Table Of Contents - IBM System x3200 Installation Manual

Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM System x Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing optional devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Removing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Removing the two-piece bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing a memory module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing a drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Cabling the optional ServeRAID-8s controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 3. Server controls, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Front view
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Enabling the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent . . . . . . . 44
Configuring the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . 45
LSI Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
POST beep codes
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Working inside the server with the power on
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing a CD or DVD drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing a tape drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Installing a hot-swap SAS or hot-swap SATA hard disk drive . . . . . . . 20
IDs for hot-swap hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing a simple-swap SATA hard disk drive
Power and signal cables for internal drives
Installing the simple-swap SATA cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Installing the hot-swap SAS/SATA cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Reinstalling the two-piece bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Reinstalling the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
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