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Jumpers

Dell™ PowerEdge™ 4600 Systems Service Manual

	Overview
	Jumpers—A General Explanation
	System Board Jumpers
	Disabling a Forgotten Password

Overview

This section provides specific information about the jumpers on the system board. It also provides some basic information on jumpers and describes the connectors and sockets on the various boards in the system.

Jumpers—A General Explanation

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 the system board. You may also need to change jumper settings on expansion cards or drives.

Jumpers

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 1 shows an example of a jumper.

Figure 1. Example Jumpers

CAUTION: Make sure the system is turned off before you change a jumper setting. Otherwise, damage to the system or unpredictable results may occur.

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 so that you can identify each pin number based on the location of pin 1.

Figure 2 shows the location and default settings of the jumper blocks on the system board. See Table 1 for the designations, default settings, and functions of the system's jumpers.

System Board Jumpers

Figure 2 shows the location of the configuration jumpers on the system board. Table 1 lists the function of these jumpers.

Figure 2. System Board Jumpers

Table 1. System-Board Jumper Settings 

Jumper	Setting		Description
SPREAD			Enables spread-spectrum clocking for EMI reduction (do not change).
PASSWD		(default)	The password feature is enabled. The password feature is disabled.
NVRAM_CLR		(default)	The configuration settings are retained at system boot. The configuration settings are cleared at next system boot. (If the configuration settings become corrupted to the point where the system will not boot, install the jumper plug and boot the system. Remove the jumper before restoring the configuration information.)
RSVD			Reserved (do not change).
jumpered  unjumpered

Disabling a Forgotten Password

To disable a forgotten password, see "Using the System Setup Program."

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