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Removing and replacing Tier 2 CRUs
Removing and replacing FRUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Chapter 5. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Diagnostic tools
POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Troubleshooting tables
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Removing and installing the internal CD-RW/DVD drive . . . . . . . . . 51
Removing a memory module (DIMM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Removing the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine
Installing the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine . . . . . . . . . . 58
Removing the RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Installing the RAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Removing the RAID-controller battery
Installing the RAID-controller battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Removing a power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing a power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Removing a hot-swap fan assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Installing a hot-swap fan assembly
Removing the system-board battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Installing the system-board battery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
IBM System x3550 dc power supply 670 W . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Removing a riser card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Installing a riser card assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Removing a disk drive cage assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Installing a disk drive cage assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Removing the hot swap backplane or simple swap backplate . . . . . . . 80
Installing the hot swap backplane or simple swap backplate . . . . . . . 82
Removing the power-supply backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Installing the power-supply backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Removing a microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Installing a microprocessor
Thermal grease. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Removing the operator information panel assembly . . . . . . . . . . 90
Installing the operator information panel assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Removing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Installing the system board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
About the checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Performing the checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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CD-RW/DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
General problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Hard disk drive problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Intermittent problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
USB keyboard, mouse, or pointing-device problems . . . . . . . . . . 126
Memory problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Microprocessor problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Monitor problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Optional-device problems
Power problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Serial port problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
ServerGuide problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
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