Contents 9
Troubleshooting the System Battery. . . . . . . . . . . 160
Troubleshooting Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems. . . . . . . 161
Troubleshooting a Fan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Troubleshooting System Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Troubleshooting an Internal USB Key. . . . . . . . . . 164
Troubleshooting an Optical Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Troubleshooting an External Tape Drive . . . . . . . . 166
Troubleshooting a Hard Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Troubleshooting a SAS or SAS RAID Controller . . . . 168
Troubleshooting Expansion Cards. . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Troubleshooting the Processors. . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
5 Running the System Diagnostics. . . . . . 173
Using Dell™ Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Embedded System Diagnostics Features . . . . . . . . 173
When to Use the Embedded
System Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Running the Embedded System Diagnostics . . . . . . 174
Embedded System Diagnostics
Testing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
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