Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Dell Precision Rack 7910 Owner's Manual
- Contents
- Working on your computer
- LCD panel features
- Hard drive indicator codes
- Installing and removing system components
- Safety instructions
- Before working inside your system
- After working inside your system
- Recommended tools
- System Overview
- Front bezel (optional)
- Removing the system cover
- Installing the system cover
- Inside the system
- Cooling shroud
- System memory
- General memory module installation guidelines
- Sample memory configurations
- Removing memory modules
- Installing memory modules
- Hard drives
- Removing a 2.5 inch hard-drive blank
- Installing a 2.5 inch hard-drive blank
- Removing Hard Drive
- Installing Hard Drive
- Removing a hard drive from a hard-drive carrier
- Installing a hard drive into a hard-drive carrier
- Optical drive (optional)
- Cooling fans
- Removing a cooling fan
- Installing a cooling fan
- Removing the cooling-fan assembly
- Installing the cooling-fan assembly
- Internal USB memory key (optional)
- Replacing the internal USB key
- PCIe card holder
- Cable retention bracket
- Expansion cards and expansion card risers
- Expansion card installation guidelines
- Removing an expansion card from expansion-card riser 2 or 3
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion-card riser 2 or 3
- Removing an expansion card from the expansion-card riser 1
- Installing an expansion card into the expansion-card riser 1
- Removing the riser 1 blank
- Installing the riser 1 blank
- Removing expansion-card risers
- Installing expansion-card risers
- GPU card installation guidelines
- Installing a GPU card
- Removing a GPU card
- SD vFlash media card (optional)
- Internal dual SD module (optional)
- Integrated storage controller card
- Network daughter card
- Heat sink and processor
- Power supply units
- Hot spare feature
- Removing the power supply unit blank
- Installing the power supply unit blank
- Removing an AC power supply unit
- Installing an AC power supply unit
- System battery
- Hard-drive backplane
- Removing the hard-drive backplane
- Installing the hard-drive backplane
- Control panel assembly
- System board
- Troubleshooting your system
- Troubleshooting system startup failure
- Troubleshooting external connections
- Troubleshooting the video subsystem
- Troubleshooting a USB device
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)
- Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (laptop connection)
- Troubleshooting a serial I/O 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 an SD card
- Troubleshooting an optical drive
- Troubleshooting a hard drive
- Troubleshooting a storage controller
- Troubleshooting expansion cards
- Troubleshooting processors
- Error Messages
- System messages
- Using system diagnostics
- Jumpers and connectors
- Specifications
- System Setup
- Boot Menu
- Timing Key Sequences
- Dell Diagnostics
- About system setup
- Entering System Setup
- System Setup Main Menu
- System BIOS screen
- System Information screen details
- Memory Settings screen details
- Processor Settings screen details
- SATA Settings screen details
- Boot Settings screen details
- Integrated Devices screen details
- Serial Communication screen details
- System Profile Settings screen details
- System Security settings screen details
- Miscellaneous Settings screen details
- NIC indicator codes
- Power indicator codes
- Contacting Dell
Table 13. Video (continued)
Video Specification
Video memory 16 MB
Table 14. Network
Network Specification
Integrated Intel 82579 and Intel 82574 Ethernet controllers
Table 15. Expansion Bus
Expansion Bus Specification
Bus type: PCI Express Generation 3
Bus speed: PCI: 133 MB/s
PCI Express:
● PCIe 3.0 x16 slots bidirectional speed - 16 GB/s
● PCIe 3.0 x8-slots bidirectional speed - 8 GB/s
● PCIe 3.0 x4 slots bidirectional speed - 4 GB/s
● PCIe 2.0 x4-slots bidirectional speed - 2 GB/s
PCI 2.3 (32-bit, 33MHz) : 133MB/s
SAS: 3 Gbps and 6 Gbps
SATA: 1.5 Gbps, 3 Gbps, and 6 Gbps
USB 3.0: 480 Mbps high speed, 12 Mbps full speed, 1.2 Mbps
low speed
Table 16. Card Slots
Card Slots Specification
Riser 1
Slot 1 One half-height, low-profile x8 link
Slot 2 One half-height, low-profile x8 link
Slot 3 One half-height, low-profile x8 link
Riser 2
Slot 4 One full-height, full-length x16 link
NOTE: To use slots 1 through 4, both the processors
must be installed.
Slot 5 One full-height, full-length x8 link
Riser 3 (default)
Slot 6 One full-height, full-length x8 link
Slot 7 One full-height, full-length x8 link
Riser 3 (alternate for GPU)
Slot 6 One full-height, full-length x16 link
Table 17. Drives
Drives Specification
Hard drives
Eight–hard-drive systems Up to eight 2.5 inch, internal, HHD/SSD, or Nearline SAS
hard drives in hard-drive slots 0 through 7.
Internally accessible none
100 Specifications