Owners Manual

Table 2. Front panel features of the 4 x 3.5-inch cabled hard drive system (continued)
Item Indicator, Button, or
Connector
Icon Description
7 Information tag
The Information tag is a slide-out label panel that contains
system information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address,
and so on. If you have opted for the secure default access to
iDRAC, the Information tag also contains the iDRAC secure
default password.
8 Hard drives Up to 4 x 3.5 inch cabled hard drives.
Enable you to install drives that are supported on your system.
For more information about drives, see the Technical
specifications section.
9 Optical drive (optional) One optional slim SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.
Enables you to retrieve and store data on optical discs such as
compact discs (CD) and digital versatile discs (DVD). For
more information, see the Technical specifications section.
Front panel features of the 8 x 2.5 inch hard drives or SSDs system
Figure 4. Front panel features of a 8 x 2.5 inch hard drives or SSDs system
1.
Power button 2. NMI button
3. System identification button 4. USB management port or iDRAC managed USB port
5. USB port 6. Optical drive
7. LCD menu buttons 8. Information tag
9. LCD panel 10. Video connector
11. Hard drives
Table 3. Front panel features of a 8 x 2.5 inch hard drives or SSDs system
Item Indicator, Button, or
Connector
Icon Description
1 Power button
Indicates if the system is powered on or off. Press the power
button to manually power on or off the system.
NOTE: Press the power button to gracefully shut down an
ACPI-compliant operating system.
2 NMI button
Press the Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) button to
troubleshoot software application and device driver errors
when running certain operating systems. Use the end of a
paper clip to press the NMI button.
12 Dell PowerEdge R430 system overview