PRIMERGY TX300 S3 - Page 4

Operating Manual TX300 S3
Contents
7 Troubleshooting and Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.1 Power On Indicator Remains Unlit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
7.2 Server Switches Itself Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.3 Screen Remains Blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
7.4 Flickering Stripes on Monitor Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.5 No Screen Display or Display Drifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.6 No Mouse Pointer Displayed on Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.7 Unable to Read From / Write To Floppy Disk . . . . . . . . . . 82
7.8 Incorrect Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
7.9 Drives Reported as “Dead” When Starting System . . . . . . . 83
7.10 Added Drive Reported as Defective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
7.11 Hot-plug PCI fault indication lights up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7.12 Hot-plug PCI voltage display does not light up after the board has
been replaced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
7.13 Error Message on Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8 Hot plug components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.1 Hot-plug power supply units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.1.1 Replacing Hot Pluggable Power Supply Units . . . . . . . . . . 88
8.2 Hot-pluggable hard disk drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
8.2.1 Handling Hard Disk Drives/HDD Modules . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
8.2.2 Installing/Removing the Dummy Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
8.2.3 Installing/Removing the HDD Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
8.3 Replacing a Hot-pluggable CPU/System Fan . . . . . . . . . . 97
8.4 Hot-pluggable PCI boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8.4.1 Replacing hot-pluggable PCI Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
8.4.2 Remove the hot-pluggable PCI board from the removal tool . . 102
8.4.3 Place the hot-pluggable PCI board in the removal tool . . . . . 103
8.4.4 Installing an additional hot-pluggable PCI Board . . . . . . . . 104
8.4.4.1 Removing the PCI slot cover from the removal tool . . . . . . . 106
8.5 Opening/Closing the Housing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117