Dell R420 manuals

Dell R420 Owner's Manual (137 pages)

Brand: Dell | Category: Servers | Size: 8.76 MB |

English

Table of contents

Dell PowerEdge R420 Systems

1

Owner's Manual

1

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

2

Contents

3

About Your System

9

LCD Panel Features

12

Home Screen

13

Setup Menu

13

Diagnostic Indicators

14

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns

16

NIC Indicator Codes

18

Power Indicator Codes

18

Getting Started Guide

19

Choosing The System Boot Mode

21

Entering System Setup

22

System Setup Options

22

System Setup Main Screen

23

System BIOS Screen

23

System Information Screen

23

Memory Settings Screen

24

Processor Settings Screen

24

SATA Settings Screen

25

Boot Settings Screen

26

Integrated Devices Screen

26

Serial Communications Screen

27

System Security Screen

29

Miscellaneous Settings

30

Boot Manager Screen

33

Embedded System Management

34

Installing System Components

35

Removing The Front Bezel

36

Opening The System

36

Inside The System

37

Cooling Shroud

40

System Memory

41

Mode-Specific Guidelines

43

Memory Sparing

44

Memory Mirroring

44

Sample Memory Configurations

44

Removing Memory Modules

45

Hard Drives

47

Removing A Cabled Hard Drive

51

1. hard-drive carrier

54

2. screws (4)

54

3. hard drive

54

4. screw holes (4)

54

2. screws (5)

55

4. 2.5 inch hard drive

55

Optical Drive (Optional)

56

Cooling Fans

60

Installing A Cooling Fan

61

Removing An Expansion Card

63

Installing An Expansion Card

65

Removing The iDRAC Ports Card

68

SD vFlash Card

69

Internal Dual SD Module

70

Internal SD Card

72

Processors

74

Installing A Processor

76

Power Supplies

77

Hot Spare Feature

78

System Battery

81

Hard-Drive Backplane

82

1. release tabs (2)

84

2. hard-drive backplane

84

3. guide pins (2)

84

4. chassis hooks (4)

84

Control Panel Assembly

88

Installing The Control Panel

89

VGA Module

94

Installing The VGA Module

95

Power Distribution Board

97

System Board

98

Installing The System Board

99

Troubleshooting Your System

101

Troubleshooting A NIC

102

Troubleshooting A Wet System

102

Troubleshooting Cooling Fans

105

Troubleshooting System Memory

105

Troubleshooting An SD Card

106

Troubleshooting A Hard Drive

108

Troubleshooting Processors

110

Using System Diagnostics

111

System Diagnostic Controls

112

Jumpers And Connectors

113

System Board Connectors

114

Technical Specifications

117

System Messages

121

Warning Messages

135

Diagnostic Messages

135

Alert Messages

135

Getting Help

137

Dell R420 Specifications (51 pages)

Brand: Dell | Category: Servers | Size: 1.24 MB |

English

Table of contents

PowerEdge R420

1

Table of contents

3

Figures

4

1 System overview

5

Key technologies

6

Specifications

7

3 Chassis views and features

11

Chassis features

12

Front control panel

13

Quick Resource Locator

13

Security features

14

4 Processor

15

Chipset

16

5 Memory

17

Memory configurations

18

Memory speed

19

Memory RAS features

19

Dell PowerEdge R420

20

Systems Owner’s Manual

20

6 Storage

21

External storage

22

Storage controllers

22

Optical drive

23

Tape drive

23

7 Networking and PCIe

24

PCIe expansion cards

25

GPU and HIC cards

25

Power supply units

27

Thermal and acoustics

28

Acoustical design

29

Rack Installation

32

Instructions

32

Cable management arm

33

Supported operating systems

34

Supported virtualization

35

Systems management solutions

36

Agent-based management

39

Dell OpenManage consoles

40

Video specifications

44

Environmental specifications

45

Power supply specifications

46

Rack rail specifications

46

USB peripherals

47

BroadCom

51

1GbE x 2

51

SD Conn

51

Dell R420 Owner's Manual (145 pages)

Brand: Dell | Category: Servers | Size: 7.73 MB |

English

Table of contents

Dell PowerEdge R420 Systems

1

Owner's Manual

1

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings

2

Contents

3

About Your System

9

LCD Panel Features

12

Home Screen

13

Setup Menu

13

Diagnostic Indicators

14

Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns

16

NIC Indicator Codes

18

Power Indicator Codes

18

Getting Started Guide

19

Choosing The System Boot Mode

21

Entering System Setup

22

System Setup Options

23

Memory Settings Screen

24

Processor Settings Screen

24

SATA Settings Screen

26

Boot Settings Screen

26

Integrated Devices Screen

27

Serial Communications Screen

28

System Security Screen

29

Miscellaneous Settings

30

Embedded System Management

34

Changing The Thermal Settings

35

Installing System Components

37

Removing The Front Bezel

38

Opening The System

38

Inside The System

39

Cooling Shroud

42

System Memory

43

Mode-Specific Guidelines

45

Sample Memory Configurations

46

Removing Memory Modules

48

Installing Memory Modules

49

Hard Drives

50

Removing A Cabled Hard Drive

54

1. hard-drive carrier

57

2. screws (4)

57

3. hard drive

57

4. screw holes (4)

57

2. screws (5)

58

4. 2.5 inch hard drive

58

Optical Drive (Optional)

60

Cooling Fans

63

Installing A Cooling Fan

64

Removing An Expansion Card

67

Installing An Expansion Card

68

Removing The iDRAC Ports Card

71

SD vFlash Card

72

Internal Dual SD Module

73

Internal SD Card

75

Processors

77

Installing A Processor

79

Power Supplies

80

Hot Spare Feature

81

System Battery

84

Hard-Drive Backplane

85

1. release tabs (2)

87

2. hard-drive backplane

87

3. guide pins (2)

87

4. chassis hooks (4)

87

Control Panel Assembly

90

Removing The Control Panel

91

Installing The Control Panel

92

VGA Module

97

Installing The VGA Module

98

Power Distribution Board

100

System Board

101

Installing The System Board

102

Troubleshooting Your System

105

Troubleshooting A NIC

106

Troubleshooting A Wet System

107

Troubleshooting Cooling Fans

109

Troubleshooting System Memory

109

Troubleshooting An SD Card

110

Troubleshooting A Hard Drive

112

Troubleshooting Processors

114

Using System Diagnostics

115

System Diagnostic Controls

116

Jumpers And Connectors

117

System Board Connectors

118

Technical Specifications

121

System Messages

127

Warning Messages

143

Diagnostic Messages

143

Alert Messages

143

Getting Help

145

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