Table Of Contents - IBM 8649 - Eserver xSeries 225 Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Introducing the IBM xSeries 225 Type 8649 server . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this publication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Controls and indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Configuring your server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the RAID Configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
POST error codes and messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
ServerGuide error symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Small computer system interface messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Diagnostic programs, error codes, and messages . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Erasing a lost or forgotten password (clearing CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . 28
Power checkout
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ServerGuide features
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
System Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Typical operating system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setting up or updating multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing your operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Viewing error logs from the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . 21
Viewing error logs from diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Starting the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
System-board error LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diagnostic error code tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Network connection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Ethernet controller troubleshooting chart
Ethernet controller messages
System reliability considerations
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