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
Menu Item Description
NOTE: Selecting Only Back Ports On and All Ports Off will disable the USB management port and
also restrict access to iDRAC features.
Internal USB Port Enables or disables the internal USB port. By default, the option is set to Enabled.
Integrated
Network Card 1
Enables or disables the integrated network card.
I/OAT DMA
Engine
Enables or disables the I/OAT option. Enable only if the hardware and software support the feature.
Embedded Video
Controller
Enables or disables the Current state of Embedded Video Controller . By default the option Disabled.
Current State of Embedded Video Controller is a read only field, indicating the current state for the
Embedded Video Controller. If the Embedded Video Controller is the only display capability in the system
(that is, no add-in graphics card is installed), then the Embedded Video Controller is automatically used as
the primary display even if the Embedded Video Controller setting is Disabled.
NOTE: 1. If the embedded video controller is DISABLED in BIOS and if you launch the Virtual
Console from the iDRAC, the Virtual Console Viewer is blank.
NOTE: 2. All monitors must be plugged into the GPU at power on, and must remain plugged into the
GPU until the system is booted into the operating system with the driver loaded. Once the system is
booted into the operating system the monitor can be unplugged, and then hot plugged. The monitor
will not be hot pluggable unless this process is followed.
● DP cable can be hot plugged
● mDP cable can be hot plugged
● DVI cable can be hot plugged
● DP to VGA dongle cable cannot be hot plugged
Current State of
Embedded Video
Controller
Displays the current state of the Embedded Video Controller. Current State of Embedded Video
Controller is a read only field, indicating the current state for the Embedded Video Controller
SR-IOV Global
Enable
Enables or disables the BIOS configuration of Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) devices. By default,
the SR-IOV Global Enable option is set to Disabled.
OS Watchdog
Timer
If your system stops responding, this watchdog timer aids in the recovery of your operating system. When
this field is set to Enabled, the operating system is allowed to initialize the timer. When the option is set
to Disabled (the default), the timer will have no effect on the system.
Memory Mapped
I/O above 4GB
Enables or disables the support for PCIe devices that require large amounts of memory. By default, the
option is set to Enabled.
Slot Disablement Enables or disables the available PCIe slots on your system. The Slot Disablement feature controls
the configuration of PCIe cards installed in the specified slot. Slot disablement must be used only when
the installed peripheral card is preventing booting into the operating system or causing delays in system
startup. If the slot is disabled, both the Option ROM and UEFI driver are disabled.
This field controls the configuration of the card installed in the slot. You can set one of the following
options for each of the .....(Press F1 for more information)
1. Slot 1 Boot Driver
● Enabled (default)
● Disabled
2. Slot 2 Boot Driver
● Enabled (default)
● Disabled
3. Slot 3 Boot Driver
● Enabled (default)
● Disabled
4. Slot 4 Boot Driver
● Enabled (default)
● Disabled
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