IBM eServer xSeries 205 Type 8480, Hardware Maintenance Manual And Troubleshooting Manual

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Contents
About this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Important safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Chapter 1. General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Server controls, LEDs, and connectors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Server controls and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Server connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Server power features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Chapter 2. Configuring your server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Starting the Configuration/Setup Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Enabling Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Boot Agent . . . . . . . . 13
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
ServerGuide features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Setup and configuration overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Typical operating-system installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Setting up or updating multiple servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing your operating system without ServerGuide . . . . . . . . . . 16
Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Using the SCSISelect Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Starting the SCSISelect Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
SCSISelect menu choices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Using the Boot Menu program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Chapter 3. Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
General checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Checkout procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
POST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
POST beep codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Error logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ServerGuide error symptoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Small computer system interface messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Diagnostic programs and error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Text messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Starting the diagnostic programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Diagnostic error message tables
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Recovering from a POST/BIOS update failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Power checkout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Troubleshooting the Ethernet controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Network connection problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Ethernet controller troubleshooting chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Ethernet controller messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 4. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
System reliability considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Major components of the IBM
Eserver
xSeries 205 Type 8480 . . . . . . . 34
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