Dell E23S Series owner manual LCD Panel Features, Indicator, Button, or Icon, Inch hard drives

Item	Indicator, Button, or	Icon	Description
	Connector

4Video connector

5LCD menu buttons

6LCD panel

7USB connectors (2)

8Enterprise Service Tag

9Hard drives (number of drives will be either 4 or 24 depending on the backplane configurations)

10Slide lock

11Optical drive (optional)

12Rack ears

13vFlash media card slot

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 the button for more than 15 seconds.

Allows you to connect a VGA display to the system.

Allows you to navigate the control panel LCD menu.

Displays system ID, status information, and system error messages. The LCD lights blue during normal system operation. The LCD lights amber when the system needs attention, and the LCD panel displays an error code followed by descriptive text.

NOTE: If the system is connected to a power source and an error is detected, the LCD lights amber regardless of whether the system is turned on or off.

Allows you to connect USB devices to the system. The ports are USB 2.0-compliant.

A slide-out label panel, which allows you to record system information such as Service Tag, NIC, MAC address, and so on, as per your need.

2.5 inch hard drives

NOTE: On the backplane supported Flash devices, there are 3 bays in total. The first two bays are for PCIe Flash devices with two sets of drives labelled 0 through 3. The bay 3 is for SAS drives labelled 0 through 15.

A lock that pops out the ejector handle for the optical drive.

One optional SATA DVD-ROM drive or DVD+/- RW drive.

Allows you to pull the system out of the rack.

Allows you to insert a vFlash media card.

LCD Panel Features

The system's LCD panel provides system information and status and error messages to indicate when the system is operating correctly or when the system needs attention. See System Error Messages for information about specific error codes.

•The LCD backlight lights blue during normal operating conditions and lights amber to indicate an error condition.

•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 button on the LCD panel.

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