Table Of Contents - IBM Eserver xSeries 335 Type 8676 Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. General information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements used in this book
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Server controls, LEDs and power
Chapter 2. Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Using the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the ServeRAID configuration programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Updating the integrated system management firmware . . . . . . . . . . 20
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
POST error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ServerGuide error symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Small computer system interface messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Light Path Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Recovering the BIOS code
Power checkout
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Front view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Server power features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Configuration/Setup Utility menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
ServerGuide features
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
System Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Setting up or updating multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Installing your operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 17
Starting the LSI Logic Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . 18
Formatting a SCSI hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Viewing error logs from the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . 24
Viewing error logs from the diagnostic programs
Starting the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Diagnostic error message tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Error code format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Text message format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Level 2 diagnostic panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
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Ethernet plug wrap test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Network connection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Ethernet controller troubleshooting chart
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