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Jumpers and Connectors

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 6600 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Jumpers—A General Explanation
I/O Riser Card Jumpers and Connectors
I/O Board Connectors and Buses
Microprocessor Board Connectors
SCSI Backplane Board Connectors
Peripheral Riser Card Connectors
Disabling a Forgotten Password
This section provides specific information about the jumpers on the system board. It also provides some basic information on jumpers and switches and
describes the connectors and sockets on the various boards in the system.
Jumpers—A General Explanation
Jumpers provide a convenient and reversible way of reconfiguring the circuitry on a printed circuit board. When reconfiguring the system, you may need to
change jumper settings on the system board. You may also need to change jumper settings on expansion cards or drives.
Jumpers
Jumpers are small blocks on a circuit board with two or more pins emerging from them. Plastic plugs containing a wire fit down over the pins. The wire connects
the pins and creates a circuit. To change a jumper setting, pull the plug off its pin(s) and carefully fit it down onto the pin(s) indicated.
example of a jumper.
Figure A-1. Example Jumpers
CAUTION: Make sure the system is turned off before you change a jumper setting. Otherwise, damage to the system or unpredictable results may
occur.
A jumper is referred to as open or unjumpered when the plug is pushed down over only one pin or if there is no plug at all. When the plug is pushed down
over two pins, the jumper is referred to as jumpered. The jumper setting is often shown in text as two numbers, such as 1-2. The number 1 is printed on the
circuit board so that you can identify each pin number based on the location of pin 1.
Figure A-2 shows the location and default settings of the jumper blocks on the system board. See
functions of the system's jumpers.
I/O Riser Card Jumpers and Connectors
Figure A-2 shows the location of the configuration jumpers and connector on the I/O riser card.
Figure A-2. I/O Riser Card Components
Table A-1 for the designations, default settings, and
Table A-1 and Table A-2 list the jumpers and connectors.
Figure A-1 shows an