Lenovo x3650 M4 BD 5466 - Serial-Device Problems

•FollowthesuggestedactionsintheorderinwhichtheyarelistedintheActioncolumnuntiltheproblemis
solved.
•SeeChapter5“Partslisting”onpage141tocheckifacomponentisaconsumable,structural,orFRUpart.
•Ifanactionstepisprecededby“(Trainedtechnicianonly),”thatstepmustbeperformedonlybyatrained
technician.
SymptomAction
Theserverdoesnotturnoff.
1.DeterminewhetheryouareusinganAdvancedConfigurationandPower
Interface(ACPI)oranon-ACPIoperatingsystem.Ifyouareusinganon-ACPI
operatingsystem,completethefollowingsteps:
a.PressCtrl+Alt+Delete.
b.Turnofftheserverbypressingthepower-controlbuttonandholditdownfor
5seconds.
c.Restarttheserver.
d.IftheserverfailsPOSTandthepower-controlbuttondoesnotwork,
disconnecttheacpowercordfor20seconds;then,reconnecttheacpower
cordandrestarttheserver.
2.IftheproblemremainsorifyouareusinganACPI-awareoperatingsystem,
suspectthesystemboard.
Theserverunexpectedlyshuts
down,andtheLEDsonthe
operatorinformationpanelare
notlit.
See“Solvingundeterminedproblems”onpage135.
Serial-deviceproblems
•FollowthesuggestedactionsintheorderinwhichtheyarelistedintheActioncolumnuntiltheproblemis
solved.
•SeeChapter5“Partslisting”onpage141
tocheckifacomponentisaconsumable,structural,orFRUpart.
•Ifanactionstepisprecededby“(Trainedtechnicianonly),”thatstepmustbeperformedonlybyatrained
technician.
SymptomAction
Thenumberofserialportsthat
areidentifiedbytheoperating
systemislessthanthenumber
ofinstalledserialports.
1.Makesurethat:
•EachportisassignedauniqueaddressintheSetuputilityandnoneofthe
serialportsisdisabled.
•Theserial-portadapter(ifoneispresent)isseatedcorrectly.
2.Reseattheserialportadapter.
3.Replacetheserialportadapter.
Aserialdevicedoesnotwork.1.Makesurethat:
•Thedeviceiscompatiblewiththeserver.
•Theserialportisenabledandisassignedauniqueaddress.
•Thedeviceisconnectedtothecorrectconnector(see“Rearview”onpage
15
).
2.Reseatthefollowingcomponents:
a.Failingserialdevice
b.Serialcable
3.Replacethecomponentslistedinstep2oneatatime,intheordershown,
restartingtheservereachtime.
4.(Trainedtechnicianonly)Replacethesystemboard.
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