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
Entering the system service tag by using System Setup
If Easy Restore fails to restore the service tag, use System Setup to enter the service tag.
Steps
1. Turn on the system.
2. Press F2 to enter System Setup.
3. Click Service Tag Settings.
4. Enter the service tag.
NOTE: You can enter the service tag only when the service tag field is empty. Ensure that you enter the correct
service tag. After the service tag is entered, it cannot be updated or changed.
5. Click Ok.
6. Import your new or existing iDRAC Enterprise license.
For more information, see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller User's Guide, at Dell.com/idracmanuals.
Restoring the Service Tag by using the Easy Restore feature
The Easy Restore feature enables you to restore your system’s Service Tag, license, UEFI configuration, and the system
configuration data after replacing the system board. All data is automatically backed up in a backup flash device. If BIOS detects
a new system board and the Service Tag in the backup flash device, BIOS prompts the user to restore the backup information.
Steps
1. Turn on the system.
If BIOS detects a new system board, and if the Service Tag is present in the backup flash device, BIOS displays the Service
Tag, the status of the license, and the UEFI Diagnostics version.
2. Perform one of the following steps:
● Press Y to restore the Service Tag, license, and diagnostics information.
● Press N to navigate to the Dell Lifecycle Controller based restore options.
● Press F10 to restore data from a previously created Hardware Server Profile.
After the restore process is complete, BIOS prompts to restore the system configuration data.
3. Perform one of the following steps:
● Press Y to restore the system configuration data.
● Press N to use the default configuration settings.
After the restore process is complete, the system restarts.
Updating the BIOS version
Steps
1. Copy the BIOS update file on a USB device.
2. Plug in the USB device into any of the USB ports on your system.
3. Turn on your system.
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