Hard Disk Drive Activity Light Does Not Light

If you have installed one or more hard disk drives in your system, check the following:

Are the power and signal cables to the drive properly installed?

Are all relevant switches and jumpers on the hard drive and adapter board set correctly?

Is the onboard IDE controller enabled? (IDE hard drives only)?

Is the hard disk drive properly configured?

NOTE

Front panel hard disk LED indicates IDE and SCSI devices: The hard disk drive activity light on the front panel lights when either an IDE hard disk drive, or a SCSI device controlled by the onboard SCSI host controller, is in use. This LED does not display CD-ROM activity.

CD-ROM Drive Activity Light Does Not Light

Check the following:

Are the power and signal cables to the CD-ROM drive properly installed?

Are all relevant switches and jumpers on the drive set correctly?

Is the drive properly configured?

Is the onboard IDE controller enabled?

NOTE

Front panel hard disk LED indicates IDE and SCSI devices: The hard disk drive activity light on the front panel lights when either an IDE hard disk drive, or a SCSI device controlled by the onboard SCSI host controller, is in use. This LED does not display CD-ROM activity.

Network Problems

If you have network problems, consult the documentation that came with the network board you purchased for this server.

PCI Installation Tips

Some common PCI tips are listed here.

Certain drivers may require interrupts that are not shared with other PCI drivers. The SSU can be used to adjust the interrupt numbers for PCI devices. For certain drivers, it may be necessary to alter settings so that interrupts are not shared.

Check PCI interrupt interdependencies among slots and onboard devices.

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