Dell PowerEdge 2900 User Manual
Hardware owner’s manual
Table of contents
Document Outline
- Hardware Owner’s Manual
- Contents
- About Your System
- Using the System Setup Program
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Opening and Closing the System
- Hot-Plug Hard Drives
- Replacing a Hard-Drive Carrier
- Power Supplies
- Fans
- Expansion Cards
- Internal SCSI Tape Backup Unit
- Optical Drive
- Diskette Drive
- System Battery
- Cooling Shroud
- Fan Brackets
- Memory
- Installing a RAC Card
- Activating the Integrated NIC TOE
- Microprocessor
- 1x8 SAS Backplane Board
- Optional 1x2 Flex Bay Drive Bracket
- SAS Controller Daughter Card
- Cabling the SAS Backplane Boards
- Configuring the Boot Drive
- Control Panel Assembly (Service-Only Procedure)
- System Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Power Distribution Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First-For You and Your System
- Start-Up Routine
- Checking the Equipment
- Troubleshooting Basic I/O Functions
- Troubleshooting a NIC
- Troubleshooting a Wet System
- Troubleshooting a Damaged System
- Troubleshooting the System Battery
- Troubleshooting Power Supplies
- Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive
- Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive
- Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller Daughter Card
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting the Microprocessors
- Running the System Diagnostics
- Jumpers and Connectors
- Getting Help
- Glossary
- Index