Contents 7
Troubleshooting a USB Device . . . . . . . . . . 102
Troubleshooting a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Responding to a Systems Management Software
AlertMessage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting a Wet System . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Troubleshooting a Damaged System . . . . . . . . . . 105
Troubleshooting the System Battery . . . . . . . . . . 106
Troubleshooting the Power Supply . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems. . . . . . . 107
Troubleshooting a Fan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Troubleshooting System Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Troubleshooting the Microprocessor. . . . . . . . . . 114
5 Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . 117
Using Dell PowerEdge Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . 117
System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
When to Use the System Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . 118
Running the System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
From the Utility Partition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
From Removable Bootable Media . . . . . . . . . 118
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