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Dell PowerEdge T320 Systems
Owner's Manual
Regulatory Model: E20S Series
Regulatory Type: E20S001
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Notes, Cautions, and Warnings NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer. CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you how to avoid the problem. WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage, personal injury, or death. © 2013 Dell Inc. ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ Trademarks used in this text: Dell , the Dell logo, Dell Boomi , Dell Precision , OptiPlex , Latitude , PowerEdge , PowerVault , ™ ™
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Contents Notes, Cautions, and Warnings...................................................................................................2 1 About Your System......................................................................................................................9 Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Tower Mode...............................................................................................9 Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Rack Mode..................................
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Deleting Or Changing An Existing System And/Or Setup Password................................................................37 Using Your System Password To Secure Your System....................................................................................38 Operating With A Setup Password Enabled....................................................................................................38 Entering The UEFI Boot Manager.................................................................
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Removing A Hard Drive Or A Hard-Drive Adapter From A Hard-Drive Carrier................................................60 Installing A Hard Drive Or A Hard-Drive Adapter Into A Hard-Drive Carrier...................................................61 Hard Drives—Cabled..............................................................................................................................................61 Removing The Internal Hard-Drive Bay....................................................
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Installing An Internal Dual SD Module.............................................................................................................95 Internal SD Card.....................................................................................................................................................96 Removing An Internal SD Card.........................................................................................................................96 Installing An Internal SD Card.
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Rack Installation...................................................................................................................................................127 5 Troubleshooting Your System...............................................................................................129 Safety First—For You And Your System...............................................................................................................129 Troubleshooting System Startup Failure...............
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Removing LCD Messages...............................................................................................................................151 System Error Messages........................................................................................................................................151 Warning Messages...............................................................................................................................................167 Diagnostic Messages.....
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1 About Your System Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Tower Mode Figure 1. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—2.5 Inch Hot-Swappable Hard-Drive Chassis 9
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Figure 2. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—3.5 Inch Hot-Swappable Hard-Drive Chassis Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Tape drive (optional) One optional 5.25 inch tape drive. NOTE: If your system is installed with a double-width GPU card, the system supports only one 5.25 inch removable media storage device. 2 Optical drive 2 (optional) Up to two optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive. 3 Optical drive 1 (optional) NOTE: If your system is installed with a doubl
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 4 Power-on indicator, power The power-on indicator lights when the system power is button on. The power button controls the power supply output to the system. NOTE: On Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)-compliant operating systems, turning off the system using the power button causes the system to perform a graceful shutdown before power to the system is turned off. Used to troubleshoot software and device driver errors
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector • Up to sixteen 2.5 inch hot-swappable hard drives Figure 3. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—3.5 Inch Cabled Hard-Drive Chassis NOTE: Cabled hard-drive systems are not rackable. Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Tape drive (optional) One optional 5.25 inch tape drive. 2 Optical drive (optional) One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive. 12
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 3 Power-on indicator, power The power-on indicator lights when the system power is button on. The power button controls the power supply output to the system. NOTE: On ACPI-compliant operating systems, turning off the system using the power button causes the system to perform a graceful shutdown before power to the system is turned off. Used to troubleshoot software and device driver errors 4 NMI button when running certain operating sy
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Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Rack Mode Figure 4. Front-Panel Features and Indicators NOTE: Only systems with hot-swappable hard drives are rackable. Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Power-on indicator, power The power-on indicator lights when the system power is button on. The power button controls the power supply output to the system. NOTE: On ACPI-compliant operating systems, turning off the system using the power button causes the system to perform a gracefu
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in F2 iDRAC setup) press and hold for more than 15 seconds. 4 LCD menu buttons Allow you to navigate the control panel LCD menu. 5 Information tag A slide-out label panel which allows you to record system information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address, and so on. 6 LCD panel Displays system ID, status information, and system error messages. The LCD lights blue during normal system operation. The LCD lig
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• The LCD backlight is off when the system is in standby mode and can be turned on by pressing either the Select, Left, or Right indicator button on the LCD panel. • The LCD backlight remains off if LCD messaging is turned off through the iDRAC utility, the LCD panel, or other tools. Figure 5. LCD Panel Features Item Button Description 1 Left Moves the cursor back in one-step increments. 2 Select Selects the menu item highlighted by the cursor. 3 Right Moves the cursor forward in one-step incr
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Option Description Set error Select SEL to display LCD error messages in a format that matches the IPMI description in the SEL. This is useful when trying to match an LCD message with an SEL entry. Select Simple to display LCD error messages in a simplified user-friendly description. See System Error Messages for a list of messages in this format. Set home Select the default information to be displayed on the LCD Home screen. See View Menu to see the options and option items that can be set a
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Health Indicator Condition Corrective Action and any error exists Invalid memory configurations can cause the system to halt at (for example, a failed startup without any video output. See Getting Help. fan or hard drive) Hard-drive Indicator Condition Corrective Action The indicator lights None required. green to indicate hard-drive activity. Electrical Indicator Condition Corrective Action The indicator blinks See the System Event Log or system messages for the specific issue. amber if th
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Memory Indicator Condition Corrective Action The indicator blinks See the system event log or system messages for the location of the amber if a memory failed memory. Reinstall the memory device. If the problem persists, error occurs. see Getting Help. PCIe Indicator Condition Corrective Action The indicator blinks Restart the system. Update any required drivers for the PCIe card. amber if a PCIe card Re-install the card. If the problem persists, see Getting Help. experiences an error. Hard-
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Drive-Status Condition Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) NOTE: The drive status indicator remains off until all hard drives are initialized after the system is turned on. Drives are not ready for insertion or removal during this time. Blinks green, amber, Predicted drive failure and off Blinks amber four Drive failed times per second Blinks green slowly Drive rebuilding Steady green Drive online Blinks green three Rebuild aborted seconds, amber three seconds, and off six seconds 20
