Jumpers—A General Explanation
Dell™ PowerEdge™ 850 Systems Installation and Troubleshooting Guide
Disabling a Forgotten Password
This section provides specific information about the system jumpers. It also provides some basic information on jumpers and switches and describes the connectors on the various boards in the system.
Jumpers provide a convenient and reversible way of reconfiguring the circuitry on a printed circuit board. When reconfiguring the system, you may need to change jumper settings on circuit boards or drives.
Jumpers are small blocks on a circuit board with two or more pins emerging from them. Plastic plugs containing a wire fit down over the pins. The wire connects the pins and creates a circuit. To change a jumper setting, pull the plug off its pin(s) and carefully fit it down onto the pin(s) indicated. Figure A-1 shows an example of a jumper.
A jumper is referred to as open or unjumpered when the plug is pushed down over only one pin or if there is no plug at all. When the plug is pushed down over two pins, the jumper is referred to as jumpered. The jumper setting is often shown in text as two numbers, such as 1–2. The number 1 is printed on the circuit board with a triangle so that you can identify each pin number based on the location of pin 1.
Figure A-2 shows the location and default settings of the server-module jumper blocks. See Table A-1 for the designations, default settings, and functions of the jumpers.
Figure A-2 shows the location of the configuration jumpers on the system board. Table A-1 lists the jumper settings.
Figure A-2. System Board Jumpers
Table A-1. System Board Jumper Settings
See Figure A-3 and Table A-2 for the location and description of the system board connectors.
Figure A-3. System Board Connectors
Table A-2. System Board Connectors
The system is available with either a PCIe riser card or a PCI-X/PCIe riser card. See Figure A-4 and Figure A-5 for the location and description of the expansion-card slots on the two riser cards.
Figure A-4. PCIe Riser Card Connectors
Figure A-5. PCI-X/PCIe Riser Card Connectors
The system's software security features include a system password and a setup password, which are discussed in detail in "Using the System Setup Program" in your User's Guide. The password jumper enables these password features or disables them and clears any password(s) currently in use.
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CAUTION: Only trained service technicians are authorized to remove the system cover and access any of the components inside the system. Before performing any procedure, see your Product Information Guide for complete information about safety precautions, working inside the computer and protecting against electrostatic discharge. |
See Figure A-2 to locate the password jumper on the system board.
The existing passwords are not disabled (erased) until the system boots with the password jumper plug removed. However, before you assign a new system and/or setup password, you must install the jumper plug.
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NOTE: If you assign a new system and/or setup password with the jumper plug still removed, the system disables the new password(s) the next time it boots. |
See Figure A-2 to locate the password jumper on the system board.
To assign a new password using the System Setup program, see "Using the System Setup Program" in your User's Guide.
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