your system password to secure the system
- Deleting or changing system and setup password
- Operating with setup password enabled
- Redundant OS Control
- Viewing Redundant OS Control
- Redundant OS Control screen details
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Viewing Miscellaneous Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings details
- 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
- System cover
- Front bezel
- Air shroud
- Drives
- Drive backplane
- Power supply unit
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Removing a GPU
- Installing a GPU
- Removing a GPU support bracket
- Installing a GPU support bracket
- Removing the PCIe switch board
- Installing the PCIe switch board
- Removing a GPU power interposer board
- Installing a GPU power interposer board
- Removing a butterfly module and riser 3 board
- Installing the riser 3 board and butterfly module
- Nvidia Tesla T4 GPU
- Nvidia A100 GPU and NVLink bridge
- Nvidia A40 GPU and NVLink bridge
- Processor and heat sink
- System memory
- Riser 2 module
- Riser 1 module
- Network daughter card
- System board tray module
- System board and power interposer board
- Backup battery
- Power distribution board
- PSB power interposer board
- Front control module
- Fan louvers
- Cooling fans
- Fan cage
- Handle
- Slide rail installation
- Cable Routing
- Dell EMC DSS8440 cable instruction
- 3M cable Installation-Config A left
- 3M cable Installation-Config A right
- Fan cable assembly to fan bracket
- Fan cable MB-PDB assembly to MB
- Fan cable MB-PDB assembly to PDB
- Front control cable assembly control board to MB
- GPU power cable assembly GPU card to PSB
- IDC cable MB-PDB assembly to PDB
- IDC cable MB-PDB assembly to MB
- IDC cable PDB-PIB assembly to PIB
- IDC cable PIB-PDB assembly to PDB
- IDC cable Riser1-PDB assembly to PDB
- IDC cable Riser1-PDB assembly to riser board1
- IDC cable PIB-PDB assembly to PDB
- IDC cable Riser 2- PDB assembly to riser board 2
- Mini SAS HD cable assembly PERC-HDBP
- Mini SAS HD cable assembly HDBP-MB
- Power cable BP-PDB assembly to BP
- Power cable BP-PDB assembly to PDB
- Power cable assembly to PDB
- Power cable assembly to PIB
- Power cable1 assembly to Riser1
- Power cable2 Riser-PDB assembly to PDB
- Power cable2 Riser-PDB assembly to Riser
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Option Description
to both the primary add-in video and the embedded video during POST and pre-boot environment. The
embedded video is disabled before the operating system boots. This option is set to Enabled by default.
NOTE: When there are multiple add-in graphic cards installed in the system, the first card discovered
during PCI enumeration is selected as the primary video. You might have to re-arrange the cards in
the slots in order to control which card is the primary video.
Current State of
Embedded Video
Controller
Displays the current state of the embedded video controller. The Current State of Embedded Video
Controller option is a read-only field. If the Embedded Video Controller is the only display capability in the
system (that is, no add-in graphics card is installed), then the Embedded Video Controller is automatically
used as the primary display even if the Embedded Video Controller setting is set to Disabled.
SR-IOV Global
Enable
Enables or disables the BIOS configuration of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) devices. This option
is set to Disabled by default.
Internal SD Card
Port
Enables or disables the internal SD card port of the Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM). This option is set
to On by default.
Internal SD Card
Redundancy
Configures the redundancy mode of the Internal Dual SD Module (IDSDM). When set to Mirror Mode,
data is written on both SD cards. After failure of either card and replacement of the failed card, the data
of the active card is copied to the offline card during the system boot.
When Internal SD Card Redundancy is set to Disabled, only the primary SD card is visible to the OS. This
option is set to Disabled by default.
Internal SD
Primary Card
When Redundancy is set to Disabled, either one of the SD card can be selected to present itself as mass
storage device by setting it to be primary card. By default, the primary SD card is selected to be SD Card
1. If SD Card 1 is not present, then the controller selects SD Card 2 to be the primary SD card.
OS Watchdog
Timer
If your system stops responding, this watchdog timer aids in the recovery of your operating system.
When this option is set to Enabled, the operating system initializes the timer. When this option is set to
Disabled (the default), the timer does not have any effect on the system.
Memory Mapped
I/O above 4 GB
Enables or disables the support for the PCIe devices that need large amounts of memory. Enable this
option only for 64-bit operating systems. This option is set to Enabled by default.
Memory Mapped
I/O above Base
When set to 12 TB, the system maps the MMIO base to 12 TB. Enable this option for an OS that requires
44 bit PCIe addressing. When set to 512 GB, the system maps the MMIO base to 512 GB, and reduces
the maximum support for memory to less than 512 GB. Enable this option only for the 4 GPU DGMA issue.
This option is set to 56 TB by default.
Slot Disablement Enables or disables the available PCIe slots on your system. The slot disablement feature controls the
configuration of the PCIe cards installed in the specified slot. Slots must be disabled only when the
installed peripheral card prevents booting into the operating system or causes delays in system startup. If
the slot is disabled, both the Option ROM and UEFI drivers are disabled. Only slots that are present on the
system are available for control.
Table 14. Slot Disablement
Option Description
Slot 1
Enables or disables or only the boot driver is
disabled for the PCIe slot 1. This option is set to
Enabled by default.
Slot 2
Enables or disables or only the boot driver is
disabled for the PCIe slot 2. This option is set
to Enabled by default.
Slot 3
Enables or disables or only the boot driver is
disabled for the PCIe slot 3. This option is set
to Enabled by default.
Slot Bifurcation Allows Platform Default Bifurcation, Auto discovery of Bifurcation and Manual bifurcation
Control. The default is set to Platform Default Bifurcation. The slot bifurcation field is accessible
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