Dell PowerEdge C6100 User manual

Dell™ PowerEdge™ C6100
Systems
Hardware Owner’s
Manual
Regulatory Model XS23-TY3
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
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your computer.
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instructions are not followed.
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injury, or death.
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Regulatory Model XS23-TY3
January 2010 Rev. A01
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Contents
1 About Your System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Accessing System Features During Startup. . . . . . . 11
Front-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 12
Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Back-Panel Features and Indicators . . . . . . . . . . 16
NIC Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Power and System Board Indicator Codes . . . . . . . 20
Power Supply Indicator Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
BMC Heart Beat LED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
POST Error Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Collecting System Event Log for Investigation . . . 23
Other Information You May Need . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2 Using the System Setup Program . . . . . . 35
Start Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
System Setup Options at Boot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Console Redirection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Main Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Main Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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AMIBIOS Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Processor Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
System Memory Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Advanced Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
CPU Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Memory Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
IDE Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Primary IDE Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
USB Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
PCI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Boot Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Boot Settings Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Security Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Server Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
System Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Remote Access Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 48
IPMI Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Power Throttling Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 50
IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Default Gateway IP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Exit Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3 Installing System Components . . . . . . . 53
Safety Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Recommended Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Inside the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
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Hard Drives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Removing a Hard-Drive Blank . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Installing a Hard-Drive Blank. . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Removing a Hard-Drive Carrier. . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing a Hard Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Removing a Hard Drive From a
Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Installing a Hard Drive Into a
Hard-Drive Carrier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Removing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing a Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Removing a System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . 61
Installing a System-Board Assembly . . . . . . . . 62
Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Removing the Cooling Shroud . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Installing the Cooling Shroud. . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Heat Sinks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Removing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing the Heat Sink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Removing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Installing a Processor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Expansion-Card Assembly and Expansion Card . . . . 69
Removing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Installing the Expansion Card . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Expansion-Card Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Removing the Expansion-Card Connector . . . . . 72
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Installing the Expansion-Card Connector. . . . . . 74
Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Removing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . 74
Installing the SAS Mezzanine Card . . . . . . . . . 75
Removing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card . . . . . 76
Installing the Infiniband Mezzanine Card. . . . . . 77
System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Supported DIMM Configuration . . . . . . . . . . 77
Removing Memory Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Installing Memory Modules. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Interposer Extenders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Removing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 82
Installing the Interposer Extender . . . . . . . . . 83
System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Replacing the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . . 84
RAID Battery (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Removing the RAID Battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Installing the RAID Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Removing the RAID Battery Carrier. . . . . . . . . 87
Installing the RAID Battery Carrier . . . . . . . . . 88
System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing a System Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Installing a System Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Opening and Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Opening the System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Closing the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Cooling Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Removing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
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Installing a Cooling Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Power Distribution Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Removing a Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . 94
Installing a Power Distribution Board . . . . . . . 96
Fan Controller Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Installing the Fan Controller Board . . . . . . . . . 98
Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Removing the Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Installing the Midplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Backplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Removing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Installing the Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Front Panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Removing the Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Installing Front Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 113
Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . . 113
Installation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Troubleshooting System Startup Failure . . . . . . . . 114
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . . . . 114
Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . . . . 114
Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . . . . 115
Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
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Troubleshooting a Wet System. . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Troubleshooting a Damaged System. . . . . . . . . . 118
Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 118
Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 120
Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Troubleshooting a Storage Controller . . . . . . . . . 124
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Troubleshooting Processors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
IRQ Assignment Conflicts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
5 Jumpers and Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . 129
System Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Backplane Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3.5" drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
2.5" drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Midplane Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Interposer Extender Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Mezzanine Card Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Fan Controller Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . 138
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Power Distribution Board Connectors . . . . . . . . . 139
Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
System Configuration Jumper Settings. . . . . . . 140
Backplane Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
6 Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Contacting Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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