Installing The Hard-Drive/SSD Backplane.......................................................................................................52
System board..........................................................................................................................................................53
Removing The System Board...........................................................................................................................53
Installing The System Board............................................................................................................................ 54
NVRAM backup battery..........................................................................................................................................55
Replacing The NVRAM Backup Battery.......................................................................................................... 55
Storage controller card/PCIe extender card..........................................................................................................56
Removing The PCIe Extender Card/Storage Controller Card...........................................................................56
Installing The PCIe Extender Card/Storage Controller Card............................................................................57
4 Troubleshooting your system..................................................................................................58
Safety first—for you and your system....................................................................................................................58
Troubleshooting System Memory...........................................................................................................................58
Troubleshooting hard drives...................................................................................................................................59
Troubleshooting USB devices................................................................................................................................ 59
Troubleshooting An Internal SD Card.....................................................................................................................60
Troubleshooting processors...................................................................................................................................60
Troubleshooting the blade system board...............................................................................................................60
Troubleshooting the NVRAM backup battery.........................................................................................................61
5 Using system diagnostics........................................................................................................62
Dell Online Diagnostics...........................................................................................................................................62
Dell Embedded System Diagnostics.......................................................................................................................62
When to use the Embedded System Diagnostics............................................................................................ 62
Running the Embedded System Diagnostics....................................................................................................63
Running embedded system diagnostics from an external media....................................................................63
System diagnostic controls..............................................................................................................................63
6 Jumpers and connectors.........................................................................................................64
System Board Jumper Settings..............................................................................................................................64
System Board Connectors......................................................................................................................................65
Disabling A Forgotten Password............................................................................................................................ 66
7 Technical Specifications......................................................................................................... 67
8 System messages..................................................................................................................... 70
LCD status messages..............................................................................................................................................70
Viewing LCD messages....................................................................................................................................70
Removing LCD messages.................................................................................................................................70
System Error Messages..........................................................................................................................................70
Warning messages...............................................................................................................................................139
Diagnostic messages............................................................................................................................................139