Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell PowerEdge R930 Owner's Manual
- Contents
- About the PowerEdge R930
- 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
- System memory
- Memory riser
- Memory riser and fan cage
- Cooling fans
- Cable management tray
- Hard drives
- Optical drive (optional)
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing the left or right expansion card riser blank
- Installing the left or right expansion card riser blank
- Removing the left or right expansion card riser
- Installing the left or right expansion card riser
- Removing an expansion card from expansion card risers
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion card risers
- Network Daughter Card riser
- Network daughter card
- Chassis intrusion switch
- SD vFlash card (optional)
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Integrated storage controller card
- Processors and heat sinks
- Power supply units
- Power distribution board
- System battery
- Hard drive backplane
- SAS expander daughter card
- Control panel
- System board
- Trusted Platform Module
- 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
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Getting help
Front panel
The front panel provides access to the features available on the front of the server, such as the power button, NMI button,
system identification tag, system identification button, and USB and VGA ports. The diagnostic LEDs or the LCD panel is
prominently located on the front panel. The hot swappable hard drives are accessible from the front panel.
Front panel features of the PowerEdge R930 system
Figure 2. Front panel features of the PowerEdge R930 system
1.
vFlash media card slot 2. Power button
3. NMI button 4. System identification button
5. Video connector 6. LCD menu buttons
7. USB port (2) 8. Information tag
9. Hard drives 10. Rack ears
11. Slide lock 12. Optical drive
Table 1. Front panel features of the PowerEdge R930 system.
Item Indicator, Button, or
Connector
Icon Description
1 vFlash media card slot
The SD vFlash media card slot provides persistent on-demand
local storage and a custom deployment environment that
enables automation of system configuration, scripts, and
imaging.
2
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.
3 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.
NOTE: Use the NMI button only if directed to do so by
qualified support personnel or by the operating system
documentation.
10 About the PowerEdge R930