Dell PowerEdge R905 - Manual (Page 8)

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Contents
4 Troubleshooting Your System . . . . . . . . 145
Safety First—For You and Your System . . . . . . . . 145
Start-Up Routine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Checking Basic Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Checking the Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Troubleshooting External Connections . . . . . . 147
Troubleshooting the Video Subsystem . . . . . . 147
Troubleshooting the Keyboard or Mouse . . . . . 148
Troubleshooting Serial I/O Problems . . . . . . . . . 150
Troubleshooting a Serial I/O Device . . . . . . . 150
Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . 151
Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 155
Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 155
Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems . . . . . . 157
Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Troubleshooting a SAS Controller or SAS
RAID Controller
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Troubleshooting an External SAS Tape Drive . . . . . 165