Table Of Contents - IBM IntelliStation A Pro 6224 Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Controls, LEDs, connectors, and power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Chapter 2. Configuring the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Power-on self-test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Error charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Emergency recovery-repair diskettes (Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Diagnostic error message tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
PC-Doctor for Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Diagnostic LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Recovering the operating system and preinstalled software
Small computer system interface (SCSI) messages (some models)
Updating (flash-updating) the BIOS code on the computer . . . . . . . . . 20
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Erasing a lost or forgotten password (clearing CMOS) . . . . . . . . . . 22
Power checkout
Chapter 4. Customer replaceable units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Major components of the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing the side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Replacing the support bracket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Replacing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Installing and removing an adapter
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Controls, LEDs, and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Computer power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
POST error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Starting the diagnostic programs and viewing the test log . . . . . . . . 13
Creating an Enhanced Diagnostics diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using the Enhanced Diagnostics diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Creating an emergency recovery-repair diskette in Windows . . . . . . . 15
Using the recovery-repair diskette in Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
System-board diagnostic LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Microprocessor-board diagnostic LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Recovering the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Recovering or installing device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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System reliability considerations
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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