HP j6700, j6750, Vizualize J6700 Getting Started Manual

Getting Started Guide

HP VISUALIZE J6700 Workstations

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Manufacturing Part Number: A5990-90024

Edition E0704

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Contents

1. System Overview

Hardware System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Operating System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

Your Workstation’s Front Panel Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

System LCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

System Power Switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Your Workstation’s Rear Panel Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Audio Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

802.3 Network Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

RS-232C Serial Input/Output Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Multi-Mode SCSI Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Power Cord Connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Memory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Monitors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29

USB Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

HP Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

HP Hub for USB Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

The Hot-Plug Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Replacing a Failed Disk Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31

Hot-Plug Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

The Hot-Plug Procedure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

Workstation Conversion Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Desk-Side to Rack-Mount Conversion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Rack-Mount to Desk-Side Conversion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Workstation Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

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2. Getting Your System Running

Information You Need to Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Powering Up Your System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Turning on the Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using Your CD Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Mounting and Unmounting a CD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Verifying the CD Drive Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Conﬁguring the CD Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

3. Troubleshooting Your System

Opening Your Workstation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Common Problems and Solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Dealing with a Boot Failure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Memory Failures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Using the LCD for Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

LCD DIMM Failure Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Using the System Board LEDs for Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Interpreting the LED Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Troubleshooting with System Board LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Troubleshooting Monitor Problems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Running System Veriﬁcation Tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

A. Regulatory Statements

Electromagnetic Compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

VCCI Statement for Class A Products. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

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Korea RRL Statement for Class A Product. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Taiwan Class A Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

Optical and Acoustical Statements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Visible LED Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Laser Safety Statement for a Class 1 Laser Product . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Regulation on Noise Declaration for Machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79

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Figures

Figure 1-1. System Unit Front Panel Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Figure 1-2. LCD Symbols for System Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

Figure 1-3. System Unit Rear Panel Connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Figure 1-4. Audio Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Figure 1-5. Desk-side Cover Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Figure 1-6. Memory Loading Sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Figure 3-1. Desk-side Cover Removal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Figure 3-2. Top View of the Workstation Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

Figure 3-3. System Board LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Figures

Tables

Table 1-1. HP J6700 Hardware System Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

Table 1-2. Example Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

Table 1-3. Workstation Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Table 2-1. System Information You Need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41

Table 3-1. Problems Powering Up the System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Table 3-2. Problems Loading and Booting the Operating System . . . . .60

Table 3-3. Problems with the 802.3 Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Table 3-4. Problems Using a Hard Disk Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Table 3-5. Problems Using the CD Drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

Table 3-6. Description of the LCD Message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Table 3-7. Interpreting the System Board LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Table 3-8. Blink Sequences for the FANS LED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Table 3-9. Solutions for the Non-Default LED States. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Tables

Preface

This Getting Start Guide describes how to use your J6700 workstation. This manual assumes that you have installed your computer as

described on the J6000 Quick-Install Poster.

Safety and Regulatory Statements

See Appendix A for the safety and regulatory statements that apply to the J6700 workstation.

Installation Notice

Products designated in the Hewlett-Packard price list as customer installable can be installed using the instructions provided with the product. If you have elected to have the product installed by our ﬁeld personnel, you will be charged for this service as covered under the standard terms and conditions. For more information, please go to this web site:

www.hp.com/workstations

Related Manuals

For more information, refer to the following documents:

• Common Desktop Environment (CDE) User’s Guide

• Conﬁguring HP-UX for Peripherals

• HP-UX System Administration Tasks

• HP CDE Getting Started Guide

• Managing Systems and Workgroups

• Using HP-UX.

• Using Your HP Workstation

• Technical Reference for the J6700 Note that the documents listed above can be viewed with a web browser

using this URL:

http://www.docs.hp.com

Revision History

The revision history for each edition of the manual is listed below:

Edition Revision History

E0501 First Printing

Problems, Questions, and Suggestions

If you have any problems or questions with our hardware, software, or documentation, please contact either your HP Response Center or your local HP representative. If you have access to a web browser, you can get the latest software and hardware patches at the following URL:

http://us-support.external.hp.com/

Documentation Conventions

Unless otherwise noted in the text, this guide uses the following symbolic conventions.

user-supplied values Italic words or characters in syntax and command

descriptions represent values that you must supply. Italics are also used in text for emphasis.

screen display Information that the system displays, commands that

you must use literally, and path names appear in this typeface.

Enter

Keycaps are presented with a special keycap font as shown in the left column. (In this document, we refer to the Enter key. On your keyboard, the key may be labeled either Enter or Return.)

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Precautions

Electrostatic charges can damage the integrated circuits on printed circuit boards. To prevent such damage from occurring, observe the following precautions during board unpacking and installation:

• Work on a static-free mat.

• Wear a static strap to ensure that any accumulated electrostatic

charge is discharged from your body to ground.

• Create a common ground for the equipment you are working on by

connecting the static-free mat, static strap, and peripheral units to that piece of equipment.

• Keep uninstalled printed circuit boards in their protective antistatic

bags.

• Handle printed circuit boards by their edges, once you have removed

them from their protective antistatic bags.

1 System Overview

This chapter introduces the J6700 workstation. Its purpose is to familiarize you with your workstation and its controls and indicators.

System Overview

Instructions in this chapter assume that you are running the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on the HP-UX 11.0 operating system and the Workstation Additional Core Enhancement (ACE) for HP-UX 11.0 (November, 1999) or the HP-UX 11i operating system and the Hardware Enablement Bundle (HWE) for HP-UX 11i (June, 2001).

The topics included in this chapter are:

• Hardware System Overview

• Operating System Overview

• Your Workstation’s Front Panel

• Your Workstation’s Rear Panel

• Memory

• Monitors

• USB Connectors

• Workstation Characteristics.

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Hardware System Overview

To help you gain a better understanding of the HP VISUALIZE J Class workstation, Table 1-1 provides the workstation’s hardware system features.

Table 1-1 HP J6700 Hardware System Features

Workstation Feature Description

Processor Two PA8700 microprocessors with operating

frequencies of 750 MHz. Each processor has a 0.75 MB instruction cache and a 1.5 MB data cache.

Monitors PC compatible monitors

System Overview

Hardware System Overview

Optional Graphics Supported graphics devices:

•HPVISUALIZE-fx

•HPVISUALIZE-fxe

Main Memory This workstation has sixteen memory slots in

which you can mix and match pairs of either 512 MB or 1GB DIMMs. The minimum memory you can conﬁgure is 1 GB and the maximum is 16 GBs.

Internal Storage Devices Two Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI

hard disk drives (one standard and one optional) and one optional ATAPI slim-line CD drive. Note that the internal SCSI bus is independent of the external SCSI bus.

Standard Network 802.3 TP (Twisted Pair) LAN connector

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Table 1-1 HP J6700 Hardware System Features

Workstation Feature Description

Standard I/O Connectors Standard workstation I/O ports:

• Low-Voltage Differential (LVD) SCSI connector (multi-mode), one. The SCSI bus for this connector is independent of the internal SCSI bus.

• Universal Serial Bus (USB) connectors, two

• Serial interface connector (RS-232C), two

• Audio connectors (line input, line output, headphone, and microphone)

PCI slots

Slot 1: 64 Bit, 3.3V, 66MHz Slot 2: 64 Bit, 3.3V, 66MHz Slot 3: 64 Bit, 3.3V, 66MHz

Remote Power-on Allows you to turn on your workstation from

a remote system.

1. There are no primary and secondary card slots in the PCI bay area of this workstation.

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Operating System Overview

Your workstation uses the HP-UX 11.0 operating system and the Workstation Additional Core Enhancements (ACE) for HP-UX 11.0 (November, 1999) or the HP-UX 11i operating system and the Hardware Enablement Bundle (HWE) for HP-UX 11i (June, 2001). Instant ignition systems (systems with preloaded software) have X-Windows, and HP CDE, Hewlett-Packard’s graphical user interface, installed and conﬁgured.

Please refer to the “Instant Ignition System Information” sheet that came with your system for details on conﬁguration.

If your Instant Ignition system does not have the kernel preconﬁgured with all of the device drivers, you need to refer to the manual Managing Systems and Workgroups to conﬁgure your kernel.

If you have any questions about Instant Ignition, refer to the document Using Your HP Workstation for more information.

Note that both of the documents mentioned in the previous paragraphs can be found on the world-wide web at the following Uniform Resource Locator (URL):

http://www.docs.hp.com/

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Your Workstation’s Front Panel Controls

Before powering on your system, you should become familiar with the system unit controls. Figure 1-1 shows the system unit front panel controls.

Figure 1-1 System Unit Front Panel Controls

LCD

Power Switch

System LCD

The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) is located on the front panel. The LCD has two 16 characters lines. The LCD displays messages about the state of the system, including chassis codes. The symbols in Figure 1-2 appear in the LCD ifyou have the HP-UX 11.0 or 11i operating system booted on your system. They represent the different system activities shown:

Figure 1-2 LCD Symbols for System Activities

Operating system running (heart beat) Disk access in progress

Network receive in progress Network transmit in progress

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Your Workstation’s Front Panel Controls

System Power Switch

The power switch is used to turn the system unit on and off. When you turn your workstation off, the operating system executes an automatic shutdown -q command. This prevents any damage to programs and data on your system disk. Turning the power switch back on again automatically boots up the HP-UX 11.0 or 11i operating system if your system has been conﬁgured to auto boot.

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Your Workstation’s Rear Panel Connectors

This section describes the following connectors on the system unit’s rear panel:

• Power cord connector

• Two serial ports

• 802.3 TP (Twisted Pair) LAN connector

• USB connectors

• Single-Ended/Low-Voltage Differential SCSI connector

• 15-Pin D-Sub connector for optional graphics card

• Audio connectors (see the section “Audio Connectors”)

NOTE To maintain FCC/EMI compliance, verify that all cables are fully seated

and properly fastened.

Figure 1-3 shows the locations of the connectors on the system unit’s rear panel.

Figure 1-3 System Unit Rear Panel Connectors

Serial Port 1

Serial Port 2

Power Connector

TOC

LAN Connector

USB Connectors

Audio Connectors

SE/LVD SCSI Connector

IO Card Slots

15-Pin D-Sub

Connector (optional)

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Audio Connectors

Your workstationhas audio input and outputcapability through external input and output connectors on the rear panel and through an internal speaker. The rear panel contains the line input jack, line output jack, microphone jack, and headphone jack connectors. See Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4 Audio Connectors

System Overview

Your Workstation’s Rear Panel Connectors

Line Output Jack

Line Input Jack

The audio connectors are standard stereo audio mini-jacks.

Headphone Jack

Microphone Jack

802.3 Network Connectors

Your workstation has a built-in Twisted Pair (TP) connector for the 802.3 (ETHERNET) or 10 BaseT/100 BaseT network. Your workstation will automatically select the correct network setting.

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