Contents 7
Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 114
Troubleshooting Power Supply
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
. . . . . . . 116
Troubleshooting a Fan
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Troubleshooting System Memory
. . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Troubleshooting an External SCSI Tape Drive
. . . . . 123
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller
. . . . 125
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
. . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Troubleshooting the Microprocessor
. . . . . . . . . . 129
5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . 131
Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . 131
System Diagnostics Features
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
When to Use the System Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . 132
Running the System Diagnostics
. . . . . . . . . . . . 132
System Diagnostics Testing Options
. . . . . . . . . . 132
Using the Custom Test Options
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Selecting Devices for Testing
. . . . . . . . . . . 133
Selecting Diagnostics Options
. . . . . . . . . . . 133
Viewing Information and Results
. . . . . . . . . . 134
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