Table Of Contents - IBM IntelliStation E Pro Hardware Maintenance Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements used in this book
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Computer controls and indicators
Turning on the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Turning off the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Enabling Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent . . . . . . . . 19
Using the SCSISelect Utility program (some models) . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
POST error log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
POST beep codes
Small computer system interface (SCSI) messages (some models)
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
PC-Doctor for Windows
Error charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recovering the operating system and preinstalled software
Creating and using an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette. . . . . . . . . 26
Recovery-repair diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Erasing a lost or forgotten password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Updating BIOS code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Clearing CMOS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Power checkout
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
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Features and specifications - Type 6216 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Features and specifications - Type 6226 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Starting the SCSISelect Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SCSISelect menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Downloading the diagnostics program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Starting the diagnostic programs and viewing the test log . . . . . . . . 24
Diagnostic error message tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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Recovering or installing device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recovering the operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics diskette. . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Using the Enhanced Diagnostics diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating a recovery-repair diskette
Using the recovery-repair diskette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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