
I/O board internal connectors and jumpers
The following illustration shows the internal connectors and jumpers on the I/O board.
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 | Remote Supervisor Adapter II SlimLine | 
| SAS 1 | Media backplane | 
SAS 2
System serial (COM 1)
SP serial (COM 2)
Light path diagnostic
Boot recovery
Front USB
Battery
1 2 3
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 | Default jumper | 
| 1 2 3 | position | 
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| 1 2 3 | 
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Table 2 describes the function of each 
Table 2. I/O board jumper blocks
| Jumper name | Description | 
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| The default position is pins 1 and 2. Change the position of this | |
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 | jumper to pins 2 and 3 to bypass the  | 
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 | Changing the position of this jumper does not affect the | 
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 | administrator password check if an administrator password is set. If | 
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 | the administrator password is lost, the operator information panel | 
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 | must be replaced. | 
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 | For more information about passwords, see “Passwords” on page | 
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 | 62. | 
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| Boot recovery (BIOS) (J14) | The default position is pins 1 and 2 (use the primary page during | 
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 | startup). Move the jumper to pins 2 and 3 to use the secondary | 
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 | page during startup. | 
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| Wake on LAN® bypass (J15) | The default position is pins 1 and 2. Move the jumper to pins 2 and | 
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 | 3 to prevent a Wake on LAN packet from waking the system when | 
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 | the system is in the  | 
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