Dell PowerEdge EL Owner's Manual page 10

Item Indicator, Button, or
Connector
4 Video connector
5 LCD menu buttons
6 Information tag
7 LCD panel
8 Optical drive (optional)
9 Hard drives
10 vFlash media card slot
11 USB connectors (2)
12 Tape drive slot (optional)
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Icon Description
the front and the system status indicator on the back
flashes until one of the buttons is pressed again.
Press to toggle the system ID on and off.
If the system stops responding during POST, press and
hold the system ID button for more than five seconds to
enter BIOS progress mode.
To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in F2 iDRAC setup) press
and hold the button for more than 15 seconds.
Allows you to connect a VGA display to the system.
Allows you to navigate the control panel LCD menu.
A slide-out label panel which allows you to record system
information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address and
so on as per your need.
Displays system ID, status information, and system error
messages. The LCD lights blue during normal system
operation. The LCD lights amber when the system needs
attention, and the LCD panel displays an error code
followed by descriptive text.
NOTE: If the system is connected to a power source
and an error is detected, the LCD lights amber
regardless of whether the system is turned on or off.
One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive.
3.5 inch hard
drive systems
2.5 inch hard
drive systems
Allows you to insert a vFlash media card.
Allows you to connect USB devices to the system. The
ports are USB 2.0-compliant.
One optional 3.5 inch tape backup unit.
Up to eight 3.5 inch hot-
swappable drives.
Up to sixteen 2.5 inch hot-
swappable hard drives.
NOTE: In systems supporting
Dell PowerEdge Express
Flash devices (PCIe SSDs),
hard-drive slots 0 through 3
in hard-drive bay 2 support
only PCIe SSDs. Hard-drive
bay 3 does not support any
hard drives and is installed
with a hard-drive blank.