Manual for dell power edge 830 - Dell Computers & Internet

What Dell system do you have? The OptiPlex light diagnostics are given here: http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/SLN284978/en . Prior to 2005, they used the ABCD labels. This site, http://www.pctechbytes.com/dell/dell-diagnostic-lights/ , has some of the common codes. As far as I know, the Poweredge 830 didn't use these diagnostic lights.

Later, Dell switched to numerically labeled lights. For the T3610 and similar workstations, the lighting codes are given here: http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN288973/en?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04 . For the R200, see http://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/SLN293264/ . Scroll to the last section.

I hope these help. Otherwise, please post a comment your server model and the light combination that you are seeing. I may be able to assist you with the error code.

Cindy Wells

http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_poweredge/poweredge-830_User%27s%20Guide10_de-de.pdf

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A and C yellow = Videocard

When the motherboard boots up, it makes 'beep's to tell you information about the health/condition of various motherboard components. Usually a short single beep indicates "all is goog" but you hear anything else, like multiple short beeps, the manual generally interprets the beep pattern into plain language message as to what part failed. The failure of ANY part that is physically on the mortherboard, not plugged into a socket, usually mean
the motherboard has failed. It's possible, but not easy to replace mother board components. They are small, the soldering joints are small and if you don't know how to solder/unsolder on printed circuit boards generally you'll do more damage than was previously the case before you tried. Just identifying the specific part can be challenging, again, especially if you've not done this level of precision work.

The solution: get a new motherboard, and while you are at it, get a new CPU and memory sticks if you want to be on the safe side. Not all CPU's fit every motherboard, and memory sticks come in several configurations. Anytime I replaced a bad board, I got the whole package and asked the technician to assemble them and let mee see it boot up at least the point where it requests a proper boot media, such as a harddrive or bootable DVD/CD.

The most common issue, when the DC jack in the laptop developes bad connections causing the computer to be completely dead or intermittent operation.

You can conveniently crack open the case without tools by swinging open the door that covers the front bezel, using your fingers to untwist a setscrew that lies underneath, then sliding off the side panel

Thats actually a troubleshooting code call dell to find out what needs to be replaced


Please vote me a 10 when this works

its the cover switch. there is a small push switch on the front panel that detects if the front cover has been removed, either the switch is defective, or the cover is not seating properly to close the switch.

Service Manual for dell latitude D 830 can be downloaded from :

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd830/en/index.htm

in order to remove the keyboard
1. remove the hinge covers and then take the grey strip out where you have the power buttons also
then you will see the 2 screws for the keyboard .
Then take the keyboard out .

rest all the details ar in the manual .

NTDETECT is the system boot file. Something has corrupted it. There is no way to boot the system if it can't read this file. If you have the windows disk, boot from that. The easiest thing to do if you have the disk is just to re-install windows. If you do an upgrade over top of itself, you will probably save your data. If you don't have a windows disk, get one.....