Owners Manual
Hard drives........................................................................................................................................ 100
Removing a 2.5 inch hard-drive blank (Front)........................................................................... 100
Installing a 2.5 inch hard-drive blank (Front)..............................................................................101
Removing a hot-swap hard drive................................................................................................101
Installing a hot-swap hard drive................................................................................................. 102
Removing a hard drive from a hard-drive carrier...................................................................... 103
Installing a hard drive into a hard-drive carrier..........................................................................103
Hard-drive backplane....................................................................................................................... 104
Removing the hard-drive backplane..........................................................................................104
Installing the hard-drive backplane............................................................................................106
Removing the control panel....................................................................................................... 107
Installing the control panel.........................................................................................................109
Removing the I/O panel..............................................................................................................109
Installing the I/O panel.................................................................................................................111
5 Troubleshooting your system.........................................................................112
Safety first—for you and your system............................................................................................... 112
Troubleshooting system startup failure............................................................................................112
Troubleshooting external connections............................................................................................ 112
Troubleshooting the video subsystem............................................................................................. 112
Troubleshooting a USB device..........................................................................................................112
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (USB XML configuration)................................................................ 113
Troubleshooting iDRAC Direct (laptop connection)........................................................................114
Troubleshooting a serial I/O device..................................................................................................114
Troubleshooting a NIC......................................................................................................................114
Troubleshooting a wet system..........................................................................................................115
Troubleshooting a damaged system................................................................................................ 116
Troubleshooting the system battery.................................................................................................116
Troubleshooting power supply units................................................................................................ 117
Power source problems...............................................................................................................117
PSU problems...............................................................................................................................117
Troubleshooting cooling problems..................................................................................................118
Troubleshooting cooling fans...........................................................................................................118
Troubleshooting system memory.....................................................................................................119
Troubleshooting an SD card.............................................................................................................120
Troubleshooting a hard drive........................................................................................................... 120
Troubleshooting a storage controller...............................................................................................121
Troubleshooting expansion cards.................................................................................................... 122
Troubleshooting processors.............................................................................................................122
System messages.............................................................................................................................. 123
Warning messages.......................................................................................................................123
Diagnostic messages...................................................................................................................123
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