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
Chapter 1: Dell PowerEdge R430 system overview.........................................................................8
Supported configurations for the PowerEdge R430 system....................................................................................8
Front panel ...........................................................................................................................................................................9
Front panel features of a 4 x 3.5-inch hard drive system................................................................................... 9
Front panel features of the 4 x 3.5-inch cabled hard drive system................................................................. 11
Front panel features of the 8 x 2.5 inch hard drives or SSDs system............................................................ 12
Front panel features of the 10 x 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs system..........................................................14
LCD panel.......................................................................................................................................................................15
Back panel features........................................................................................................................................................... 17
Redundant PSU back panel features ......................................................................................................................17
Cabled PSU back panel features .............................................................................................................................19
Diagnostic indicators......................................................................................................................................................... 21
Diagnostic indicators on the front panel.................................................................................................................21
Hard drive indicator codes........................................................................................................................................ 22
uSATA SSD indicator codes......................................................................................................................................23
NIC indicator codes.....................................................................................................................................................24
Internal dual SD module indicator codes................................................................................................................24
iDRAC Direct LED indicator codes.......................................................................................................................... 25
Indicator codes for redundant power supply unit................................................................................................26
Non-redundant cabled power supply unit indicator codes................................................................................27
Locating service tag of your system............................................................................................................................ 28
Chapter 2: Documentation resources...........................................................................................29
Chapter 3: Technical specifications............................................................................................. 32
Chassis dimensions........................................................................................................................................................... 32
Chassis weight................................................................................................................................................................... 33
Processor specifications..................................................................................................................................................33
PSU specifications............................................................................................................................................................ 33
System battery specifications........................................................................................................................................33
Expansion bus specifications.......................................................................................................................................... 33
Memory specifications..................................................................................................................................................... 34
Drive specifications...........................................................................................................................................................34
Hard drives....................................................................................................................................................................34
Optical drive..................................................................................................................................................................34
Ports and connectors specifications............................................................................................................................ 35
USB ports...................................................................................................................................................................... 35
NIC ports....................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Serial connector...........................................................................................................................................................35
VGA ports......................................................................................................................................................................35
Internal Dual SD Module............................................................................................................................................ 35
Video specifications..........................................................................................................................................................35
Environmental specifications..........................................................................................................................................36
Particulate and gaseous contamination specifications ......................................................................................37
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