Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Safety Instructions Preface Introduction Using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers Using the System Setup Program Using the Resource Configuration Utility Technical Specifications I/O Ports and Connectors Maintaining the System Regulatory Notices Warranty, Return Policy, and Year 2000 Statement of Compliance Glossary Model SML Information in this document is subject to change without notice.
Back to Contents Page Using the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD: Dell™ PowerEdge 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Utility Partition Starting the Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD Video Driver Navigating the CD Asset Tag Utility Using the Setup Modes Overview The Dell OpenManage Server Assistant CD contains utilities, diagnostics, documentation, drivers, and other items that can help you configure a PowerEdge 4400 system to best meet your needs.
1. Click the SETUP icon at the top of the screen. 2. Click Express Setup. 3. Follow the directions on the screen to complete the installation and configuration. Express Setup allows you to perform the following tasks: l Create the Express Setup diskette l Enter operating system and hard-disk drive information l Configure the operating system l Perform setup Custom Setup Use Custom Setup if your system has special configuration requirements. To start Custom Setup, perform the following steps: 1.
Create Diskettes: Create Blank, Formatted diskette Creates a blank, formatted diskette. Create Utility and Diagnostics diskettes: Create Resource Configuration Utility diskettes Creates a bootable diskette for running the RCU. The RCU detects expansion cards and slots, enabling automatic configuration. Create PERC 2 Configuration Utility diskette Creates a bootable diskette for running the RAID controller configuration utility for the specified Dell RAID host adapter card.
. Select the Settings tab. 6. Click Display Type and then click Change in the Adapter box. A list of available video drivers is displayed. 7. Click Have Disk. 8. Insert the video driver installation diskette into the diskette drive; then click OK in the Install From Disk window. 9. Make sure that ATI Rage IIc (the default) is selected in the video driver list, and click Install. The Installing Drivers dialog box appears. 10. Click Yes to proceed.
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Back to Contents Page Using the Resource Configuration Utility: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Advanced Menu Starting the RCU Resolving Resource Conflicts Main Menu Overview The Resource Configuration Utility (RCU) is used to tell the system what expansion cards are installed and which expansion slots they occupy. With this information, the system automatically configures Plug and Play expansion cards and Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) expansion cards.
Starting the RCU If you are running the RCU from your hard-disk drive, remove any terminate-and-stay-resident (TSR) programs from memory before starting the utility. These programs take up space in system memory even when they are not running, thus reducing the amount of memory available to the RCU. See the documentation that accompanied these programs for instructions on removing them from memory. If you start the utility and there is not enough memory to run it, a message is displayed.
When you select the Step 2: Add or remove boards option, the RCU lists all the expansion slots in your computer. (You may have to press to view the entire list.) If you copied a card's configuration file to your RCU diskette or to the RCU configuration subdirectory (rcu) on your hard-disk drive, the card name appears in the expansion slot in which the card is installed.
A pop-up menu appears, listing the options for that category. To select an option, press the up- or down-arrow key to highlight the option and press . NOTES: Several system board categories allow you to edit such resources as memory address, I/O ports, IRQs, and direct memory access (DMA) channels. It may be necessary to edit these resources to resolve a configuration conflict. To view the resource screen for any category, highlight the option and press .
Exit From This Utility The Exit from this utility option allows you to exit from the RCU and reboot your computer system. Advanced Menu The Advanced menu lets you lock or unlock cards in a configuration, view detailed information about the system, and maintain .sci files. To see the Advanced menu, press while in the Step 3: View or edit details menu.
Back to Contents Page Glossary: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide A • B • C • D • E • F • G • H • I• J • K • L • M • N • O • P • Q • R • S • T • U • V • W • X • Y• Z The following list defines or identifies technical terms, abbreviations, and acronyms used in Dell user documents. A A Abbreviation for ampere(s). AC Abbreviation for alternating current. adapter card An expansion card that plugs into an expansion-card connector on the computer's system board.
to the configuration of your computer, you should back up important start-up files, such as autoexec.bat and config.sys for MS-DOS or win.ini and system.ini for Microsoft Windows. base memory Synonym for conventional memory. BASIC Acronym for Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, a programming language. MS-DOS includes a version of BASIC. batch file An ASCII text file containing a list of commands that run in sequence. Batch files must have a filename extension of .bat.
bus A bus forms an information pathway between the components of a computer. Your computer contains an expansion bus that allows the microprocessor to communicate with controllers for all the various peripheral devices connected to the computer. Your computer also contains an address bus and a data bus for communications between the microprocessor and RAM. byte Eight contiguous bits of information; the basic data unit used by your computer.
A chip or expansion card that controls the transfer of data between the microprocessor and a peripheral such as a diskette drive or the keyboard. conventional memory The first 640 KB of RAM. Unless they are specially designed, MS-DOS programs are limited to running in conventional memory. See also EMM, expanded memory, extended memory, HMA, memory manager, upper memory area, and XMM. coprocessor A coprocessor relieves the computer's microprocessor of specific processing tasks.
Acronym for Deutsche Industrie Norm. DIP Acronym for dual in-line package. A circuit board, such as a system board or expansion card, may contain DIP switches for configuring the circuit board. DIP switches are always toggle switches, with an ON position and an OFF position. directory Directories help keep related files organized in a hierarchical, "inverted tree" structure.
Abbreviation for double-sided/double-density. DS/HD Abbreviation for double-sided/high-density. DTE Abbreviation for data terminal equipment. Any device (such as a computer system) that can send data in digital form by means of a cable or communications line. The DTE is connected to the cable or communications line through a data communications equipment (DCE) device such as a modem. E ECC Abbreviation for error checking and correction. ECP Abbreviation for Extended Capabilities Port.
ESDI Acronym for enhanced small-device interface. expanded memory A technique for accessing RAM above 1 MB. To enable expanded memory on your computer, you must use an EMM. You should configure your system to support expanded memory only if you run application programs that can use (or require) expanded memory. See also conventional memory, EMM, extended memory, and memory manager.
GB Abbreviation for gigabyte(s). A gigabyte equals 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes. graphics coprocessor See coprocessor. graphics mode See video mode. guarding A type of data redundancy that uses a set of physical drives to store data and a single, additional drive to store parity data. Data is protected from the loss of a single drive. Guarding is sometimes preferred over mirroring because it is more cost-effective in systems with a very high storage capacity.
I/O Abbreviation for input/output. The keyboard and a printer, for example, are I/O devices. In general, I/O activity can be differentiated from computational activity. For example, when a program sends a document to the printer, it is engaging in I/O activity; when the program sorts a list of terms, it is engaging in computational activity. ID Abbreviation for identification. interlacing A technique for increasing video resolution by only updating alternate horizontal lines on the screen.
Kbps Abbreviation for kilobit(s) per second. key combination A command requiring that you press multiple keys at the same time. For example, you can reboot your computer by pressing the key combination. kg Abbreviation for kilogram(s), 1000 grams. kHz Abbreviation for kilohertz, 1000 hertz. L LAN Acronym for local area network. A LAN system is usually confined to the same building or a few nearby buildings, with all equipment linked by wiring dedicated specifically to the LAN.
mAh Abbreviation for milliampere-hour(s). math coprocessor See coprocessor. MB Abbreviation for megabyte(s). The term megabyte means 1,048,576 bytes; however, when referring to hard-disk drive storage, the term is often rounded to mean 1,000,000 bytes. MBR Abbreviation for master boot record. MDA Abbreviation for monochrome display adapter. memory A computer can contain several different forms of memory, such as RAM, ROM, and video memory.
MS-DOS Abbreviation for Microsoft Disk Operating System. MTBF Abbreviation for mean time between failures. multifrequency monitor A monitor that supports several video standards. A multifrequency monitor can adjust to the frequency range of the signal from a variety of video adapters. mV Abbreviation for millivolt(s). N NIC Acronym for network interface controller. NiCad Acronym for nickel cadmium. NiMH Abbreviation for nickel-metal hydride. NLM Acronym for NetWare® Loadable Module.
parallel port An I/O port used most often to connect a parallel printer to your computer. You can usually identify a parallel port on your computer by its 25-hole connector. parameter A value or option that you specify to a program. A parameter is sometimes called a switch or an argument. partition You can divide a hard-disk drive into multiple physical sections called partitions with the fdisk command. Each partition can contain multiple logical drives.
The set of diskettes from which you can perform a complete installation of an application program. When you reconfigure a program, you often need its program diskette set.
RAID 10 is a mirroring technique in which data is duplicated across two identical RAID 0 arrays or hard-disk drives. All data on a physical drive in one array is duplicated, or mirrored, on a drive in the second array. Mirroring offers complete redundancy of data for greater data security. See also mirroring, RAID 1, and striping. RAM Acronym for random-access memory. The computer's primary temporary storage area for program instructions and data.
SDMS Abbreviation for SCSI device management system. SDRAM Abbreviation for synchronous dynamic random-access memory. SDS Abbreviation for scalable disk system. SEC Abbreviation for single-edge contact. sec Abbreviation for second(s). sector The fundamental unit of data access for a hard-disk drive. For PC-compatible systems, a sector is usually 512 bytes. See also block and block size. serial port An I/O port used most often to connect a modem or a mouse to your computer.
switch See parameter. sync negotiation Sync negotiation is a SCSI feature that allows the host adapter and its attached SCSI devices to transfer data in synchronous mode. Synchronous data transfer is faster than asynchronous data transfer. syntax The rules that dictate how you must type a command or instruction so that the computer will understand it.
Abbreviation for thin film transistor. A flat-panel display for notebook computers where each pixel is controlled by one to four transistors. tpi Abbreviation for tracks per inch. TSR Abbreviation for terminate-and-stay-resident. A TSR program runs "in the background." Most TSR programs implement a predefined key combination (sometimes referred to as a "hot key") that allows you to activate the TSR program's interface while running another MS-DOS program.
Abbreviation for volt(s) direct current. VDE Abbreviation for Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker. VESA Acronym for Video Electronics Standards Association. VGA Abbreviation for video graphics array. VGA and SVGA are video standards for video adapters with greater resolution and color display capabilities than EGA and CGA, the previous standards. To display a program at a specific resolution, you must install the appropriate video drivers and your monitor must support the resolution.
The most common way that virus programs move from one system to another is via "infected" diskettes, from which they copy themselves to the hard-disk drive. To guard against virus programs, you should do the following: l Periodically run a virus-checking utility on your computer's hard-disk drive. l Always run a virus-checking utility on any diskettes (including commercially sold software) before using them. VL-Bus™ An abbreviation for VESA local bus.
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Back to Contents Page Introduction: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Connecting External Devices System Features Preventing Unauthorized Access Inside the Computer Supported Operating Systems Getting Help Front Panel Overview The Dell PowerEdge 4400, which has an Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ microprocessor, is a feature-rich, enterprise class server that offers the highest performance, availability, scalability, manageability, and investment protection features.
l A single, 1.44-MB 3.5-inch diskette drive. l A 17/40x SCSI CD-ROM drive. The system board includes the following integrated features: l l l l l l l Seven PCI slots located on the system board. PCI slots 1 through 4 are hot-pluggable. PCI slots 1 and 2 are 64-bit, 66-MHz PCI slots; PCI slots 3 and 4 are 64-bit, 33-MHz PCI slots; PCI slots 5 and 6 are 64-bit, 33-MHz slots.
Front Panel The following controls and indicators are behind the external drive door on the computer's front panel (see Figure 1). Figure 1. Front-Panel Features 1 Power indicator 2 Power button 3 Hard-disk drive keylock 4 Drive access indicators 5 Fan/thermal status indicator 6 Power supply status indicator 7 CD-ROM drive 8 Diskette drive l l The power button on the front panel controls the AC power input to the system's power supply.
Connecting External Devices You can connect various external devices, such as a mouse and printer, to the I/O ports and connectors on the computer’s back panel (see Figure 3). Figure 3. Back-Panel Features 1 Mouse connector 2 Keyboard connector 3 Power supplies (2 standard, 3 optional.
Back to Contents Page I/O Ports and Connectors: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Video Connector I/O Ports and Connectors USB Connectors Serial and Parallel Ports Integrated Network Interface Controller Connector Keyboard and Mouse Connectors Overview This section provides specific information about the input/output (I/O) ports and connectors on the back panel of the computer.
The computer system has an autoconfiguration capability for the serial ports. This feature lets you add an expansion card containing a serial port that has the same designation as one of the integrated ports, without having to reconfigure the card. When the computer detects the duplicate serial port on the expansion card, it remaps (reassigns) the integrated port to the next available port designation.
9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18-25 PD7 ACK# BUSY PE SLCT AFD# ERR# INIT# SLIN# GND I/O I I I I O I O O N/A Printer data bit 7 Acknowledge Busy Paper end Select Automatic feed Error Initialize printer Select in Signal ground Keyboard and Mouse Connectors The system uses a Personal System/2 (PS/2)-style keyboard and supports a PS/2-compatible mouse. Cables from both devices attach to 6-pin, miniature Deutsche Industrie Norm (DIN) connectors on the back panel of your computer.
Pin 1 2 3 4 5-8, 10 9 11 12 13 14 15 Shell Signal RED GREEN BLUE NC GND VCC NC DDC data out HSYNC VSYNC DDC clock out N/A I/O O O O N/A N/A N/A N/A O O O O N/A Definition Red video Green video Blue video No connection Signal ground Vcc No connection Monitor detect data Horizontal synchronization Vertical synchronization Monitor detect clock Chassis ground USB Connectors Your system contains two Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors for attaching USB-compliant devices.
Back to Contents Page Maintaining the System: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Environmental Factors Data Preservation Power Protection Devices Cleaning System Components Overview Proper use of preventive maintenance procedures can keep the system in top operating condition and minimize the need for costly, timeconsuming service procedures. This file contains maintenance procedures that you should perform regularly.
To avoid these conditions, Dell recommends keeping your work environment clean to reduce the amount of dust and dirt around the system, thereby reducing the amount of contaminants drawn into the system by the power supply fan. In particular, you should keep the exterior of your system and monitor clean, and you should use a commercially available diskette-drive head-cleaning kit to remove contaminants inside your diskette drives.
Adequate ventilation is particularly important at high altitudes. System performance may not be optimum when the system is operating at high temperatures as well as high altitudes. l Make sure that all slots and openings on the system remain unobstructed, especially the fan vent on the back of the system. l Clean the system at regular intervals to avoid any buildup of dust and debris, which can cause a system to overheat.
system. l Keep components in their antistatic packaging until they are installed. l Avoid wearing clothing made of wool or synthetic materials. Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency Interference Electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency interference (RFI) from a system can adversely affect devices such as radio and television (TV) receivers operating near the system. Radio frequencies emanating from a system can also interfere with cordless and low-power telephones.
l l Use one of the power protection devices described in the following section, "Power Protection Devices." Place the system on a dedicated power circuit (rather than sharing a circuit with other heavy electrical equipment).
Back to Contents Page Preface: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide About This Guide Other Documents You May Need Warranty and Return Policy Information Typographical Conventions About This Guide This guide is intended for anyone who uses the Dell PowerEdge 4400 computer systems. The guide can be used by both first-time and experienced computer users who want to learn about the features and operation of the systems or who want to upgrade their computers.
technical changes to the system or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians. l Documentation updates are sometimes included with the system to describe changes to the system or software. Always read these updates before consulting any other documentation because the updates often contain information that supersedes the information in the other documents.
Back to Contents Page Regulatory Notices: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview MOC Notice (South Korea Only) FCC Notices (U.S.
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: l This device may not cause harmful interference. l This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Class A This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
RF INTERFERENCE WARNING: This is a Class A product. In a domestic environment this product may cause radio frequency (RF) interference, in which case the user may be required to take adequate measures. This Dell device is classified for use in a typical Class B domestic environment. A "Declaration of Conformity" in accordance with the preceding directives and standards has been made and is on file at Dell Products Europe BV, Limerick, Ireland.
This is a Class B product based on the standard of the Voluntary Control Council for Interference (VCCI) for information technology equipment. If this equipment is used near a radio or television receiver in a domestic environment, it may cause radio interference. Install and use the equipment according to the instruction manual. Figure 2.
A protection mark "B" confirms that the equipment is in compliance with the protection usage requirements of standards PN-93/T-42107 and PNEN55022:1996. NOM Information (Mexico Only) The following information is provided on the device(s) described in this document in compliance with the requirements of the official Mexican standards (NOM): Exporter: Importer: Ship to: Supply voltage: Frequency: Input current rating: Dell Computer Corporation One Dell Way Round Rock, TX 78682 Dell Computer de México, S.
Importador: Embarcar a: Tensión alimentación: Frecuencia: Consumo de corriente: Dell Computer de México, S.A. de C.V. Rio Lerma No. 302 - 4° Piso Col. Cuauhtemoc 16500 México, D.F. Dell Computer de México, S.A. de C.V. al Cuidado de Kuehne & Nagel de México S. de R.I. Avenida Soles No. 55 Col. Peñon de los Baños 15520 México, D.F. 115/230 VAC 60/50 Hz 6.0/3.
Back to Contents Page Safety Instructions: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview When Working Inside Your Computer Notes, Notices, Cautions, and Warnings Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge Safety Caution and Warnings Ergonomic Computing Habits Additional Safety Precautions Overview Use the following safety guidelines to ensure your own personal safety and to help protect your computer or storage system from potential damage.
Additional Safety Precautions To reduce the risk of bodily injury, electrical shock, fire, and damage to the equipment, observe the following precautions. General Precautions Observe the following general precautions for using and working with your system: l l l l l Observe and follow service markings. Do not service any Dell product except as explained in your Dell system documentation.
l l l l l Position cables and power cords carefully; route cables and the power cord and plug so that they cannot be stepped on or tripped over. Be sure that nothing rests on your system components’ cables or power cord. Do not modify power cables or plugs. Consult a licensed electrician or your power company for site modifications. Always follow your local/national wiring rules.
l Ensure that proper airflow is provided to components in the rack. l Do not step on or stand on any system/component when servicing other systems/components in a rack. Precautions for Products With Modems, Telecommunications, or Local Area Network Options Observe the following guidelines when working with options: l Do not connect or use a modem or telephone during a lightning storm. There may be a risk of electrical shock from lightning.
accumulated. You can also take the following steps to prevent damage from electrostatic discharge (ESD): l When unpacking a static-sensitive component from its shipping carton, do not remove the component from the antistatic packing material until you are ready to install the component in your computer. Just before unwrapping the antistatic packaging, be sure to discharge static electricity from your body. l When transporting a sensitive component, first place it in an antistatic container or packaging.
1 Monitor screen at or below eye level 2 Wrists relaxed and flat 3 Arms at desk level 4 Feet flat on the floor 5 Monitor and keyboard positioned directly in front of user Back to Contents Page
Back to Contents Page Installing and Configuring SCSI Drivers: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Installation for Novell NetWare 5.0 Installing SCSI Drivers for an Optional, Integrated RAID Controller in Windows NT 4.0 The SCSISelect Utility Using SCSI Devices Driver Installation for Windows NT 4.0 Troubleshooting for Novell NetWare Troubleshooting for Windows NT Installation for Novell NetWare 4.
Use the editor included with your operating system to view or print the readme.txt file or any other readme file. The SCSISelect Utility The BIOS for the integrated Adaptec AIC-7899 and AIC-7880 SCSI controllers includes the menu-driven SCSISelect configuration utility, which allows you to change SCSI controller settings without opening the computer. SCSISelect also contains SCSI disk utilities that let you low-level format or verify the disk media of your SCSI hard-disk drives.
SCSI Parity Checking Enabled Host Adapter SCSI Termination Automatic Boot Device Options: Boot Target ID 0 Boot LUN Number 0 SCSI Device/Configuration: Initiate Sync Negotiation Yes (Enabled) Maximum Sync Transfer Rate 160 MB/sec Enable Disconnection Yes (Enabled) Initiate Wide Negotiation Yes (Enabled) Send Start Unit Command Yes (Enabled) BIOS Multiple LUN Support No (Enabled) Include in BIOS Scan Yes (Enabled) Advanced Host Adapter: Host Adapter BIOS Enabled Support Removable Disk
mode. Synchronous data transfer is faster than asynchronous data transfer. The host adapter always responds to synchronous negotiation if the SCSI device initiates it. If neither the host adapter nor the SCSI device initiates synchronous negotiation, data is transferred asynchronously. Normally, you should leave the Initiate Sync Negotiation setting enabled, because most SCSI devices support synchronous negotiation and because it allows for faster data transfer.
l l l l l All Disks — All removable-media drives supported by the BIOS are treated as hard-disk drives. Disabled — No removable-media drives are treated as hard-disk drives. In this situation, software drivers are needed because the drives are not controlled by the BIOS. Plug and Play SCAM Support — Provides automatic configuration of SCSI devices in operating systems that support Plug and Play. Dell recommends that you leave this option set to Disabled.
Exiting SCSISelect To exit SCSISelect, press until a message prompts you to exit. (If you changed any 78xx series host adapter settings, you are prompted to save the changes before you exit.) At the prompt, select Yes to exit, and then press any key to reboot the computer. Any changes that you made in SCSISelect take effect after the computer boots. (You can select No at the prompt if you are not ready to exit SCSISelect.) Driver Installation for Windows NT 4.
These files are located in the \scsi directory on the Windows NT 4.0 Driver diskette. The driver is copied from the diskette to your system. 10. Click Yes when prompted to restart the system and remove the diskette from drive A. After the system reboots, the new driver is active. Some drive letter assignments may have changed from the previous configuration. If you need additional assistance, see "Troubleshooting for Windows NT." Installation for Novell NetWare 4.
12. Select the adpu160.ham driver and press . The system prompts you for a slot number for the device. NOTE: Specific help text for each driver appears in the middle of the screen as you scroll down the list. The Loaded Drivers window below the list of available drivers displays the names of drivers that are loaded and operational. For a new installation, this list is initially empty. For a selective installation, the list shows the drivers already running. 13.
4. At the Driver Options menu, highlight Configure disk and storage device drivers and press . 5. At the Additional Driver Actions menu, highlight Load an additional driver and press . The software scans the system to determine what drivers are already installed. 6. When the Select a driver menu appears, insert the NetWare 5.0 SCSI driver diskette into the diskette drive and press to install an unlisted driver. 7. Read the instructions on the screen and press to continue. 8.
1. Load monitor.nlm to display the various options. 2. Select Disk Information. All system hard-disk drives appear. 3. Select the removable-media device. Drive status options appear as shown in Table 3. Table 3.
NOTE: Dell recommends using only Dell-tested drives. Adaptec's adpu160.ham driver module is flexible enough to allow you to connect SCSI drives that are tested and approved for NetWare as well as standard SCSI drives to a single host adapter. The driver registers each hard-disk drive accordingly. Drive registration is a user-transparent process; no user interaction is required.
l 100-299 — Host-adapter specific l 300-999 — Reserved Specific error codes, such as those in the following subsections, appear only if you have installed the host adapters and drivers that generate them. Non-Host-Adapter Specific Error Codes The following error codes alert you to error conditions caused by factors not related to the host adapter: 000 Failed ParseDriverParameters call A call to NetWare's ParseDriverParameters routine has failed for some unknown reason.
Back to Contents Page Using the System Setup Program: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Overview Using the System Password Feature Entering the System Setup Program Using the Setup Password Feature System Setup Screens Disabling a Forgotten Password System Setup Options Responding to Error Messages Overview Each time you turn on your computer system, the system compares the hardware installed in the system to the hardware listed in the system configuration information stored in nonvolatile
l Configuration options — The box on the left half of both screens lists the options that define the installed hardware in your computer. Fields beside the options contain settings or values; those that appear bright on the screen can be changed. Settings or values that you cannot change because they are determined by the system appear less bright.
If your system has RAID on motherboard (ROMB), Page 2 of the setup screen is as follows:
System Setup Options The following subsections explain in detail each of the options on the System Setup screens. Time Time resets the time on the computer's internal clock. Time is kept in a 24-hour format (hours:minutes:seconds). To change the time, press the right-arrow key to increase the number in the highlighted field or press the left-arrow key to decrease the number. If you prefer, you can type numbers in each of the appropriate fields. Date Date resets the date on the computer's internal calendar.
Speaker Speaker determines whether the integrated speaker is On (the default) or Off. A change to this option takes effect immediately (rebooting the system is not required). Num Lock Num Lock determines whether your system boots with the Num Lock mode activated on 101- or 102-key keyboards (it does not apply to 84-key keyboards). When Num Lock mode is activated, the rightmost bank of keys on your keyboard provides the mathematical and numeric functions shown at the tops of the keys.
(drive 0). If the hard-disk drive is not bootable, the system tries to boot from the Plug and Play network adapters in the order found. Hard Disk Only Selecting Hard Disk Only causes the system to attempt to boot first from the hard-disk drive and then from the Plug and Play network adapters in the order found. Device List, Ctrl–> Selecting Device List, Ctrl–> causes the system to attempt to boot from devices in the list shown on the Device List screen of the System Setup program.
l COM1 (input/output [I/O] address 3F8h), which shares IRQ4 with COM3, is remapped to COM3 (I/O address 3E8h). l COM2 (I/O address 2F8h), which shares IRQ3 with COM4, is remapped to COM4 (I/O address 2E8h). NOTE: When two COM ports share an IRQ setting, you can use either port as necessary, but you may not be able to use them both at the same time. If the second port (COM3 or COM4) is also in use, the integrated port is turned off.
l The processor line displays the microprocessor type and speed. l Level 2 Cache displays the size of the cache (256 kilobytes [KB]). Advanced is displayed for a microprocessor with enhanced cache. l l l System Memory indicates the entire amount of installed memory detected in your system, except for memory on Expanded Memory Specification (EMS) expansion cards. After adding memory, check this option to confirm that the new memory is installed correctly and is recognized by the system.
The password setting changes to Enabled. Your system password is now set; you can exit the System Setup program and begin using your system. Note, however, that password protection does not take effect until you reboot the system by turning the system off and then on again.
password have full use of the System Setup program. To change an existing setup password, you must know the setup password (see "Deleting or Changing an Existing Setup Password"). If you assign and later forget a setup password, you cannot operate your system or change settings in the System Setup program until a trained service technician opens the computer chassis, changes the password jumper setting to disable the passwords, and erases the existing passwords.
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Back to Contents Page Technical Specifications: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Microprocessor Video Expansion Bus Power Memory Physical Drives Environmental Ports Microprocessor Microprocessor types Dual Intel® Pentium® III Xeon™ microprocessors with a minimum internal operating frequency of 600 MHz Front side bus Internal cache Math coprocessor 133 MHz internal to microprocessor internal to microprocessor Expansion Bus Bus type Expansion slots PCI bus seven full-length dedicated
Internally accessible: Ultra 160/m SCSI controller two 68-pin connectors for internal or external SCSI drives Ultra/Narrow SCSI controller 50-pin connector for internal CD-ROM or optional tape backup units Diskette drive 34-pin connector for internal 3.
Storage (non-operational) Altitude: Operating Storage (one pulse on each side of the system) of 41 G for up to 2 ms six consecutively executed shock pulses in the positive and negative x, y, and z axes (one pulse on each side of the system) of 71 G for 2 ms –16 to 3048 m (–50 to 10,000 ft) –16 to 10,600 m (–50 to 35,000 ft) NOTE: For the full name of an abbreviation or acronym used in this table, see the "Glossary.
Back to Contents Page Warranty, Return Policy, and Year 2000 Statement of Compliance: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4400 Systems User's Guide Limited Three-Year Warranty (U.S. Only) "Total Satisfaction" Return Policy (U.S. and Canada Only) Limited Three-Year Warranty (Canada Only) Year 2000 Statement of Compliance for Dell-Branded Hardware Products Limited Three-Year Warranty (U.S.
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Software Dell specifically excludes all non-Dell-developed software from this compliance statement. All software run on Dell-branded hardware products should be independently verified by customers to be year 2000-compliant. The factory-installed software on this system is the current version provided by the software manufacturer and validated by Dell for installation. Dell recommends checking each software manufacturer's year 2000 Web site for updates to their products.