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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Inventory checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Controls, LEDs, and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing the hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Selecting a location for your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Arranging your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Turning off the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 3. Installing software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Viewing the license agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using the built-in configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Starting the SCSISelect utility program (some models) . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 4. Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Recording important numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Registering your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Creating an emergency recovery-repair diskette in Windows . . . . . . . . 51
Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics Diskette in Windows . . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Power-on self-test (POST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Troubleshooting charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Air circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing options in your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Cabling the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Turning on the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Enabling the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent . . . . . . 44
Using the Adaptec HostRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Viewing the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
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POST error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
CD-ROM drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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