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Important safety information . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. Product overview . . . . . . 1
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Specications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Software overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Software provided with your Windows
operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Locating computer controls, connectors, and
parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Locating controls and connectors on the front
of your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Locating connectors on the rear of your
computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Locating components . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Locating parts and connectors on the system
board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 2. Installing or replacing
hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing or replacing hardware . . . . . . . . 13
Installing external options . . . . . . . . 13
Removing the computer cover. . . . . . . 13
Removing and reinstalling the front bezel . . 14
Removing and reinstalling the PCI card
holder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing or replacing a memory module. . . 17
Installing or replacing a PCI card. . . . . . 21
Installing a new hard disk drive . . . . . . 23
Replacing a hard disk drive . . . . . . . . 26
Replacing the optical drive . . . . . . . . 27
Replacing the heat sink and fan assembly . . 29
Replacing the front fan assembly . . . . . 32
Replacing the rear fan assembly . . . . . . 34
Replacing the keyboard or mouse . . . . . 36
Completing the parts replacement . . . . . 37
Obtaining device drivers . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Basic security features . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Locking devices . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Password protection . . . . . . . . . . 40
Chapter 3. Recovery information . . . 41
Creating and using recovery media . . . . . . 41
Creating recovery media . . . . . . . . . 41
Using recovery media . . . . . . . . . . 41
Performing backup and recovery operations . . . 42
Performing a backup operation . . . . . . 43
Performing a recovery operation . . . . . . 43
Using the Rescue and Recovery workspace . . . 44
Creating and using a rescue medium . . . . . . 45
Creating a rescue medium . . . . . . . . 45
Using a rescue medium . . . . . . . . . 45
Installing or reinstalling device drivers . . . . . 46
Solving recovery problems . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chapter 4. Using the Setup Utility
program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Starting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 49
Viewing or changing settings . . . . . . . . . 49
Using passwords. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Password considerations. . . . . . . . . 50
Administrator password . . . . . . . . . 50
User Password. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Setting, changing, or deleting a password . . 50
Enabling or disabling a device . . . . . . . . 50
Selecting a startup device . . . . . . . . . . 51
Selecting a temporary startup device . . . . 51
Viewing or changing the startup device
sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Advanced settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exiting the Setup Utility program . . . . . . . 52
Chapter 5. Conguring RAID . . . . . 53
Conguring RAID for machine types 4262, 4263,
4264, and 4265 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Installing SATA hard disk drives . . . . . . 53
Conguring the system BIOS to enable SATA
RAID functionality. . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 54
Deleting RAID volumes . . . . . . . . . 54
Conguring RAID for machine types 4266, 4269,
4271, and 4272 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing SATA or SAS hard disk drives . . . 55
Entering the Marvell BIOS Setup to congure
SATA or SAS RAID . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to enable
SATA/SAS RAID 0, 1, or 5 functionality . . . 55
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to set an
optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . . 56
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an optional hot spare hard disk drive . . . . 56
Conguring the Marvell BIOS Setup to delete
an array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Chapter 6. Updating system
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Using system programs . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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