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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM IntelliStation Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Related documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Inventory checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Controls, LEDs, and connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Installing the hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Selecting a location for your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Arranging your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Comfort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Glare and lighting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Air circulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Electrical outlets and cable lengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing options in your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Cabling the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Turning on the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Running the operating system setup program . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Turning off the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Chapter 3. Installing software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Viewing the license agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Using the built-in configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Enabling the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent . . . . . . 46
Using the Adaptec HostRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . 46
Using ServeRAID Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring the controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Viewing the configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Starting the SCSISelect utility program (some models) . . . . . . . . . . 51
Chapter 4. Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Recording important numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Registering your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Creating an emergency recovery-repair diskette in Windows . . . . . . . . 53
Creating an IBM Enhanced Diagnostics Diskette or CD in Windows . . . . . 54
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Diagnostic tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Power-on self-test (POST) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
POST error codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Troubleshooting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
CD or DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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