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
Boot Settings screen details
You can use the Boot Settings screen to set the Boot mode to either BIOS or UEFI. It also allows you to specify the boot
order.
About this task
You can view the Boot Settings screen by clicking System Setup Main Menu > System BIOS > Boot Settings.
The Boot Settings screen details are explained as follows:
Menu Item Description
Boot Mode Enables you to set the boot mode of the system.
CAUTION: Switching the boot mode may prevent the system from booting if the operating
system is not installed in the same boot mode.
NOTE: Setting this field to UEFI disables BIOS Boot Settings menu. Setting this field to BIOS
disables the UEFI Boot Settings menu.
If the operating system supports UEFI, you can set this option to UEFI. Setting this field to BIOS allows
compatibility with non-UEFI operating systems. By default, the Boot Mode option is set to BIOS.
Boot Sequence
Retry
Enables or disables the boot sequence retry feature. If this field is enabled and the system fails to boot,
the system reattempts the boot sequence after 30 seconds. By default, the Boot Sequence Retry
option is set to Enabled.
Hard Disk
Failover
Specifies which devices in the Hard-Disk Drive Sequence are attempted in the boot sequence. When
the option is Disabled, only the first hard disk device in the list is attempted to boot. When set to
Enabled, all hard disk devices are attempted in order, as listed in the Hard-Disk Drive Sequence. This
option is not enabled for UEFI Boot Mode.
Boot Options
Settings
Configures the boot sequence and the boot devices.
Integrated NIC 1 Port 1 Partition 1
Boot Sequence
Integrated NIC 1 Port 1 Partition 1
IBA XE Slot 0100 v2308
Embedded SATA Port Optical Drive I
PLDS DVD+/-RW DS-8ABSH Hard Drive C
Hard-Disk Drive
Sequence
This field specifies the order in which hard-disk drives will be configured in the system. The first hard
drive in the system will be the bootable C:....(Press F1 for more information) Embedded SATA Port Disk A:
ST500UM001-1EK162
Integrated Devices screen details
You can use the Integrated Devices screen to view and configure the settings of all integrated devices including the video
controller, integrated RAID controller, and the USB ports.
About this task
You can view the Integrated Devices screen by clicking System Setup Main Menu > System BIOS > Integrated Devices.
The Integrated Devices screen details are explained below.
Menu Item
Description
USB 3.0 Setting Enables or disables the USB 3.0 support. Enable this option only if your operating system supports USB
3.0. If you disable this option, devices operate at USB 2.0 speed. USB 3.0 is set to Auto by default
User Accessible
USB Ports
Enables or disables the USB ports. Selecting Only Back Ports On disables the front USB ports, selecting
All Ports Off disables all USB ports. The USB keyboard and mouse operates during boot process in
certain operating systems. After the boot process is complete, the USB keyboard and mouse do not work
if the ports are disabled.
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