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Contents
Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Notices and statements in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Major components of the xSeries 235 Type 8671 server . . . . . . . . . . 2
System-board component locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System-board option connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
System-board internal cable connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System-board external port connectors
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
System-board switches and jumpers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System-board LED locations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System reliability considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Working inside the server with the power on . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Standby mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Removing the server door (tower model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Removing the server left-side cover and bezel (tower model) . . . . . . . . 15
Removing the left-side cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Removing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Removing the server top cover and bezel (rack configuration) . . . . . . . 17
Removing the top cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Removing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Removing and installing the adapter-support bracket . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Working with adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Adapter considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing a hot-plug adapter (slots 5 and 6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing a non-hot-plug adapter (any slot). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Cabling example for a ServeRAID controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Working with the 3-Pack Ultra320 Hot-Swap Expansion option . . . . . . . 32
Installing the 3-Pack Ultra320 Hot-Swap Expansion option . . . . . . . . . 33
Installing internal drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Internal drive bays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Installing a 5.25-inch removable-media drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Installing memory modules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Replacing a hot-swap power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Installing a hot-swap power-supply option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Replacing a hot-swap fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Replacing a front fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Replacing a center fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Replacing a rear fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Replacing the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Completing the installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Installing the server bezel and left-side cover (tower model) . . . . . . . 62
Installing the server door (tower model) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Installing the server bezel and top cover (rack configuration) . . . . . . . 65
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