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System Overview: Dell™ PowerEdge™ 350 Systems Service Manual

	Overview		Service Features
	System Features		Technical Specifications

Overview

The Dell PowerEdge 350 system uses an Intel® Celeron® or Pentium® III microprocessor and next-generation chip set and memory technology to provide high performance in Internet server and Web hosting application environments.

This section describes the hardware features that simplify servicing of the system. It also describes major hardware and software features of the system.

NOTE: The PowerEdge 350 system is a "headless" system that operates without keyboard, monitor, or mouse. While it is possible to connect these peripherals to the system, it is generally not necessary unless troubleshooting the system.

System Features

The system offers the following major features:

• One Celeron microprocessor with an internal operating frequency of at least 600 megahertz (MHz) or one Pentium III microprocessor with an internal operating frequency of 750 MHz.
  
  A secondary level 2 (L2) cache of 128 kilobytes (KB) (Celeron) or 256 KB (Pentium III) SRAM is included within the microprocessor. Math coprocessor functions are provided by the microprocessor. A separate and external math coprocessor chip set is not used or required.
  
  
• Front-side bus with an external bus speed of 66 MHz (Celeron) or 100 MHz (Pentium III).
  
  
• A minimum of 128 megabytes (MB) of system memory, upgradable to a maximum of 1 GB by installing combinations of 128, or 256 MB unbuffered, registered synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) (dual inline memory modules) DIMMs in the four DIMM sockets on the system board.
  
  
• A flash basic input/output system (BIOS) that can be upgraded if required.
  
  
• One or two 1-inch integrated drive enhanced (IDE) 10, 20, or 40 gigabyte (GB) hard-disk drives.
  
• Slimline 1.44 MB 3.5-inch diskette drive.
  
  
• Slimline CD-ROM drive.

The system board includes the following features:

• One full-length peripheral component interconnect (PCI) slot open.
  
  
• One low-profile PCI slot occupied by a video controller card.
  
  
• An integrated SMSC FDC37B807 input/output (I/O) controller that controls two serial ports, keyboard, mouse, and the diskette drive. The device also provides intelligent power management.
  
  
• Two integrated Intel 82559 PRO/100+ Ethernet controllers, which provide two Ethernet interfaces
  
  
• A Heceta 2 system monitor controller monitors the operation of the system fans as well as critical system voltages and temperatures. The Heceta 2 controller is routed through the SMBus interface. Threshold faults are available by polling the Heceta 2 via the SMBus interface.
  
  
• A Personal System/2 (PS/2)-style keyboard port, dual Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports, and a PS/2-compatible mouse port

The following software is included in the system:

• Video and IDE device drivers that allow the operating system to communicate with attached monitors and IDE devices.
  
  
• The System Setup program is provided for quickly viewing and changing the system configuration information.
  
• Enhanced security features, including a user password and a supervisor password, are available through the System Setup program.
  

Service Features

The system includes a diagnostics CD, which checks for hardware problems (if the system can boot). The diagnostics utility makes troubleshooting and repair easy and effective, in most cases without tools or service aids. For information on using the system diagnostics, see "Basic Troubleshooting."

If you have hard-disk drive problems, use the information in "Basic Troubleshooting" to back up the hard-disk drives, and then reinstall the system software.

The system chassis simplifies removing and replacing components. You can replace the microprocessor or memory modules without removing the system board.

Technical Specifications

There are two optional processors. Your system has one processor.

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