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Dell PowerEdge T620 Systems
Owner's Manual
Regulatory Model: E17S Series
Regulatory Type: E17S001
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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. All Rights Reserved. ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ ™ Trademarks used in this text: Dell , the Dell logo, Dell Boomi , Dell Precision , OptiPlex , Latitude , PowerEdge
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Contents 1 About Your System......................................................................................................................9 Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Tower Mode...............................................................................................9 Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Rack Mode...............................................................................................12 LCD Panel Features................................................
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Boot Manager Screen......................................................................................................................................35 UEFI Boot Menu............................................................................................................................................... 36 Embedded System Management............................................................................................................................36 iDRAC Settings Utility........
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Removing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive................................................................................................................... 57 Installing A Hot-Swap Hard Drive.................................................................................................................... 58 Removing A Hard Drive From A Hard-Drive Carrier.........................................................................................59 Installing A Hard Drive Into A Hard-Drive Carrier...........
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Hot Spare Feature............................................................................................................................................ 85 Removing An AC Power Supply....................................................................................................................... 85 Installing An AC Power Supply........................................................................................................................ 86 Wiring Instructions For A DC Power S
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4 Converting The System From Tower Mode To Rack Mode............................................. 129 Safety Instructions................................................................................................................................................129 Preparing A System For Conversion From Tower Mode To Rack Mode .............................................................129 5 Troubleshooting Your System..........................................................................
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LCD Messages......................................................................................................................................................155 Viewing LCD Messages................................................................................................................................. 155 Removing LCD Messages...............................................................................................................................155 System Error 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 Hard-Drive Chassis 9
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Figure 2. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—3.5 Inch Hard-Drive Chassis Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 Optical drive (optional) One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/-RW drive. 2 vFlash media card slot Allows you to insert a vFlash media card. 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. 10
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 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 systems. This button can be pressed using the end of a paper clip. Use this button only if directed to do so by qualified support personnel or by the operating s
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector Up to four PCIe SSDs. NOTE: In systems supporting S110 Software RAID configuration, hard-drive slots 4 through 7 do not support any hard drives and are installed with hard-drive blanks. Front-Panel Features And Indicators—Rack Mode Figure 3. Front-Panel Features and Indicators—2.5 Inch Hard-Drive Chassis NOTE: If your system is a rack, it comes preconfigured with the rack ears and does not have the system feet. Item Indicator, Button, o
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector Up to four Dell PowerEdge Express Flash devices (PCIe SSDs). 2.5 inch hard- Up to thirty two 2.5 inch hot- drive systems swappable hard drives. Up to four PCIe SSDs. NOTE: In systems supporting S110 Software RAID configuration, hard-drive slots 4 through 7 do not support any hard drives and are installed with hard-drive blanks. 4 LCD panel Displays system ID, status information, and system error messages. The LCD lights blue during n
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector the front and the system status indicator on the back flash until one of the buttons is pressed again. Press to toggle the system ID on and off. If the system stops responding during POST, press and hold the system ID button for more than five seconds to enter BIOS progress mode. To reset iDRAC (if not disabled in F2 iDRAC setup) press and hold for more than 15 seconds. 10 Information tag A slide-out label panel, which allows you to recor
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Item Button Description • Press again to stop • Press again to return to default scrolling speed • Press again to repeat the cycle Home Screen The Home screen displays user-configurable information about the system. This screen is displayed during normal system operation when there are no status messages or errors. When the system is in standby mode, the LCD backlight turns off after five minutes of inactivity if there are no error messages. Press one of the three navigation buttons (Select,
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Option Description Power Displays the power output of the system in BTU/hr or Watts. The display format can be configured in the Set home submenu of the Setup menu. Temperature Displays the temperature of the system in Celsius or Fahrenheit. The display format can be configured in the Set home submenu of the Setup menu. Hard-Drive Indicator Patterns Figure 5. Hard-Drive Indicators 1. hard-drive activity indicator (green) 2. hard-drive status indicator (green and amber) NOTE: If the hard drive
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Drive-Status Condition Indicator Pattern (RAID Only) seconds, and off six seconds Back-Panel Features And Indicators Figure 6. Back-Panel Features and Indicators 17
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Item Indicator, Button, or Icon Description Connector 1 PCIe expansion card slots Allows you to connect up to two PCI Express expansion (4) (processor 1) cards and two PERC cards. Two integrated 10/100/1000 Mbps NIC connectors. 2, 3 Ethernet connectors 4 System identification button The identification buttons on the front and back panels can be used to locate a particular system within a rack. When one of these buttons is pressed, the LCD panel on the front and the system status indicator on
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NIC Indicator Codes Figure 7. NIC Indicator 1. link indicator 2. activity indicator Indicator Indicator Code Link and activity The NIC is not connected to the network. indicators are off Link indicator is The NIC is connected to a valid network at its maximum port speed (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps). green Link indicator is The NIC is connected to a valid network at less than its maximum port speed. amber Activity indicator is Network data is being sent or received. blinking green Power Indicator Codes Ea
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Figure 9. DC Power Supply Status Indicator 1. DC power supply status indicator Power Indicator Condition Pattern Not lit Power is not connected. Green The handle/LED indicator lights green indicating that a valid power source is connected to the power supply and that the power supply is operational. Flashing amber Indicates a problem with the power supply. CAUTION: When correcting a power supply mismatch, replace only the power supply with the flashing indicator. Swapping the opposite power su
