IBM System x3550 M3 Type 7944 manuals
System x3550 M3 Type 7944
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. The System x3550 M3 server
- The IBM System x Documentation CD
- Related documentation
- Notices and statements in this document
- Features and specifications
- What your server offers
- Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- IBM Systems Director
- Server controls, LEDs, and power
- Operator information panel
- Rear view
- System pulse LEDs
- Server power features
- turning off the server
- Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
- Server components
- System-board internal connectors
- System-board external connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- System reliability guidelines
- Internal cable routing and connectors
- Removing the cover
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing a memory module
- DIMM installation sequence
- Memory mirroring
- Online-spare memory
- Installing a DIMM
- Installing drives
- Installing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing an optional DVD drive
- Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing an adapter
- Replacing a PCI Express assembly with a PCI-X assembly
- Replacing a PCI-X assembly with a PCI Express assembly
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller from the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing an optional optical drive cage
- Installing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD option
- Installing a second microprocessor and heat sink
- Thermal grease
- Installing a hot-swap fan assembly
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing the virtual media key
- Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device
- Installing a RAID adapter battery remotely in the server
- Completing the installation
- Replacing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Replacing the cover
- Updating the server configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring the server
- Using the Setup utility
- Setup utility menu choices
- Passwords
- Using the Boot Manager program
- ServerGuide features
- Typical operating-system installation
- Using the integrated management module
- Using the embedded hypervisor
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Obtaining the IP address for the IMM
- Configuring the Gigabit Ethernet controller
- Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program
- Creating a RAID array of hard disk drives
- The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Using the documentation
- Hardware service and support
- Appendix B. Notices
- Important notes
- Particulate contamination
- Telecommunication regulatory statement
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- VCCI Class A statement
- Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement
- Index
System x3550 M3 Type 7944
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- safety statements
- server
- The IBM Documentation CD
- Using the Documentation Browser
- Related documentation
- Notices and statements in this document
- What your server offers
- Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- IBM Systems Director
- The UpdateXpress System Pack Installer
- Operator information panel
- Light path diagnostics panel
- light path diagnostics leds
- rear view
- power-supply leds
- System pulse LEDs
- Server power features
- Chapter 2. Installing optional devices
- Server components
- System-board internal connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- Installation guidelines
- System reliability guidelines
- Handling static-sensitive devices
- Removing the cover
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing a memory module
- DIMM installation sequence
- Memory mirroring
- Online-spare memory
- Installing drives
- ids for hot-swap hard disk drives
- installing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- ids for simple-swap hard disk drives
- installing an optional dvd drive
- Replacing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing an adapter
- Replacing a PCI Express assembly with a PCI-X assembly
- Replacing a PCI-X assembly with a PCI Express assembly
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing a hot-swap fan assembly
- Installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device
- Installing the virtual media key
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing a RAID adapter battery remotely in the server
- Installing the DVD enablement kit
- Installing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD option
- installing a second microprocessor and heat sink
- Thermal grease
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the cover
- Connecting the cables
- Updating the server configuration
- Chapter 3. Configuring the server
- Using the Setup utility
- Starting the Setup utility
- Passwords
- Power-on password
- Administrator password
- Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD
- Setup and configuration overview
- Installing your operating system without using ServerGuide
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- Enabling the remote presence feature
- Logging on to the Web interface
- Recovering the flash device image
- configuring the gigabit ethernet controller
- Starting the LSI Configuration Utility program
- Formatting a hard disk drive
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Installing updates with your management server is connected to the Internet
- Appendix. Getting help and technical assistance
- Using the documentation
- Creating a personalized support web page
- Notices
- Trademarks
- Particulate contamination
- Documentation format
- Electronic emission notices
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) statement
- Taiwan Class A compliance statement
- Index
System x3550 M3 Type 7944
Table of contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- Table Of Contents
- guidelines for trained service technicians
- safety statements
- Chapter 1. Start here
- Undocumented problems
- Chapter 2. Introduction
- Notices and statements in this document
- Features and specifications
- Server controls, LEDs, and power
- Operator information panel
- Light path diagnostics panel
- Rear view
- Server power features
- turning off the server
- Internal LEDs, connectors, and jumpers
- System-board external connectors
- System-board switches and jumpers
- System-board LEDs
- System-board optional device connectors
- Chapter 3. Diagnostics
- POST
- Error logs
- POST error codes
- System event log
- Checkout procedure
- Troubleshooting tables
- General problems
- Hypervisor problems
- Intermittent problems
- Keyboard, mouse, or pointing-device problems
- Memory problems
- Microprocessor problems
- Monitor and video problems
- Optional-device problems
- Power problems
- Serial-device problems
- Software problems
- Universal Serial Bus (USB) port problems
- Light path diagnostics LEDs
- Power-supply LEDs
- System pulse LEDs
- Running the diagnostic programs
- Diagnostic text messages
- Recovering the server firmware
- Automated boot recovery (ABR)
- Solving Ethernet controller problems
- Problem determination tips
- Chapter 4. Parts listing, System x3550 M3 Types 4254 and 7944
- Consumable parts
- Power cords
- Chapter 5. Removing and replacing server components
- System reliability guidelines
- working inside the server with the power on
- returning a device or component
- Removing and replacing consumable parts and Tier 1 CRUs
- Removing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Installing the microprocessor 2 air baffle
- Removing the DIMM air baffle
- Installing the DIMM air baffle
- Removing an adapter
- Installing an adapter
- Removing the SAS/SATA RAID riser-card assembly
- Installing the SAS/SATA RAID riser-card assembly
- Removing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- installing a hot-swap hard disk drive
- removing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Installing a simple-swap hard disk drive
- Removing an optional DVD drive
- Installing an optional DVD drive
- Removing a memory module
- Installing a memory module
- dimm installation sequence
- installing a dimm
- Removing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller from the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
- Installing a ServeRAID SAS/SATA controller on the SAS/SATA RAID riser card
- Removing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- Installing an optional ServeRAID adapter advanced feature key
- removing a usb embedded hypervisor flash device
- Installing a USB embedded hypervisor flash device
- removing a hot-swap ac power supply
- installing a hot-swap ac power supply
- Removing a hot-swap fan assembly
- Installing a hot-swap fan assembly
- Removing the virtual media key
- Removing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- Installing the optional two-port Ethernet adapter
- removing a remotely installed raid adapter battery
- installing a raid adapter battery remotely in the server
- Removing the system battery
- Installing the system battery
- Removing and replacing Tier 2 CRUs
- Removing an optional optical drive cage
- removing the dvd cable
- Installing the DVD cable
- Removing a SAS/SATA 4 Pac HDD option
- Removing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing a PCI riser-card assembly
- Installing the PCI riser-card bracket to the riser card
- Removing the hot-swap SAS/SATA hard disk drive backplane
- removing the simple-swap sata hard disk drive backplate assembly
- Installing the simple-swap SATA hard disk drive backplate assembly
- Removing the operator information panel assembly
- Installing the operator information panel assembly
- Removing and replacing FRUs
- installing the 240 va safety cover
- removing a microprocessor and heat sink
- Installing a microprocessor and heat sink
- thermal grease
- Removing the heat sink retention module
- Installing a heat sink retention module
- Installing the system board
- Updating the firmware
- Using the ServerGuide Setup and Installation CD
- setup and configuration overview
- Using the Setup utility
- setup utility menu choices
- Using the integrated management module
- Using the remote presence capability and blue-screen capture
- enabling the remote presence feature
- Using the embedded hypervisor
- Enabling the Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Utility program
- starting the lsi configuration utility program
- IBM Advanced Settings Utility program
- Activating 1333 MHz operation in two-DIMM-per-channel configuration
- Updating IBM Systems Director
- Updating the Universal Unique Identifier (UUID)
- Updating the DMI/SMBIOS data
- Appendix A. Getting help and technical assistance
- Software service and support
- Appendix B. Notices
- Important notes
- Particulate contamination
- Electronic emission notices
- European Union EMC Directive conformance statement
- Japan VCCI Class A statement
- Russia Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Class A statement
- Index
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