Front Panel; 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Chassis - Dell PowerEdge E31S Series Owner's Manual

Front panel

The front panel provides access to the features available on the front of the server, such as the power button, NMI button,
system identification tag, system identification button, and USB and VGA ports. The diagnostic LEDs or the LCD panel is
prominently located on the front panel. The hot swappable hard drives are accessible from the front panel.

3.5 inch hard drive chassis

Figure 2. Front panel features (3.5-inch hard drive chassis)
1. Power button
3. System identification button
5. LCD menu buttons
7. LCD panel
9. USB management port/iDRAC Direct
11. USB port
13. Quick Sync
Table 1. Front panel featuress (3.5-inch hard drive chassis)
Item Indicator, button, or
connector
1 Power button
2 NMI button
3 System identification button
10 Dell PowerEdge R730 system overview
2. NMI button
4. Video connector
6. Information tag
8. Hard drives
10. vFlash media card slot
12. Optical drive
Icon Description
The power button controls the power supply output to the
system.
NOTE:
power button is used to shutdown the system, the
operating system performs a graceful shut down the
system power is turned off.
Enables you to troubleshoot software and device driver errors
when running certain operating systems. This button can be
pressed by using the end of a paper clip.
NOTE:
support personnel or by instructions in the operating
system's documentation.
Enables you to locate a particular system within a rack. The
identification buttons are located on the front and back panels.
Press the system identification button to turn the system ID on
or off.
NOTE:
On ACPI compliant operating systems, when the
Use this button only if directed to do so by qualified