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Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The IBM xSeries Documentation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Notices and statements in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Features and specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Major components of the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2. Installing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Installation guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Removing the front cover, top cover, and bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Installing additional DIMMs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Installing an additional microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Installing an adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Completing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Chapter 3. Server controls, connectors, LEDs, and power . . . . . . . . 27
Rear view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Server power features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Chapter 4. Configuring the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Using the SAS/SATA Configuration Utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the ServeRAID configuration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the PXE boot agent utility program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Using the Remote Supervisor II Web Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Chapter 5. Solving problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Diagnostic tools overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
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Hardware and software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Using the Documentation Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
System reliability guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Handling static-sensitive devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Removing the front cover (tower model only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Removing the bezel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Installing a DIMM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Installing a memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installing the Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine . . . . . . . . . . 20
Installing a ServeRAID-8i adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Installing a hot-plug adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Installing the top cover, bezel and front cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Updating the server configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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Turning on the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Turning off the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the baseboard management controller utility programs . . . . . . . 34
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