Table Of Contents - IBM 8835 - Eserver 325 - 1 GB RAM Maintenance And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements used in this book
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the RAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controllers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Using the baseboard management controller firmware update utility program
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Power-on self-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Error charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Small computer system interface (SCSI) messages (some models)
Error LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Updating BIOS code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Erasing a lost or forgotten password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Power checkout
Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Major components of the Eserver 325 Type 8835 server . . . . . . . . . 26
Removing the cover and bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Working with adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
POST error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Downloading the diagnostics program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Starting the diagnostic programs and viewing the test log . . . . . . . . 18
Using the diagnostics CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the diagnostic diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Diagnostic error message tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Clearing CMOS memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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