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Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2600 Systems
Installation and
Troubleshooting Guide
Other Documents You May Need
Obtaining Technical Assistance
Your system is a high-speed server that offers significant service and upgrade features. The system includes the following service features to make troubleshooting and repair easy and effective:
- Embedded remote access (ERA) hardware, which monitors temperatures and voltages throughout the system and notifies you if the system overheats, if a system cooling fan malfunctions, or if a power supply fails
- Hot-pluggable cooling fans
- Hot-pluggable power supplies
- System diagnostics, which checks for hardware problems (if the system can boot)
System upgrade options are offered, including:
- An additional microprocessor
- Additional system memory
- An additional hot-pluggable power supply to allow AC redundancy
- A variety of PCI and PCI-X expansion-card options (including RAID controller cards)
- An integrated RAID controller that can be activated with an additional memory module, key, and battery
Besides this Installation and Troubleshooting Guide, the following documentation is included with your system:
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The System Information document provides important safety and regulatory information. Warranty
information might be included within this document or as a separate document.
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- The Setting Up Your System sheet provides general instructions for setting up your system.
- The User's Guide describes system features and technical specifications, the system setup program, and software support utilities.
- The system management software documentation describes the features, requirements, installation, and basic operation of the systems management software. See the software's online help for information about the alert messages issued by the software.
- Documentation included with any options you purchased separately from the system, which includes information that you need to configure and install these options in your system.
You may also have the following documents.
- The Rack Installation Guide if you ordered a rack-mountable system. This documentation describes how to unpack, set up, and install your system in a rack.
- Operating system documentation if you ordered an operating system with your system. This documentation describes how to install (if necessary), configure, and use the operating system software.
- Documentation updates are sometimes included with the system to describe changes to the system or software.
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NOTE: Always read these updates before consulting any other documentation because the
updates often contain information that supersedes the information in the other documents.
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- Technical information files—sometimes called "readme" files—may be installed on the hard drive to provide last-minute updates about technical changes to the system or advanced technical reference material intended for experienced users or technicians.
If at any time you do not understand a procedure described in this guide or if your system does not perform as expected, a number of tools are provided to help you. For more information on these help tools, see "Getting Help."
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