Table of contents

11

Functions

11-1

 

11.1

Overview

11-1

 

11.2

Safecard on Motherboard (SOM)

11-2

 

11.3

Temperature monitoring

11-4

 

11.4

Watchdog (WD)

11-5

 

11.5

Fan monitoring

11-6

12

Maintenance and service

12-1

 

12.1

Servicing

12-1

 

12.2

Replacement parts

12-3

 

12.3

Separating the control unit from the computer unit

12-4

 

12.4

Installing and removing hardware components

12-7

 

12.4.1

Repairs

12-7

 

12.4.2

Open the device

12-8

 

12.4.3

Installing and removing memory modules

12-10

 

12.4.4

Installing PCI / AT cards

12-12

 

12.4.4.1

Notes on the modules

12-12

 

12.4.4.2

Installing / removing expansion modules

12-13

 

12.4.4.3

Exchanging the RAID controller PCI card

12-15

 

12.4.5

Disk drives

12-16

 

12.4.5.1

Options of installing disk drives

12-16

 

12.4.5.2

Installing / removing a drive bay

12-18

 

12.4.5.3

Removing and installing an optical drive

12-21

 

12.4.5.4

Removing and installing a 3.5" hard disk

12-24

 

12.4.6

Replacing the backup battery

12-25

 

12.4.7

Removing/Installing the Power Supply

12-27

 

12.5

Installing Software

12-29

 

12.5.1

General installation procedure

12-29

 

12.5.2

Setting up the partitions for Windows operating systems

12-30

 

12.5.3

Compatibility of the Restore DVD

12-32

 

12.5.4

Restoring the factory state of the software using the Restore DVD

12-33

 

12.5.5

Installing Microsoft Windows operating systems

12-35

 

12.5.5.1

Operating system not installed

12-35

 

12.5.5.2

Booting from the Recovery CD

12-36

 

12.5.5.3

Installing the Microsoft Windows operating system (not for RAID)

12-37

 

12.5.5.4

Installing the Microsoft Windows operating system (for RAID)

12-38

 

12.5.6

Installing individual drivers

12-39

 

12.5.7

Operation of two hard disks

12-40

 

12.5.7.1

2 HDD system

12-40

 

12.5.7.2

RAID system with Promise Fast Track Controller TX2300

12-41

 

12.5.7.3

Installing the RAID Controller software

12-44

 

12.5.8

Installing burner and DVD software

12-45

 

12.5.9

Backing up the hard disk

12-46

13

Alarm, error and system messages

13-1

 

13.1

Boot error messages

13-1

 

13.2

Introduction to the BIOS beep codes

13-3

 

13.3

BIOS beep codes

13-5

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