Dell Precision Workstation 450 Manual de usuario

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Dell Precision™ Workstations 450 and 650

User’s Guide

This document describes the features and operation of your computer. This document is

stored on your computer hard drive. For information on other documentation included with

your computer, see "Finding Information for Your Computer."

Notes, Notices, and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your

computer.

NOTICE: A NOTICE indicates either potential damage to hardware or loss of data and tells you

how to avoid the problem.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates a potential for property damage, personal

injury, or death.

Abbreviations and Acronyms

For a complete list of abbreviations and acronyms, see the Glossary.

If you purchased a Dell™ n Series computer, any references in this document to Microsoft®

Windows® operating systems are not applicable.

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other than its own.

Models: WHL and WHM

April 2003 P/N 6T345 Rev. A03

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Contents

1Information About Your Computer

Finding Information for Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Caring for Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

2About Your Computer—Dell Precision 650

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Front View of the Computer (Doors Open) . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Opening the Drive Door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

3About Your Computer—Dell Precision 450

Front View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Back View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Inside Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

System Board Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6Contents

4Advanced Features

LegacySelect Technology Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Manageability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Alert Standard Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Dell OpenManage IT Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Dell OpenManage Client Instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chassis Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Padlock Ring and Security Cable Slot . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Password Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

System Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Setup Password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Disabling a Forgotten Password and Setting a New Password . 45

System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Entering System Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

System Setup Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Boot Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

System Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Jumper Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Power Button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

TAPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Installing a TAPI-Compliant Modem Card . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Installing a TAPI Sound Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Hyper-Threading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

IEEE 1394 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

U320 SCSI Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Integrated Striping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Creating a Stripe Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Deleting a Stripe Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Activating a Stripe Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Troubleshooting the Stripe Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

5Removing and Installing Parts—Dell Precision 650

6Drives

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

IDE Drive Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

SCSI Device Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

SCSI ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Device Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

SCSI Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Removing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Installing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Removing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

7Microprocessor Airflow Shroud

Removing the Microprocessor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 100

Installing the Microprocessor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 101

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8Removing and Installing Parts—Dell Precision 450

9Opening the Computer Cover

10 Memory

Memory Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Removing a Memory Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Adding a Memory Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

11 Cards

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Installing a Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Removing a Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

13 Drives

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

IDE Drive Addressing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Connecting Drive Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

SCSI Device Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

SCSI ID Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Device Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

SCSI Cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Removing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Installing a Hard Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

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Removing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Installing a Floppy Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Removing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Installing a CD/DVD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

14 Microprocessor Airflow Shroud

Removing the Microprocessor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 156

Installing the Microprocessor Airflow Shroud . . . . . . . . . . 157

15 Microprocessor

Installation Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Installing the Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160

Removing the Microprocessor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

VRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Installing a VRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Removing a VRM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

16 Battery

17 Closing the Computer Cover

18 Solving Problems

Troubleshooting Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Battery Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

Card Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181

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Drive Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Floppy drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

CD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Problems writing to a CD-RW drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

DVD drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Hard drive problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Dropped or Damaged Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187

E-Mail, Modem, and Internet Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

General Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

The computer stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

A program stops responding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

A program crashes repeatedly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

A program is designed for an earlier Windows operating system 200

A solid blue screen appears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Other software problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Other technical problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

General hardware problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

IEEE 1394 Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Keyboard Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Memory Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

Microprocessor Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205

Mouse Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Network Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Power Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208

Printer Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Serial or Parallel Device Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Sound and Speaker Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

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