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
Installing the hard-drive backplane .............................................................................................................................. 74
Control panel assembly.................................................................................................................................................... 75
Removing the control panel ..................................................................................................................................... 75
Installing the control panel ....................................................................................................................................... 77
System board......................................................................................................................................................................78
Removing the system board..................................................................................................................................... 78
Installing the system board....................................................................................................................................... 80
Entering the system service tag by using System Setup................................................................................... 81
Restoring the Service Tag by using the Easy Restore feature......................................................................... 81
Updating the BIOS version........................................................................................................................................ 81
Re-enabling the TPM for TXT users.......................................................................................................................82
Chapter 5: Troubleshooting your system..................................................................................... 83
Troubleshooting system startup failure....................................................................................................................... 83
Troubleshooting external connections......................................................................................................................... 83
Troubleshooting the video subsystem......................................................................................................................... 83
Troubleshooting a USB device....................................................................................................................................... 83
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)...................................................................................... 84
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (laptop connection)................................................................................................. 84
Troubleshooting a serial I/O device.............................................................................................................................. 84
Troubleshooting a NIC..................................................................................................................................................... 85
Troubleshooting a wet system.......................................................................................................................................85
Troubleshooting a damaged system............................................................................................................................. 86
Troubleshooting the system battery............................................................................................................................ 86
Troubleshooting power supply units............................................................................................................................. 87
Power source problems..............................................................................................................................................87
Power supply unit problems...................................................................................................................................... 87
Troubleshooting cooling problems.................................................................................................................................87
Troubleshooting cooling fans......................................................................................................................................... 88
Troubleshooting system memory.................................................................................................................................. 88
Troubleshooting an internal USB key........................................................................................................................... 89
Troubleshooting an SD card........................................................................................................................................... 89
Troubleshooting an optical drive................................................................................................................................... 90
Troubleshooting a hard drive..........................................................................................................................................90
Troubleshooting a storage controller............................................................................................................................ 91
Troubleshooting expansion cards...................................................................................................................................91
Troubleshooting processors........................................................................................................................................... 92
Error Messages..................................................................................................................................................................92
System messages..............................................................................................................................................................93
Warning messages...................................................................................................................................................... 93
Diagnostic messages.................................................................................................................................................. 93
Alert messages.............................................................................................................................................................93
Chapter 6: Using system diagnostics...........................................................................................94
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics..............................................................................................................................94
When to use the Embedded System Diagnostics................................................................................................94
Running the Embedded System Diagnostics from Boot Manager.................................................................. 94
Running the Embedded System Diagnostics from the Dell Lifecycle Controller......................................... 94
System diagnostics controls..................................................................................................................................... 94
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